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

Kimmel, Seth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226854477 ISBN 13 : 9780226854472

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2026

Synopsis

A history of early modern libraries and the imperial desire for total knowledge―now in paperback.
 
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.

A propos du livre

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226854477
• ISBN 13: 9780226854472
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible