Librarian's Atlas
Kimmel Seth Kimmel
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Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Buchhandel, Bibliothekswesen
Beschreibung
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.