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    Unpacking the warburg library
    with Anthony Grafton, Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Michael Baxandall, Elizabeth Sears, Georges Didi-Huberman, Carlo Ginzburg, Joseph Leo Koerner, Christopher S. Wood, and Jill Kraye
    Common Knowledge 18 (1): 117-127. 2012.
    Against the backdrop of Walter Benjamin's famous essay, “Unpacking My Library”, this article, by the Librarian of the Warburg Institute, tells the story of the many times that the Warburg Library has been packed and unpacked. First it was the private collection of Aby Warburg, later a public institution, originally in Hamburg and then in London from 1933 to the present. This essay also explores the various ways in which books have been — and continue to be — acquired by the Warburg Library, incl…Read more
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    Rudolph agricola's reading of literature
    Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 48 (1): 23-41. 1985.
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    Montaigne’s wide and critical reading contributed enormously to his writing. that we know more about Montaigne’s reading than any other Renaissance author. This chapter begins by discussing the books Montaigne read and the comments he made on his reading. It argues that we should take seriously his advice to read in order to become wise, by discovering one’s own views, rather than to become learned, by summarizing the views of others. It describes Montaigne’s method of writing in reaction to his…Read more
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    Returning to the library
    Common Knowledge 18 (1): 17-21. 2012.
    This essay reflects on the different uses that its author has made of the Warburg Institute Library, first as a student, resident in the Library for two years, then as a visitor on day-long research trips from Warwick, and most recently as director of the Institute. After describing how the Library shelves can be accessed now electronically and discussing the arrangements of the opening sections of the fourth floor and the second floor, the essay concludes with comments on the future of the Libr…Read more
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    Revaluations (review)
    The Classical Review 49 (2): 545-547. 1999.
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    Master Tully. Cicero in Tudor England (review)
    The Classical Review 49 (2): 624-624. 1999.
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    Instituiton Oratoria (review)
    The Classical Review 53 (2): 374-376. 2003.
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    Rhetoric's Questions, Reading and Interpretation
    Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan. 2017.
    This book aims to help readers interpret, and reflect on, their reading more effectively. It presents doctrines of ancient and renaissance rhetoric (an education in how to write well) as questions or categories for interpreting one's reading. The first chapter presents the questions. Later chapters use rhetorical theory to bring out the implications of, and suggest possible answers to, the questions: about occasion and audience (chapter 2), structure and disposition (3), narrative (4), argument …Read more
  • Montaigne and Christian humanism
    In Arie Johan Vanderjagt, A. A. MacDonald, Z. R. W. M. von Martels & Jan R. Veenstra (eds.), Christian Humanism: Essays in Honour of Arjo Vanderjagt, Brill. 2009.