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In&nbsp;<em>Connected Mobilities: the Practice and Experience of Movement in the Early Modern World<\/em>, edited by P. Nelles and R. Salzberg, 7\u201338. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDevotion in Transit. Agnus Dei, Jesuit Missionaries, and Global Salvation in the Sixteenth Century.\u201d In&nbsp;<em>Connected Mobilities: the Practice and Experience of Movement in the Early Modern World<\/em>, edited by P. Nelles and R. Salzberg, 185\u2013214. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKnowledge.\u201d In&nbsp;<em>A Cultural History of Ideas<\/em>. Volume 3.&nbsp;<em>The Renaissance<\/em>, edited by J. Kraye, 15\u201338. London: Bloomsbury, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLibraries and Catalogs.\u201d In<em>The Princeton Companion to the History of Information<\/em>. Ed. A. Blair, P. Duguid, and A.T. Grafton. Pp. 567\u201378. Princeton, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJesuit Letters.\u201d In&nbsp;<em>The Oxford Handbook of Jesuits<\/em>. Ed. I. G. Zupinov. Pp. 44\u201372. Oxford, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe. Beyond Production, Circulation, and Consumption<\/em>. Co-editor with D. Bellingradt &nbsp;and J. Salman. London, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Vatican Library Alphabets, Luca Orfei, and Graphic Media in Sistine Rome.\u201d In&nbsp;<em>For the Sake of Learning: essays in honor of Anthony Grafton.<\/em>&nbsp;Ed. A. Blair and A.-S. Goeing. Pp. 441\u201368. Leiden, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Cosas y cartas<\/em>: Scribal Production and Material Pathways in Jesuit Global Communication (1547\u20131573).\u201d&nbsp;<em>Journal of Jesuit Studies<\/em>&nbsp;(2015): 421\u201350.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChanciller\u00eda en colegio: la producci\u00f3n y circulaci\u00f3n de papeles jesuitas en el siglo XVI.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Cuadernos de Historia Moderna. Anejos<\/em>&nbsp;13 (2014): 49\u201370. (Special issue:&nbsp;<em>La Memoria del mundo: clero, erudici\u00f3n y cultura escrita en el mundo ib\u00e9rico (siglos XVI\u2013XVIII)<\/em>. Ed. F. Palomo.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cStocking a Library: Montaigne, the Market, and the Diffusion of Print.\u201d In&nbsp;<em>La Librairie de Montaigne<\/em>. Ed. P. Ford and N. Kenny. Pp. 1\u201324. Cambridge, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSeeing and Writing: the Art of Observation in the Early Jesuit Missions.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Intellectual History Review<\/em>&nbsp;20\/3 (2010): 317-333.&nbsp; Special issue:&nbsp;<em>Note-taking and Notebooks from Da Vinci to Darwin<\/em>.&nbsp; Ed.&nbsp; Ann Blair and Richard Yeo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cReading and Memory in the Universal Library: Conrad Gessner and the Renaissance Book.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Ars Reminiscendi: Mind and Memory in Renaissance Culture<\/em><em>.<\/em>&nbsp;Ed. Donald Beecher and Grant Williams. Pp. 147-169. Toronto, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLibros de papel, libri bianchi, libri papyracei: Note-Taking Techniques and the Role of Student Notebooks in the Early Jesuit Colleges.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Archivum historicum Societatis Iesu<\/em>&nbsp;76 (2007): 75-112.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDu savant au missionnaire: la doctrine, les moeurs et l\u2019\u00e9criture de l\u2019histoire chez les j\u00e9suites.\u201d&nbsp;<em>XVII si\u00e8cle<\/em>&nbsp;59 (2007): 669-689.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Uses of Orthodoxy and Jacobean Erudition: Thomas James and the Bodleian Library.\u201d&nbsp;<em>History of Universities<\/em>&nbsp;22 (2007): 21-70.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4579,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Paul","cu_people_last_name":"Nelles","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[61],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-225","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor - 16th-18th c. 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