Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
15.09.2026
Abbildungen
42 b/w illus.
Verlag
University PressesSeitenzahl
360
Maße (L/B)
23,5/15,6 cm
Farbe
Altweiß
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-691-27963-3
The hidden hands behind history’s great scholarly works
For centuries, many of the world’s most influential thinkers routinely relied on helpers who performed tasks such as taking dictation, correcting, indexing, composing, and endless copying. In the Scholar’s Workshop introduces readers to these unsung scribes, assistants, and collaborators, showing how the scholarly enterprise is rarely as solitary as we tend to think.
Ann Blair traces how the learned have relied on helpers since antiquity, discussing how and when these amanuenses became visible in manuscript and occasionally in print and explaining why they were uniquely positioned to shape the posthumous legacy of their principal. Taking an in-depth look at the later Renaissance, she reconstructs the private lives and academic pursuits of leading figures from the period such as the renowned humanist Erasmus, the reformer Martin Bucer, and Paris professors Adrien Turnèbe and Petrus Ramus. Blair paints multifaceted portraits of the servants, students, and family members who assisted in their work, drawing on sources ranging from scholarly texts in both draft and published forms to correspondence, annotations, biographical accounts, and household rules. Turning to the modern age, she identifies new kinds of digital amanuenses with the rise of chatbots and other powerful software tools.
Panoramic in scope, In the Scholar’s Workshop challenges conventional views about authorship and attribution while affirming the enduring importance of collaboration in scholarly work today.
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