"I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue": Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship

(Part of the Carl Newell Jackson Lectures Series)

by Joanna Weinberg and Anthony Grafton

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" An] extraordinary book." --New Republic

Fusing high scholarship with high drama, Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg uncover a secret and extraordinary aspect of a legendary Renaissance scholar's already celebrated achievement. The French Protestant Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) is known to us through his pedantic namesake in George Eliot's Middlemarch. But in this book, the real Casaubon emerges as a genuine literary...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674048407

ISBN13:9780674048409

Release Date:January 2011

Publisher:Belknap Press

Length:392 Pages

Weight:0.15 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 7.4" x 10.0"

Related Subjects

16th Century 17th Century Christian Books & Bibles Ethnic & National History History of Religion Jewish Judaism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods Reference Renaissance Social Science Social Sciences World

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"I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue": Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship

(Part of the Carl Newell Jackson Lectures Series)

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