Librarian's Atlas (eBook)

The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain

Seth Kimmel (Autor)

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2024
304 Seiten
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-83318-7 (ISBN)

Infos

A history of early modern libraries and the imperial desire for total knowledge. Medieval scholars imagined the library as a microcosm of the world, but as novel early modern ways of managing information facilitated empire in both the New and Old Worlds, the world became a projection of the library. In The Librarian s Atlas, Seth Kimmel offers a sweeping material history of how the desire to catalog books coincided in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with the aspiration to control territory. Through a careful study of library culture in Spain and Morocco close readings of catalogs, marginalia, indexes, commentaries, and maps Kimmel reveals how the booklover s dream of a comprehensive and well-organized library shaped an expanded sense of the world itself.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.5.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• ISBN-10: 0-226-83318-6 / 0226833186
• ISBN-13: 978-0-226-83318-7 / 9780226833187