Reviews for Defenders of the Text The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450-1800

The average rating for Defenders of the Text The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450-1800 based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-10-09 00:00:00 Christopher Cadotte In 2012 I followed a course called 'Introduction to philology'. We were recommended this book but never had to read it so it was just laying there in my to-read shelves. Now I finally got around to reading it. It was good, but heavy. As I said, I had some courses in philology on the university, but even so some chapters were hard to read. I adored chapter 1 'Renaissance Readers and Ancient Texts', chapter 2 'The Scholarship of Poliziano and Its Context' and chapter 8 'Isaac la Peyrère and the Old Testament' (loved his theory about Genesis 1 and 2!) but I eventually skipped a big part of chapter 4 'Scaliger's Chronology'. I just didn't have enough context to follow it. Grafton has a really clear style of writer, he can explain things very well, but he just likes to choose obscure themes. One thing I did really dislike about this book was how the publisher apparentely choose to show all fragments of Greek in our alphabet. It's incredibly annoying, and not useful at all. Either you know Greek, in which case you know the Greek alphabet (and it reads so much easier in it's own alphabet!) or you don't know Greek, in which case you don't care about these fragments at all. The only reason I can think for doing this is for printing reasons but my edition was published in 1994 at Harvard University Press. I don't think inserting the Greek alphabet would have been a problem.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-08-28 00:00:00 Michael Curnes i needn it