History’s Footnotes
The addition of footnotes to texts by historians began long before their supposed inventor, Leopold von Ranke, started using them (poorly, as it turns out).
By: Matthew Wills via @JSTOR_Daily
History’s Footnotes
The addition of footnotes to texts by historians began long before their supposed inventor, Leopold von Ranke, started using them (poorly, as it turns out).
By: Matthew Wills via @JSTOR_Daily
@gutenberg_org The article is based (as it should be) on the work of my erstwhile teacher Tony Grafton, who once said to me, while we were discussing a particular footnote in an article I wrote, 'Of course, I love footnotes. After all, I wrote the book!'
(The book in question is Anthony Grafton, The Footnote: A Curious History [Harvard University Press, 1997].)
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