Intellectual History
This is a postprint version of the article that appeared in Hidden Truths from Eden: Esoteric Interpretations of Genesis 1-3, ed. Caroline Vander Stichele and Susanne Scholz (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Studies, 2014),... more
This is a postprint version of the article that appeared in Hidden Truths from Eden: Esoteric Interpretations of Genesis 1-3, ed. Caroline Vander Stichele and Susanne Scholz (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Studies, 2014), 141-162.
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The history of the sciences and the history of the book are complementary, and there has been much recent innovative research in the intersection of these lively fields. This accessibly-written, well-illustrated volume, published in 2000,... more
The history of the sciences and the history of the book are complementary, and there has been much recent innovative research in the intersection of these lively fields. This accessibly-written, well-illustrated volume, published in 2000, was the first systematic general work to do justice to the fruits of recent scholarship. The twenty specially-commissioned chapters, by an international cast of distinguished scholars, cover the period from the Carolingian renaissance of learning to the mid nineteenth-century consolidation of science. They examine all aspects of the authorship, production, distribution, and reception of manuscripts, books and journals in the various sciences. An editorial introduction surveys the many profitable interactions of the history of the sciences with the history of books. Two afterwords highlight the relevances of this wide-ranging survey to the study of the development of scientific disciplines and to the predicaments of scientific communication in the electronic age.
Research Interests: History of Science and Technology, Intellectual History, History of Ideas, History of Medicine, History of the Book, and 15 moreHistory of Science, History of Philosophy of Science, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, History of Reading and Writing, Early Modern Intellectual History, Intellectual and cultural history, History of Reading, Cultural and Intellectual History, Print Culture, Book History and the History of Reading, History of Books, Printing, and Publishing, History of scientific illustration of animals, History of Philosophy, History of Ideas; Intellectual and Cultural History, History of Botanical Illustration, and The History of Writing and Illustration
Research Interests: History, Ancient History, European History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, and 27 moreEconomic History, Historical Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Art History, Social Anthropology, Medieval History, Early Modern History, History of Medicine, Medieval Studies, Urban History, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Early Modern Europe, Architectural History, Medieval Archaeology, Social History, Early Modern Intellectual History, History of Civic and Private Charity, Cultural Anthropology, History of Hospitals, History of Leprosy, History and Archeology, History of Charity, History of Medicine, History of Hospitals, Early Modern France History of Hospitals, Anthropology of Religion, History of Philosophy, and Archeology
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One of the most striking features of the historian E. A. Freeman’s life and thought is the contrast between the young Tractarian student of architecture and the mature liberal, even radical, historian. This article explains that the... more
One of the most striking features of the historian E. A. Freeman’s life and thought is the contrast between the young Tractarian student of architecture and the mature liberal, even radical, historian. This article explains that the transition from the one to the other was not a process of sudden conversion or rupture, but rather a natural development. To understand the crucial years c.1846-1850, when Freeman’s thought was most in ferment, a number of his early, hitherto unidentified, publications have been tracked down, including his earliest published study of the Norman Conquest. From these sources, among others, it has been possible to reconstruct how his early medievalism and anti-Erastianism evolved into a general commitment to liberty, democracy and republicanism, without repudiating the High Anglicanism of his youth. Though apparently idiosyncratic, this intellectual development was shared to some extent by a number of prominent Victorian liberals, not least Gladstone himself.