Ann Blair
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 277487 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ann Blair |
| NOMBRES | Ann |
| APELLIDO | Blair |
| FIRMA | BLAIR A |
| AFILIACIONES | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2912-0140 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 102 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Lost in Renaissance
Linguistic resources and classroom conditions for translanguaging in a newly expanding language ecology
The discursive tactics of perpetuating white normativity in public education
In recent years, state policies banning “divisive concepts” have proliferated as part of a coordinated effort to undermine racial justice by framing critical discussions of race as “indoctrination” and imposing ideological restrictions on curriculum and pedagogy. Using critical policy discourse analysis informed by a critical study of whiteness, this paper examines how 22 policy documents from 18 states operate discursively to shape the parameter…
Advancing principles of systemic functional linguistics in responsive graduate teacher education through design-based research
Within current U.S. and international education contexts, teachers are challenged to support students in meeting subject-area expectations that require increasingly demanding uses of language and literacy in English. The rise of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) learners in K-12 classrooms, along with educational policies emphasizing standards, assessment, and accountability requires the preparation of all teachers to serve CLD learners…
Expanding teacher understanding of scaffolding for multilingual learners using a language-based approach to content instruction
Scaffolding ensures multilingual learners (ML) are adequately challenged and supported at school while learning English and subject area content. Due to the dynamic nature of language development, teachers may struggle to anticipate how to adequately scaffold lessons or reflect on their practice to identify areas for improvement. This paper examines how nine middle and secondary teachers across different content areas expanded their understanding…
Distributed liderazgo
This qualitative study conducted at a Midwestern U.S. elementary school with a 'strand' bilingual programme examines the ways that administrators, teachers, and parents create learning environments for emergent bilinguals (EBs) that promote a positive view of bilingualism. To frame the study, the author used distributed leadership to emphasise the multiple stakeholders and levels on which leadership is exercised. Liderazgo is used to emphasise th…
Multiple forms of precarity in Martin Mulsow’s Knowledge Lost
Paratexts of the English Bible, 1525-1611, written by Debora Shuger
Kathryn Schwartz, Book Historian of the Modern Middle East
This article presents the contributions of Dr. Kathryn Schwartz (1984-2022), book historian of the modern Middle East. Her study of the origins and impact of the printing press in late Ottoman Egypt has challenged some long-standing assumptions in the historiography. She has also put into question the long-held belief that Ottomans banned printing. More broadly, her work has challenged Eurocentric approaches to this topic and has innovated by com…
Manuscripts as Pedagogical Tools in the Philosophy Teaching of Jean-Robert Chouet (1642–1731)
Réflexions sur les continuités technologiques
En vue de contribuer aux travaux récents sur l’usage ininterrompu du manuscrit au temps de la presse manuelle, je me concentrerai sur quelques exemplaires de manuscrits, copiés à partir de livres imprimés, conservés à la Rylands Library, et traiterai des raisons qui ont motivé leur réalisation. Certains de ces manuscrits étaient des objets de luxe témoignant de la richesse et du prestige de leur possesseur, quand d’autres étaient fabriqués pour d…
Toward collaborative partnerships
There is widespread consensus that parental involvement in their children's education contributes to the children's success at school. However, it is also recognized that non-dominant populations, particularly immigrant families, face language and cultural barriers, racism, poverty, and other obstacles to navigating school practices that many families do not face. In this article, we argue for the need to reject overtly school-centered parental i…
The Invention of Rare Books
Forgers and Critics, New Edition
Reimagining English‐Medium Instructional Settings as Sites of Multilingual and Multimodal Meaning Making
Challenging the notion that English‐medium instruction ( EMI ) is necessarily an English‐only space, the authors argue for an alternative vision of EMI settings as spaces that benefit both emergent bi/multilinguals and their English‐monolingual peers. Given that the enactment of EMI varies according to the underlying language ideologies of the educators who implement it, the authors argue for the importance of shifting from deficit‐based monogolo…
The Theater of Nature
The Theater of Nature is histoire totale of the last work of the political philosopher Jean Bodin, his Universae naturae theatrum (1596). Through Bodin's work, Ann Blair explores the fascinating and previously little known world of late Renaissance natural philosophy. A study of the text, of its context (through comparisons with different genres of natural philosophy and works entitled "Theater"), and of its reception in the seventeenth century h…
