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

by [Kimmel, Seth]

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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.

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  • University of Chicago Pre Brand
  • May 6, 2024 Pub Date:
  • 9780226833170 ISBN-13:
  • 0226833178 ISBN-10:
  • 272.0 pages Hardcover
  • English Language
  • 9 in * 0.9 in * 6 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: