The Librarian's Atlas

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

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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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780226833170
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Imprint: The University of Chicago Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 027.046
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 526g
Height: 236mm
Width: 160mm
Spine width: 23mm