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The Footnote: A Curious History Anthony Grafton
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Source for the goose: footnotes to history. Without Easter, Jesus of Nazareth would be a curious historical footnote. The bit that I really like is the section which makes comparisons between the use of the footnote and hyperlinking. (Consider the artful use of “cf.,” for example.) For an expansive history of the footnote, I recommend Anthony Grafton, The Footnote: A Curious History (Harvard 1997). Two volumes of bookish cultural history that I've been reading: Willis Goth Regier's Quotology (Univ. Of Nebraska Press, 2010), about quotations, and Anthony Grafton's The Footnote: A Curious History (Harvard Univ. In the interim, I wanted to just flag a pair of curious historical footnotes, both of which tend to get overlooked in these conversations (perhaps for good reasons). Without Easter, the world would still be divided into waiting Jews and puzzled pagans. Are they not sometimes argumentative, even barbed? The footnote has even been the subject of an impressive academic study by Anthony Grafton, who specializes in the arcana of scholarship. By Gareth on My curiosity piqued, I thought it might be worth re-reading the chapter in Air Con he devotes to Soros, and trying to follow the footnote trail he so obligingly provides. Here is a curious historical footnote, just at the side of the road, as explained in the noticeboard.