The Footnote: A Curious History

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Footnotes: The Origin of a Species 2. Ranke: A Footnote about Scientific History 3. How the Historian Found His Muse: Ranke's Path to the Footnote 4. Footnotes and Philosophie: An Enlightenment Interlude 5. Back to the Future, 1: De Thou Documents the Details 6. Back to the Future, 2: The Antlike Industry of Ecclesiastical Historians and Antiquaries 7. Clarity and Distinctness in the Abysses of Erudition: The Cartesian Origins of the Modern Footnote Epilogue: Some Concluding Footnotes Index