is a lecturer in the History Department at Tel Aviv University. He spends his days studying early modern manuscripts to uncover traces of past cognition and encouraging his students to enter rare book rooms to expand their own cognitive worlds.
The mystery of Humphrey Walcot’s grocery bill and early-modern popular numeracy
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a guest post by Ray Schrire It is time for an unofficial Crocodile Mystery. Humphrey Walcot’s grocery bill. Folger, L.f.196 These are a few of my favorite items from the merchant Humphrey Walcot’s shopping list of May 8, 1601 (a…
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