The Librarian's Atlas : The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain Hardback
by Seth Kimmel
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:272 pages, 20 halftones
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:06/05/2024
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- ISBN:9780226833170
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Pre-OrderFree UK DeliveryThis title is available for pre-order
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:272 pages, 20 halftones
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:06/05/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9780226833170