Theater of Nature
Humanist Methods in Natural Philosophy
As new evidence for the interaction between humanism and science in the Renaissance, this chapter traces the use among natural philosophical authors of a quintessentially humanist method of reading and storing information-through the commonplace book. In tracing how Bodin used his sources and how his work was used in turn by its readers one can follow traditional natural philosophy in the making through a seemingly unending cycle of textual selec…
Mexican transnational parents
Through two qualitative case studies conducted over two years, this research examines the educational practices and perceptions of two working-class Mexican transnational families currently living in a Midwestern city in the United States. Findings indicate that for transnational families and their children, educational inclusion is about successfully developing the languages and language repertoires that children will need in their translocal ed…
The 2016 Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture
I discuss how printing affected the practice of scholarship by examining the working methods of Conrad Gessner (1516–65), a prolific humanist, bibliographer, and natural historian. Gessner supplemented his revenue as city physician in Zurich through his publishing activities. He hailed printing, along with libraries to preserve the books, as crucial to the successful transmission of learning to the distant future. Gessner also used printing as a …
For the Sake of Learning
In this tribute to Anthony Grafton, a
Early Modern Attitudes toward the Delegation of Copying and Note-Taking
French salons, and collaborative work in more or less formalized academies, from the Accademia dei Lyncei to the Royal Society. 4 Other humanists are the most visible, but were not the only kinds of people with whom scholars worked.A spate of recent work on the early modern France has emphasized the interactions of authors with their printers for example. 5But the production of manuscripts through reading, note-taking, writing, and copying also o…
Noël-Antoine Pluche as a Jansenist natural theologian
Constance Blackwell introduced me to early modern histories of philosophy when I first met her some time around the 1993 publication of Giovanni Santinello's Models of the History of Philosophy vol.1. The notion of studying how early modern thinkers approached their own recent intellectual history was new to me and inspiring. Works like Morhof's Polyhistor and J.J. Brucker's Historia criticae philosophiae offer new perspectives on canonical figur…
Rens Bod. A New History of the Humanities
Rens Bod and James Turner each embarked a number of years ago on a dauntingly difficult project for which there was no precedent: to trace the history of the humanities across two millennia and many divergent disciplines. Imagine their surprise to discover one another only shortly before their books appeared in print at about the same time. These two remarkable studies illustrate the fragmentation of the humanities into separate disciplines and p…
Dramatic Data
In this article, we demonstrate how ethnodramatic writing can offer critically needed insights into the language learning and educational trajectories of a significant yet little researched group of immigrant English learners in community college settings. The participants' reflections and impressions about learning English and about U.S. culture were woven into two dramatic scenes. The authors employ Bakhtinian and postcolonial perspectives to a…
Humanist Methods in Natural Philosophy
As new evidence for the interaction between humanism and science in the Renaissance I will trace the use among natural philosophical authors of a quintessentially humanist method of reading and storing information-through the book. In this method of reading (which I will call the method of commonplaces) one selects passages of interest for the rhetorical turns of phrase, the dialectical arguments, or the factual information they contain; one then…
Mosaic Physics and the Search for a Pious Natural Philosophy in the Late Renaissance
In the tense religious climate of the late Renaissance (ca. 1550-1650), traditional charges of impiety directed against Aristotle carried new weight. Many turned to alternative philosophical authorities in the search for a truly pious philosophy. Another, "most pious" solution was to ground natural philosophy on a literal reading of the Bible, especially Genesis. I examine this kind of physics, often called Mosaic, or sacred, or Christian, throug…
Reimagining English‐Medium Instructional Settings as Sites of Multilingual and Multimodal Meaning Making
Challenging the notion that English‐medium instruction ( EMI ) is necessarily an English‐only space, the authors argue for an alternative vision of EMI settings as spaces that benefit both emergent bi/multilinguals and their English‐monolingual peers. Given that the enactment of EMI varies according to the underlying language ideologies of the educators who implement it, the authors argue for the importance of shifting from deficit‐based monogolo…
The Rise of Note‐Taking in Early Modern Europe
