Worlds made by words : scholarship and community in the modern West / Anthony Grafton.

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Introduction -- A sketch map of a lost continent: the republic of letters -- A humanist crosses boundaries: Alberti on ´historia´ and ´istoria´ -- A contemplative scholar: Trithemius conjures the past -- The world in a room: Renaissance histories of art and nature -- Where was Salomon´s house? Ecclesiastical history and the intellectual origins of Bacon´s new Atlantis -- Chronology, controversy, and community in the republic of letters: the case of Kepler -- The universal language: splendors and sorrows of Latin in the modern world -- Entrepreneurs of the soul, impresarios of learning: the Jesuits -- In no man´s land: Christian learning and the Jews -- The history of ideas: precept and practice, 1950-2000 and beyond -- The Messrs. Casaubon: Isaac Casaubon and Mark Pattison -- Momigliano´s method and the Warburg Institute: studies in his middle period -- The public intellectual and the American university: Robert Morss Lovett -- The public intellectual and the private sphere: Arendt and Eichmann at the dinner table -- Codex in crisis: the book dematerializes -- Notes -- Sources -- Index.