The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago/London, 2024
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262pp. Black boards, silver lettering. illustrated. As new in new unclipped pictorial jacket. 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 Librarians 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 booklovers dream of a comprehensive and well-organized library shaped an expanded sense of the world itself. Size: Octavo.
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- Title
- The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain
- Author
- Kimmel, Seth
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press, Chicago/London
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0226833178
- ISBN 13
- 9780226833170
- Edition
- First Edition.
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.
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