← History of Knowledge

Timeline

All the literature in order of (original) publication, with events for context.

15th century

  1. c. 1455

    Gutenberg Bible printed in Mainz

    Print & manuscript

16th century

  1. 1568–1572

    Antwerp Polyglot Bible printed by Plantin

    Humanism Print & manuscript
  2. 1599

    Menocchio burned by the Roman Inquisition

    The Friulian miller at the centre of Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms.

    Historiography Print & manuscript

20th century

  1. 1976

    Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

    Further reading

    Historiography Print & manuscript
  2. 1998

    Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making

    Week 5, Friday 16 October

    Print & manuscript

21st century

  1. 2002

    Adrian Johns, How to Acknowledge a Revolution

    Week 5, Friday 16 October

    Print & manuscript
  2. 2002

    Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, An Unacknowledged Revolution Revisited

    Week 5, Friday 16 October

    Print & manuscript
  3. 2010

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

    Week 6, Wednesday 21 October

    Print & manuscript
  4. 2011

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

    Week 6, Wednesday 21 October

    Print & manuscript
  5. 2019

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

    Week 6, Wednesday 21 October

    Print & manuscript