Year
2024
Publisher
UCL Press
Language
English
Pages
21
ISBN
978-1-80008-165-9
Last Update
12-Oct-2025
Keywords
History ; Language & Literature
The origins of this book – and, for that matter, much of the current interest in marginalia – can be traced back to Princeton in the late 1980s.¹ Lisa Jardine spent the spring semester of 1988 as a visiting fellow at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center in Princeton’s History Department. Then as now, the fellows of the Center worked on a common theme, and that year’s subject was the transmission of culture.² Lisa formally applied to do research for the book that would later be published as Erasmus, Man of Letters.³ But the most immediate and enduring outcome of her...
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