"With graceful, multilingual scholarship, Moss surveys hundreds of documents with unflagging patience and sympathetic attention."--Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900

"extraordinarily erudite new book..."--SHARPNews

"This is clearly an important book. By examining that all so common sixteenth-century form, the commonplace book, Ann Moss has given us an uncommonly clear view of the intellectual intricacies of the organization of knowledge in early modern Europe."--Sixteenth Century Journal

"...a compendious, learned, and thoughtful book....Moss is entirely persuasive in her assessment. Her judgements are trenchant, her familiarity with the secondary literature in several languages is exhaustive, and her intelligent sampling of this enormous mass of neo-Latin academic treatises inspires confidence."--Modern Europe

"...Moss has important contributons to deliver."--Journal of Modern History