The history of note‐taking has only begun to be written. On the one hand, the basic functions of selecting, summarizing, storing and sorting information garnered from reading, listening, observing and thinking can be identified in most literate contexts in some form or other. On the other hand, Renaissance humanists emphasized with unprecedented success the virtues of stockpiling notes on large scales and for the long term, thanks to the availabi…
The Theater of Nature
The Theater of Nature is histoire totale of the last work of the political philosopher Jean Bodin, his Universae naturae theatrum (1596). Through Bodin's work, Ann Blair explores the fascinating and previously little known world of late Renaissance natural philosophy. A study of the text, of its context (through comparisons with different genres of natural philosophy and works entitled "Theater"), and of its reception in the seventeenth century h…
An Early Modernist's Perspective
Historians of science can gain new insights into the material practices and intellectual trajectories of natural philosophers by attending to evidence of what they read and how. From the time of the early modern period we have sources not often extant for earlier periods, including manuscript reading notes, kept in separate notebooks or in the margins of books, and advice books on how to read. From this variety of sources we can piece together ev…
Toward collaborative partnerships
There is widespread consensus that parental involvement in their children's education contributes to the children's success at school. However, it is also recognized that non-dominant populations, particularly immigrant families, face language and cultural barriers, racism, poverty, and other obstacles to navigating school practices that many families do not face. In this article, we argue for the need to reject overtly school-centered parental i…
"Authorship in the Popular "Problemata Aristotelis
This article examines the complex fortuna of the "Problemata Aristotelis" which circulated widely in early modern Europe in a textual tradition independent of the better-known ancient problems attributed to Aristotle. A study of the editions of this text (designated "Omnes homines") and its various add-ons, spanning four languages (Latin, German, French and English) and four centuries (late 15th-19th centuries), brings to light the otherwise obsc…
Reading Strategies for Coping With Information Overload ca.1550-1700
This article surveys some of the ways in which early modern scholars responded to what they perceived as an overabundance of books. In addition to owning more books and applying selective judgment as well as renewed diligence to their reading and note-taking, scholars devised shortcuts, sometimes based on medieval antecedents. These shortcuts included the use of the alphabetical index, whether printed or handmade, to read a book in parts, and the…
Tycho Brahe's Critique of Copernicus and the Copernican System
For Luther he was the "fool who wanted to turn the art of astronomy on its head"'; for Frangois Viete he was the paraphraser of Ptolemy and "more a master of the dice than of the (mathematical) profession"2; for nearly every intellectual in the century following De revolutionibus Copernicus was a figure to be evaluated and criticized, if not always understood.Tycho Brahe's critique of Copernicus is not summed up in any pithy statement but rather …
The 2016 Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture
I discuss how printing affected the practice of scholarship by examining the working methods of Conrad Gessner (1516–65), a prolific humanist, bibliographer, and natural historian. Gessner supplemented his revenue as city physician in Zurich through his publishing activities. He hailed printing, along with libraries to preserve the books, as crucial to the successful transmission of learning to the distant future. Gessner also used printing as a …
Reassessing Humanism and Science
The notion that and are inevitably opposed to one another in their content, methods, and goals, has multiple origins which reinforce its currency. While one can trace the fear that scientism would undermine traditional morality and mythology back to the Athens of Aristophanes,' the more relevant source for the twentieth-century sense of a gulf between the notorious two cultures2 lies no doubt, as Owen Hannaway argues below, in the segregation in …
Noël-Antoine Pluche as a Jansenist natural theologian
Constance Blackwell introduced me to early modern histories of philosophy when I first met her some time around the 1993 publication of Giovanni Santinello's Models of the History of Philosophy vol.1. The notion of studying how early modern thinkers approached their own recent intellectual history was new to me and inspiring. Works like Morhof's Polyhistor and J.J. Brucker's Historia criticae philosophiae offer new perspectives on canonical figur…
"Disciplinary Distinctions before the "Two Cultures
C. P. Snow's conception of “two cultures” has been readily applied to modern European and especially Anglo-American contexts and used to bemoan the negative impact of disciplinary distinctions. But in the pre-modern period, disciplinary distinctions prevailed along different fault lines. I consider two examples of the dynamics between the disciplines in medieval and early modern Europe to argue that distinctions between the disciplines can foster…
Le florilège latin comme point de comparaison
Blair Ann. Le florilège latin comme point de comparaison. In: Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident, 2007, hors série. Qu'était-ce qu'écrire une encyclopédie en Chine ? / What dit it mean to write an encyclopedia in China ? pp. 185-204
