Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400-1800

摘要

The genre of conference proceedings is a dying one, and in many cases for good reason. Too often they stage a cacophony of scholarly voices-some of them playing their discipline skillfully, others following a solitary, slightly offbeat tune far away from the crowd, and yet others missing the tone of the orchestration altogether. However, Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, which presents the fruits of a scholarly workshop, merits attention precisely because of its thought-provoking diversity.