History of Knowledge

Readings, questions and assignments, week by week. Readings on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Week 5 12–18 October

Fri 16 Oct

2002 Print & manuscript

An Unacknowledged Revolution Revisited

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein · Week 5, Friday 16 October

American Historical Review 107, pp. 87–105

Fri 16 Oct

1998 Print & manuscript

The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making

Adrian Johns · Week 5, Friday 16 October

University of Chicago Press, pp. 1–6

Fri 16 Oct

2002 Print & manuscript

How to Acknowledge a Revolution

Adrian Johns · Week 5, Friday 16 October

American Historical Review 107, pp. 106–125

Week 6 19–25 October

Wed 21 Oct

2010 Print & manuscript

Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age

Ann Blair · Week 6, Wednesday 21 October

Yale University Press, pp. 22–61

Wed 21 Oct

2019 Print & manuscript

Papering the Household: Paper, Recipes, and Everyday Technologies in Early Modern England

Elaine Leong · Week 6, Wednesday 21 October

In C. Bittel, E. Leong & C. von Oertzen (eds.), Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge (University of Pittsburgh Press), pp. 32–45

Wed 21 Oct

2011 Print & manuscript

Marginalia, Commonplaces, and Correspondence: Scribal Exchange in Early Modern Science

Elizabeth Yale · Week 6, Wednesday 21 October

Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 42, pp. 193–202