HSS Prize Citations
Sex wars
The Education Act 1993 made the provision of sex education compulsory in all maintained secondary schools for the first time. Additionally, parents were given an unconditional right to withdraw their child from sex education lessons. Given the current concerns about the sexual lifestyle of the young in the UK, highlighted by the White Paper; The Health of the Nation, this article examines the legislative changes to ask whether they are in the bes…
Tycho Brahe's Critique of Copernicus and the Copernican System
For Luther he was the "fool who wanted to turn the art of astronomy on its head"'; for Frangois Viete he was the paraphraser of Ptolemy and "more a master of the dice than of the (mathematical) profession"2; for nearly every intellectual in the century following De revolutionibus Copernicus was a figure to be evaluated and criticized, if not always understood.Tycho Brahe's critique of Copernicus is not summed up in any pithy statement but rather …
Humanist Methods in Natural Philosophy
As new evidence for the interaction between humanism and science in the Renaissance I will trace the use among natural philosophical authors of a quintessentially humanist method of reading and storing information-through the book. In this method of reading (which I will call the method of commonplaces) one selects passages of interest for the rhetorical turns of phrase, the dialectical arguments, or the factual information they contain; one then…
Reassessing Humanism and Science
The notion that and are inevitably opposed to one another in their content, methods, and goals, has multiple origins which reinforce its currency. While one can trace the fear that scientism would undermine traditional morality and mythology back to the Athens of Aristophanes,' the more relevant source for the twentieth-century sense of a gulf between the notorious two cultures2 lies no doubt, as Owen Hannaway argues below, in the segregation in …
Geneva and America in the Renaissance
The dream of a refuge in America became a reality for the brief decade of 1555 to 1565, one which encompassed the creation of an "Antarctic France" in the bay of Rio de Janeiro, and the destruction of Huguenot Florida by the Spanish. Nonetheless, this dream continued to haunt the Protestant party, whose attitude during the Wars of Religion evolved from a doctrinal anticolonialism to a sort of geopolitical realism. Under Coligny and Elizabeth the …
Science and the Secrets of Nature
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Sex wars
The Education Act 1993 made the provision of sex education compulsory in all maintained secondary schools for the first time. Additionally, parents were given an unconditional right to withdraw their child from sex education lessons. Given the current concerns about the sexual lifestyle of the young in the UK, highlighted by the White Paper; The Health of the Nation, this article examines the legislative changes to ask whether they are in the bes…
La poesie du ciel en France dans la seconde moitie du seizieme siecle. Isabelle Pantin
British Society for the History of Science. Report of Council for the year 1996
Objects The primary objective for which the Society is established is to promote and further the study of the history and philosophy of science. Secondary objectives include the provision of facilities, the arrangement of meetings, the promotion of research and the publishing of papers; full details of all the objectives may be found in the Society's Memorandum of Association . Policies The main policy of the Society is to provide the infrastruct…
"Authorship in the Popular "Problemata Aristotelis
This article examines the complex fortuna of the "Problemata Aristotelis" which circulated widely in early modern Europe in a textual tradition independent of the better-known ancient problems attributed to Aristotle. A study of the editions of this text (designated "Omnes homines") and its various add-ons, spanning four languages (Latin, German, French and English) and four centuries (late 15th-19th centuries), brings to light the otherwise obsc…
Mosaic Physics and the Search for a Pious Natural Philosophy in the Late Renaissance
In the tense religious climate of the late Renaissance (ca. 1550-1650), traditional charges of impiety directed against Aristotle carried new weight. Many turned to alternative philosophical authorities in the search for a truly pious philosophy. Another, "most pious" solution was to ground natural philosophy on a literal reading of the Bible, especially Genesis. I examine this kind of physics, often called Mosaic, or sacred, or Christian, throug…
Reading Strategies for Coping With Information Overload ca.1550-1700
This article surveys some of the ways in which early modern scholars responded to what they perceived as an overabundance of books. In addition to owning more books and applying selective judgment as well as renewed diligence to their reading and note-taking, scholars devised shortcuts, sometimes based on medieval antecedents. These shortcuts included the use of the alphabetical index, whether printed or handmade, to read a book in parts, and the…
Reading Strategies for Coping with Information Overload ca. 1550-1700
