Duration of stay:
June 8th-12th, 2015
Research activities in Halle
Evening lecture as part of the Workshop «Hidden Hands. Methods of Collaboration in Early Modern Europe», June 9th, 2015, IZEA, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Curriculum Vitae
Following ample activities in research and education, such as Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Harvard University (2005-2015), the highly renowned historian was appointed as Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor since January 2016 (→ Personal Website)
Research interests
Cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe (16th-17th centuries), with an emphasis on France
History of the book and of reading
History of the disciplines and of scholarship
History of interactions between science and religion
Publications (a selection)
Monographies
Hidden Hands: amanuenses and authorship in early modern Europe. Philadelphia [forthcoming]
Too Much To Know: managing scholarly information before the modern age. New Haven and London 2010
The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science. Princeton 1997
Edited volumes
For the Sake of Learning: Essays in Honor of Anthony Grafton. Co-edited with A. S. Goeing. Leiden [forthcoming]
Note-Taking in Early Modern Europe. Co-edited with R. Yeo [=Intellectual History Review 20,3 (2010)]
Toward a Cultural History of Archives. Co-edited with J. Milligan [=Archival Science 7,4 (2007)]
The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europee. Co-edited with A. Grafton. Philadelphia 1990
Articles (2010-)
Authorial Strategies in Jean Bodin. In: The Reception of Bodin. Ed. by H. A. Lloyd. Leiden 2013), pp. 137-156
Revisiting Renaissance Encyclopaedism. In: Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Ed. by J. König and G. Woolf. Cambridge 2013, pp. 377-397
Neo-Latin in North America. In: Brill Encyclopedia of Neo-Latin. Ed. by J. Bloemendal, Ch. Fantazzi and Ph. Ford. Leiden 2014, pp. 883-884
Principes et pratiques de la pédagogie humaniste et réformée. In: Enseignement secondaire formation humaniste et société, XVIe-XXIe siècle (a volume commemorating the 450th anniversary of the founding of Calvin’s Academy in Geneva). Ed. by Ch. Magnin, Ch. A. Muller and B. Extermann. Geneva 2012, pp. 39-67
Afterword: Rethinking Western Printing with Chinese Comparisons. In: Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print. China, 900-1400. Ed. by L. Chia and H. de Weerdt. Leiden 2011, pp. 349-360
Tables et index dans le livre de savoir en Europe moderne. In: Lieux de Savoir. Vol. 2: Les Mains de I’intellect. Ed. by Ch. Jacob. Paris 2011, pp. 552-569 http://lieuxdesavoir.blogspot.com
Introduction. In: Archival Science 10,3 (2010), pp. 195-200 [special issue: Archival Knowledge Cultures in Europe 1400-1900. Ed. by R. Head]
The Rise of Note-Taking in Early Modern Europe. In: Intellectual History Review 20,3 (2010), pp. 303-316
[Co-authored with P. Stallybrass] Mediating Information 1450-1800. In: This Is Enlightenment. Ed. by C. Siskin and W. B. Warner. Chicago 2010, pp. 139-163