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Ray Schrire
is a Fellow at The Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. His work brings together cognitive science and book history in order to uncover how early moderns thought while facing challenges such as learning Latin in grammar schools, reckoning their shopping bills, or taking note of the weather.
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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