The 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...
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Author: Seth Kimmel
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Language: English
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The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain by Kimmel, Seth

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

$169.88

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

$169.88
Author: Seth Kimmel
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.

Author: Seth Kimmel
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 05/06/2024
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780226833170

About the Author
Seth Kimmel is associate professor of Latin American and Iberian cultures at Columbia University. He is the author of Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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