Gabriel Harvey and the history of reading / essays by Lisa Jardine and others ; edited by Anthony Grafton, Nicholas Popper and William Sherman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jardine, Lisa, author.

Contributor:

Grafton, Anthony, editor.

Popper, Nicholas, 1977- editor.

Sherman, Bill, 1966- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harvey, Gabriel, 1550?-1631--Books and reading.

Harvey, Gabriel.

Books and reading--History.

Books and reading.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 406 pages : facsimiles ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : UCL Press, 2024.

Summary:

"An accessible exploration of the methodology of the history of reading. Few articles in the humanities have had the impact of Lisa Jardine and Anthony Grafton's seminal "Studied for Action," a study of the reading practices of Elizabethan polymath and prolific annotator Gabriel Harvey. Their excavation of the setting, methods, and ambitions of Harvey's encounters with his books ignited a new interdisciplinary field, the history of reading, which quickly became one of the most exciting corners of the scholarly cosmos. A generation inspired by the model of Harvey fanned out across the world's libraries and archives, seeking to reveal the many creative, unexpected, and curious ways that individuals throughout history responded to texts, and how these interpretations, in turn, illuminate past worlds. Three decades on, Harvey's example and Jardine's work remain central to cutting-edge scholarship in the history of reading. By uniting "Studied for Action" with new studies on Gabriel Harvey, some of which are published here for the first time, by Jardine, Grafton, and the scholars they have influenced, this collection provides a unique lens on the place of marginalia in textual, intellectual, and cultural history. The chapters capture subsequent work on Harvey and map the fields opened by Jardine and Grafton's original article, collectively offering a posthumous tribute to Lisa Jardine and an authoritative overview of the History of Reading."--From the Publisher.

Contents:

List of figures

List of contributors

Acknowledgments - Note on republications

Note on translations

Foreword : Lisa Jardine and UCL's Centre for Editing Lives and Letters / Robyn Adams and Matthew Symonds

Preface : Lisa Jardine and the history of reading / Anthony Grafton

Introduction / Anthony Grafton, Nicholas Popper and William Sherman

'Studied for action': how Gabriel Harvey read his livy / Lisa Jardine and Anthony Grafton

Gabriel Harvey : exemplary Ramist and pragmatic humanist / Lisa Jardine

Purpose-specific political reading with the Leicester circle / Lisa Jardine and William Sherman

The English polydaedali : how Gabriel Harvey read late Tudor London / Nicholas Popper

Generative genealogies, reading practices and the transformation of late Renaissance mathematics / Nicholas Popper with Anthony Grafton

How Harvey used his Augustine / Arnoud Visser

Pragmatic readers : knowledge transactions and scholarly services in late Elizabethan England / Lisa Jardine and William Sherman

Studied for disputation : how Gabriel Harvey read his library / Earle Havens

What is an annotator? Renaissance marginalia as a textual form / Sara Miglietti

Writing about reading : on early modern annotation practice and the future of book history / Frederic Clark

'Studied for action' revisited / Lisa Jardine

Epilogue : from Moore Smith's Marginalia to the archaeology of reading and back / Anthony Grafton

Appendix : Gabriel Harvey's library of annotated books: an updated bibliography with known locations / Earle Havens.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading.

ISBN:

1800081677

9781800081673

9781800081666

1800081669

OCLC:

1394973800