Main entry:

Grafton, Anthony, author.

Title & Author:

The footnote : a curious history / Anthony Grafton.

Edition:

First Harvard University Press paperback edition

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1999
©1997.

Description:

xi, 241 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:
Original English ms. version was translated into German and published under title: Die tragischen Ursprünge der deutschen Fussnote (Berlin, 1995); this is a revision of the original English version.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Footnotes: The origin of a species -- Ranke: A footnote about scientific history -- How the historian found his muse: Ranke's path to the footnote -- Footnotes and "Philosophie": an enlightenment interlude -- Back to the future, I: De thou documents the details -- Back to the future, 2: The antlike industry of ecclesiastical historians and antiquaries -- Clarity and distinctness in the abysses of erudition: The Cartesian origins of the modern footnote -- Epilogue: some concluding footnotes.

Summary:

"...[T]he lowly footnote, long the refuge of the minor and the marginal, emerges in this book as a signular resource, with a surprising history that says volumes about the evolution of modern scholarship." -- Cover, page [4]

ISBN:

0674307607 (paperback)
9780674307605 (paperback)

Subject:

Ranke, Leopold von, 1795-1886.
Bibliographical citations.
Références bibliographiques.
Quotations.
Literature.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289055
Call No.: PN171.F56 G7 1999
Status: Available