Author : Seth Kimmel
Release : 2024-05-06
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 186/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Librarian's Atlas by : Seth Kimmel

Download or read book The Librarian's Atlas written by Seth Kimmel. This book was released on 2024-05-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.