The Footnote: A Curious History by Anthony Grafton

The Footnote: A Curious History

Anthony Grafton

256 pages 1997

7 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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The weapon of pedants, the scourge of undergraduates, the bEte noire of the "new" liberated scholar: the lowly footnote, long the refuge of the minor and the marginal, emerges in this book as a singular resource, with a surprising history that say...

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