Anthony Grafton's Defenders of the Text, published by Harvard University Press in 1991, is a scholarly study by a leading historian of textual scholarship. Its strength is that it examines in detail how scholars across history have detected forgery and established the authenticity of texts. Its limit is the ordinary one for a scholarly monograph: it covers the specific episodes and figures Grafton chose to examine, not every instance of textual scholarship across history.
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Reliability tier 1: a scholarly monograph from a major university press by a leading historian of textual scholarship. NotesScholarly study of textual scholarship and forgery detection in the age of science, Harvard University Press, 1991.
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AuthorAnthony Grafton
PublisherHarvard University Press
Publication Year1991
Source Typebook
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Esoteric Texts, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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