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In Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book, Ian Maclean investigates intellectual life through the prism of the history of publishing, academic in
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This volume is the first to adopt systematically a comparative approach to the role of ancient texts and traditions in early modern scholarship, science, medici
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This open access volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations of scientific knowledge in the early modern period. It investigates th
The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy
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A pathbreaking history of early modern education argues that Europe’s oldest university, often seen as a bastion of traditionalism, was in fact a vibrant site