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New Horizons in Early Modern Scholarship

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The study of early modern Europe has long been one of the most dynamic fields in the historical profession. Many of the most creative and influential movements in historical scholarship originated as methods for examining the puzzle of Europe between 1450 and 1750, when the compelling paradoxes and features of the world we now inhabit began to coalesce. The essays in New Horizons in Early Modern Scholarship examine recent developments in historiography both to exhibit the field's continuing vibrancy and to highlight emerging challenges to long-assumed truths. The book reveals how the histories of knowledge and media illuminate fundamental features of early modern Europe and its place within the larger world and raise demanding questions about them. Essays examine * when (and why) key ideas and intellectual practices arose, circulated through scholarly culture, and gave way to subsequent forms * the process and experience of globalization-and 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 * the development of revolutionary historical and scientific sensibilities * connections between disciplines, types of sources, time periods, and places * what lessons these new perspectives on early modern Europe furnish for scholars today 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. Ranging from the adaptation of Chinese porcelains and the translation of Nahua natural histories to the methods of producing texts and textiles, this book makes rewarding, thought-provoking reading for historians of all stripes. 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
Ann Blair (CAMBRIDGE, MA) is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor in the Department of History at Harvard University. She is the author of Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age and the coeditor of Physico-theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650-1750. Nicholas Popper (WILLIAMSBURG, VA) is an associate professor of history at the College of William & Mary. He is the author of Walter Ralegh's "History of the World" and the Historical Culture of the Late Renaissance.
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
An illuminating exploration of the new frontiers-and unsettled geographical, temporal, and thematic borders-of early modern European history.
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