Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship. Volume II: Historical Chronology (Oxford-Warburg Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (616 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199206015 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 784 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This book describes the later life of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), the most original scholar of the late Renaissance. Volume I of this study was published in 1983, and received wide critical attention.. It concentrates on his efforts to date the main events of ancient and medieval history, a study that required him to use both astronomical data and philological methods
Anthony Grafton is at Princeton University.
A Masterpiece of Scholarship & Erudition - but these are "print-on-demand" copies. It's pointless to shower more praise upon this already classic work of incredible erudition and unusual scholarly depth. Unfortunately, Amazon is selling poorly produced print-on-demand copies: cheap paper bound in what is ironically called "perfect binding" (individual pages glued together), which eventually falls apart, with the shabbiest looking glossy cardboard one can imagine for covers. It's a disgrace that Oxford University Press has the nerve to produce such low-quality print-on-demand copies, and then charge the full price of the originals. And it's unaccept
Praise for Volume I: "A work of rare excellence, a masterpiece that fuses fastidious philological analysis and deft intellectual synthesis and that addresses the traditional concerns of the classicist and the historian with equal sophistication, and high accuracy."--Speculum"Grafton has done a signal service to Renaissance studiesanyone interested in late Renaissance humanism or in the history of historical writing cannot afford to ignore it."--Renaissance Studies