Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading, Essays by Lisa Jardine and others

Year

2024

Publisher

UCL Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-80008-165-9

Link

Last Update

19-May-2026

Keywords

History ; Language & Literature

Description

The origins of this book – and, for that matter, much of the current interest in marginalia – can be traced back to Princeton in the late 1980s.¹ Lisa Jardine spent the spring semester of 1988 as a visiting fellow at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center in Princeton’s History Department. Then as now, the fellows of the Center worked on a common theme, and that year’s subject was the transmission of culture.² Lisa formally applied to do research for the book that would later be published as Erasmus, Man of Letters.³ But the most immediate and enduring outcome of her...