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

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.

Product details

• Authors: Seth Kimmel, Kimmel Seth
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2024
• EAN: 9780226833170
• ISBN: 978-0-226-83317-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; History: specific events & topics, Spain, HISTORY / General, Morocco, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, History: specific events and topics, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, Library & Information Sciences, Library and information sciences / Museology