The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain - Couverture rigide

Kimmel, Seth

 
9780226833170: The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0226833178 ISBN 13 : 9780226833170
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2024

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Seth Kimmel is associate professor of Latin American and Iberian cultures at Columbia University. He is the author of Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226833178
ISBN 13 
9780226833170
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
272
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Personne responsable
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