New horizons in early modern scholarship

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New horizons in early modern scholarship

edited by Ann Blair and Nicholas Popper

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-263) and index

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An illuminating exploration of the new frontiers-and unsettled geographical, temporal, and thematic borders-of early modern European history. The study of early modern Europe has long been the source of some of the most creative and influential movements in historical scholarship. New Horizons for Early Modern European Scholarship explores recent developments in historiography both to exhibit the field's continuing vibrancy and to highlight emerging challenges to long-assumed truths. Essays examine * how key ideas and intellectual practices arose, circulated through scholarly culture, and gave way to subsequent forms * Europe's transforming relationship with Asia, the Americas, Africa, and the rest of the world * how overlooked evidence illuminates vital but obscured people, practices, and objects * connections between disciplines, types of sources, time periods, and places Opening up emerging possibilities, this book demonstrates that early modern European scholarship remains a source for groundbreaking historical insights and methodologies that would benefit the study of any time and place. Contributors: Alexander Bevilacqua, Ann Blair, Daniela Bleichmar, William J. Bulman, Frederic Clark, Anthony Grafton, Jill Kraye, Yuen-Gen Liang, Elizabeth McCahill, Nicholas Popper, Amanda Wunder

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Introduction Nicholas Popper and Ann Blair Part I. Chronological Horizons Chapter 1. Humanism between Middle Ages and Renaissance Elizabeth McCahill Chapter 2. From Renaissance to Enlightenment William J. Bulman Part II. Geographical Horizons Chapter 3. New Worlds, New Texts: Rewriting the Book of Nature Daniela Bleichmar Chapter 4. Beyond East and West Alexander Bevilacqua Part III. Disciplinary and Generic Horizons Chapter 5. Reconfiguring the Boundary between Humanism and Philosophy Jill Kraye Chapter 6. The Varieties of Historia in Early Modern Europe Frederic Clark Chapter 7. The Knowledge of Early Modernity: New Histories of Sciences and the Humanities Nicholas Popper Part IV. Evidentiary Horizons Chapter 8. Material Histories: Museum Objects and the Material Culture of Early Modern Europe Amanda Wunder Chapter 9. New Knowledge Makers Ann Blair Chapter 10. History, Historians, and the Production of Societies in the Past and Future Yuen-Gen Liang Epilogue Anthony Grafton List of Contributors Acknowledgments Bibliography Index Color illustrations follow page XXX

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