Table of Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Note on republications
Note on translations
Foreword: Lisa Jardine and UCL’s Centre for Editing Lives and Letters
Robyn Adams and Matthew Symonds
Preface: Lisa Jardine and the History of Reading
Anthony Grafton
Introduction
Anthony Grafton, Nicholas Popper and William Sherman
1 ‘Studied for action’: How Gabriel Harvey read his Livy
Lisa Jardine and Anthony Grafton
2 Gabriel Harvey: Exemplary Ramist and pragmatic humanist
Lisa Jardine
3 Purpose-specific political reading with the Leicester circle
Lisa Jardine and William Sherman
4 The English Polydaedali: How Gabriel Harvey read late Tudor London
Nicholas Popper
5 Generative genealogies, reading practices and the transformation of late Renaissance mathematics
Nicholas Popper with Anthony Grafton
6 How Harvey used his Augustine
Arnoud Visser
7 Pragmatic readers: Knowledge transactions and scholarly services in late Elizabethan England
Lisa Jardine and William Sherman
8 Studied for disputation: How Gabriel Harvey read his library
Earle Havens
9 What is an annotator? Renaissance marginalia as a textual for
Sara Miglietti
10 Writing about reading: On early modern annotation practice and the future of book history
Frederic Clark
11 ‘Studied for action’ revisited
Lisa Jardine
Epilogue: From Moore Smith’s Marginalia to the Archaeology of Reading and back
Anthony Grafton
Appendix: Gabriel Harvey’s library of annotated books
Earle Havens
Bibliography
Index