Anthony T. Grafton

About the Author

Anthony T. Grafton is a distinguished historian whose scholarship explores the intellectual, cultural, and scholarly worlds of early modern Europe. A longtime professor at Princeton University, he has written extensively about the history of ideas, classical learning, Renaissance humanism, and the practices through which knowledge is created, transmitted, and challenged. His work combines meticulous archival research with an engaging sensitivity to the lives of readers, scholars, and interpreters across centuries. Grafton is widely respected for illuminating the connections between creativity, authority, and evidence in Western intellectual history. His notable work includes Forgers and Critics, New Edition: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship.