The Virgilian Tradition: Book History and the History of Reading in Early Modern Europe20095Craig Kallendorf. The Virgilian Tradition: Book History and the History of Reading in Early Modern Europe. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Variorum from Ashgate Publishing 2007. xiv + 304 pp. (original article pagination), ISBN: ISBN 978‐0‐7546‐5923‐5 £62.50 (hardback) Variorum Collected Studies Series CS885

2009 ◽  
Vol 58 (8) ◽  
pp. 623-624
Author(s):  
Stuart Hannabuss
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Book History ◽  
History Of Reading ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ashgate Publishing ◽  
Modern Europe

scholarly journals Learning by the book: manuals and handbooks in the history of science

BJHS Themes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Angela N.H. Creager ◽  
Mathias Grote ◽  
Elaine Leong
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Book History ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Medieval China ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Europe

AbstractThis essay offers an overview of how manuals and handbooks have contributed to the standardization, codification, transmission and revision of knowledge. These instructional and reference texts are distinct from related educational genres such as textbooks and editions due to their focus on practical knowledge. They are also notable for their appearance in diverse times and places, such as ancient Greece, early and medieval China and early modern Europe, as well as modern contexts worldwide. We are especially interested in the role of these often mundane texts in maintaining and resituating old knowledge, whose importance is discounted when scholars focus on innovation. Modern notions of authorship fit poorly with handbooks and manuals, which are generally derivative of other literature, though they often result in more commercially successful texts than their sources. This introduction draws on book history as well as history of science to offer a framework for the volume.

scholarly journals Cultural History, Ritual and Performance: George L. Mosse in Context

2021 ◽  
pp. 002200942094003
Author(s):  
Peter Burke
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Cultural Turn

George L. Mosse took a ‘cultural turn’ in the latter part of his career, but still early enough to make a pioneering contribution to the study of political culture and in particular what he called political ‘liturgy’, including marches, processions, and practices of commemoration. He adapted to the study of nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the approach to the history of ritual developed by historians of medieval and early modern Europe, among them his friend Ernst Kantorowicz. More recently, the concept of ritual, whether religious or secular, has been criticized by some cultural historians on the grounds that it implies a fixed ‘script’ in situations that were actually marked by fluidity and improvisation. In this respect cultural historians have been part of a wider trend that includes sociologists and anthropologists as well as theatre scholars and has been institutionalized as Performance Studies. Some recent studies of contemporary nationalism in Tanzania, Venezuela and elsewhere have adopted this perspective, emphasizing that the same performance may have different meanings for different sections of the audience. It is only to be regretted that Mosse did not live long enough to respond to these studies and that their authors seem unaware of his work.

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