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Between Encyclopaedia and Chorography: Defining the Agency of "Cultural Encyclopaedias" from a Transcultural Perspective - Couverture rigide

Boroffka; Anna

 
9783110747874: Between Encyclopaedia and Chorography: Defining the Agency of "Cultural Encyclopaedias" from a Transcultural Perspective
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 3110747871 ISBN 13 : 9783110747874
Editeur : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022

Synopsis

During the early modern period, regional specified compendia - which combine information on local moral and natural history, towns and fortifications with historiography, antiquarianism, images series or maps - gain a new agency in the production of knowledge. Via literary and aesthetic practices, the compilations construct a display of regional specified knowledge. In some cases this display of regional knowledge is presented as a display of a local cultural identity and is linked to early modern practices of comparing and classifying civilizations. At the core of the publication are compendia on the Americas which research has described as chorographies, encyclopeadias or - more recently - 'cultural encyclopaedias'. Studies on Asian and European encyclopeadias, universal histories and chorographies help to contextualize the American examples in the broader field of an early modern and transcultural knowledge production, which inherits and modifies the ancient and medieval tradition.

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À propos de l'auteur

Anna Boroffka, Universität Hamburg.

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Éditeur
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3110747871
ISBN 13 
9783110747874
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
340
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