This article surveys some of the ways in which early modern scholars responded to what they perceived as an overabundance of books. In addition to owning more books and applying selective judgment as well as renewed diligence to their reading and note-taking, scholars devised shortcuts, sometimes based on medieval antecedents. These shortcuts included the use of the alphabetical index, whether printed or handmade, to read a book in parts, and the…
Note Taking as an Art of Transmission
An Early Modernist's Perspective
Historians of science can gain new insights into the material practices and intellectual trajectories of natural philosophers by attending to evidence of what they read and how. From the time of the early modern period we have sources not often extant for earlier periods, including manuscript reading notes, kept in separate notebooks or in the margins of books, and advice books on how to read. From this variety of sources we can piece together ev…
HSS Prize Citations
Natural Philosophy
"Natural philosophy" is often used by historians of science as an umbrella term to designate the study of nature before it could easily be identified with what we call "science" today. This is done to avoid the modern and potentially anachronistic connotations of the term "science." But "natural philosophy" (and its equivalents in different languages) was also an actor's category, a term commonly used throughout the early modern period and typica…
The Cambridge History of Christianity
This authoritative volume presents the history of Christianity from the eve of the Protestant Reformation to the height of Catholic Reform. In addition to in-depth coverage of the politics and theology of various reform movements in the sixteenth century, this book discusses at length the impact of the permanent schism on Latin Christendom, the Catholic responses to it, and the influence on the development of the Orthodox churches. This comprehen…
Le florilège latin comme point de comparaison
Blair Ann. Le florilège latin comme point de comparaison. In: Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident, 2007, hors série. Qu'était-ce qu'écrire une encyclopédie en Chine ? / What dit it mean to write an encyclopedia in China ? pp. 185-204
De arte excerpendi
This is the first book, to my knowledge, explicitly devoted to early modern manuals on excerpting.Recent work has drawn attention to the significance of this method of taking notes by copying out quotations or information from books into notebooks or (especially after the mid-seventeenth century) onto loose leaves or slips of paper, whence they might later be retrieved.Alberto Cevolini, a sociologist at the University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, o…
"Disciplinary Distinctions before the "Two Cultures
C. P. Snow's conception of “two cultures” has been readily applied to modern European and especially Anglo-American contexts and used to bemoan the negative impact of disciplinary distinctions. But in the pre-modern period, disciplinary distinctions prevailed along different fault lines. I consider two examples of the dynamics between the disciplines in medieval and early modern Europe to argue that distinctions between the disciplines can foster…
Mediating Information, 1450–1800
This chapter argues that the Enlightenment involved not so much a radical break with, but an inheritance of, established technologies for storing, organizing, and retrieving information. In the long history of information management, the first early modern period (ca. 1450–1650) was especially significant in the development of new techniques and the refinement of existing ones to manage an explosion of printed matter and manuscript record keeping…
The Rise of Note‐Taking in Early Modern Europe
The history of note‐taking has only begun to be written. On the one hand, the basic functions of selecting, summarizing, storing and sorting information garnered from reading, listening, observing and thinking can be identified in most literate contexts in some form or other. On the other hand, Renaissance humanists emphasized with unprecedented success the virtues of stockpiling notes on large scales and for the long term, thanks to the availabi…
Revisiting Renaissance encyclopaedism
The Renaissance has long been associated with ‘encyclopedism’ primarily for two different reasons which are not directly related to one another. On the hand the term was first coined in the late fifteenth century, though without many of connotations we associate with the term today, to designate an ideal of learning which spanned and highlighted the relations between many disciplines. On the other hand many Renaissance writings, from compilations…
Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance
There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea that there was any clear pre-modern genre of the 'encyclopaedia', and showing instead how t…
ANDREW Pettegree. The Book in the Renaissance
Book history now extends far beyond its original focus on the early development of printed books in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe. Thanks to a spate of publications especially during the last fifteen years we have handbooks of many kinds and multivolume histories of the book in America, Australia, Britain, Canada, France, and the German-speaking regions. A growing array of monographs and collective volumes take us beyond these best-stud…
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