Regulating Knowledge in an Entangled World

Regulating Knowledge in an Entangled World uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to study knowledge transfer in early modern knowledge societies.

List of contents

Introduction: Regulating Knowledge: Rules as Enablers Part 1: Labelling 1. Guidelines for Reading: Medieval censura and Roman Censorhip 2. Regulating Dangerous Knowledge: John Lockman’s (1698-1771) Enlightened Readings of Jesuit Letters Part 2: Validating 3. Validating Linguistic Knowledge of Amerindian Languages 4. Regulating the Form: How Manuscript Newsletters Influenced the Standards for Dutch Printed Newspapers (c. 1580-1630) 5. Lost in Regulation: The Hybrid Stage of Trade Knowledge Part 3: Instructing 6. Instructing Trade and War: Regulating Knowledge and People on Faraway Dutch Voyages ca. 1600 7. Regulating the Transfer of Secret Knowledge in Renaissance Venice: A Form of Early Modern Management Part 4: Disciplining 8. Risking Private Ventures: The Instructive Failure of a Well-Travelled Artist, Cornelis de Bruyn 9. On Censors and Booksellers: Curial Elites and the Regulation of Roman Book Trade in the Seventeenth Century 10.Regulating the Exchange of Knowledge: Invoking the ‘Republic of Letters’ as a Speech Act

About the author

Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis is Associate Professor of History of Science and Technology at the University of Twente and Louise Thijssen-Schoute Professor of Early Modern History of Knowledge at Free University, Amsterdam. He studies early modern knowledge cultures, in particular relating to the mathematical sciences. He co-edited Locations of Knowledge in Dutch Contexts (2019) and Rethinking Stevin Rethinking (2021).

Summary

Regulating Knowledge in an Entangled World uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to study knowledge transfer in early modern knowledge societies.

Product details

• Authors: Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
• Assisted by: Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis (Editor), Dijksterhuis Fokko Jan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2022
• EAN: 9780367234522
• ISBN: 978-0-367-23452-2
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Knowledge Societies in History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Sociology, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / World, Social & cultural history, Society & culture: general, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, Economic history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Communication Studies, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Society and culture: general, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800