Anthony Grafton
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Anthony Grafton
@scaliger
Grandfather, teacher of history, historian of scholarship and reading
Princeton Katılım Ocak 2009
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I'll delete this in a moment or two, but feel obliged to note that I just read the blurb of a new book that brings together "two modes of writing, the academic and the autobiographical, for the first time".
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This is probably true also for colonial Latin American jobs like mine. And also true for most early modernists. And if you are a specialists of Ancient or Medieval history, then forget about it. Basically all pre- modern fields are screwed. It’s horrible.
Jonathan B. Field (he/him)@ThatJBF
It is kind of wild to think that if you are a tenured or tenure-track early American lit prof, you are almost certainly the last person who will have that job in the history of your institution.
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Great piece by Richard Ovenden on the attack on the BL, ongoing efforts to restore services and the abject failure of government to provide necessary support. standard.co.uk/comment/britis…
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A fine essay on two great historians of science. intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/jim-be…
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Not to mention your terrific piece in tje Chronicle on Omer Bartov.
Jacob Mikanowski@JMikanowski
Julia! This is so unbelievably, extraordinarily generous, I don't know what to say. Thank you!
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@spenceweinreich I’m so sorry. The last cat who knew everything is also fading, and I too have been lucky to br his human.
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Deeply saddened to hear of the death of Natalie Zemon Davis (1928-2023). A brilliant, warm, inspiring teacher, a person of astonishing generosity and integrity, and one of the greatest historians of our time. May her memory be a blessing.
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The eternal Hyde Park question.
Ada Palmer@Ada_Palmer
Is there anywhere in/neat Hyde Park Chicago that does normal New York type pizza? Neither deep dish nor thin & crispy?
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@profrhodrilewis Uneven for sure. But I’m a big fan of the Potteries stories.
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@scaliger I was always (and in retrospect rather foolishly) put off by the Woolf jibe about opening champagne with a corkscrew, but I'm now 120pp. in and think it's excellent. (Can't work out how/why he's so spare in some places and so v nearly verbose in others, but so I suppose it goes.)
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I’m new to Arnold Bennett and am not yet convinced, but this is a v fine page of writing.
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@ChristineKooi What a loss. A great scholar and teacher has left us.
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