The librarian's atlas
the shape of knowledge in early modern Spain
- ISBN: 9780226833170
- Editorial: University of Chicago Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2024
- Lugar de la edición: Chicago. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 272
- Idiomas: Inglés
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.
List of Figures
Introduction Books in Place
One Hernando Colón´s Cosmography
Two Routes of Antiquarianism: From Seville to San Lorenzo
Three A Universal Library for Philip II: Juan Páez de Castro and the Escorial´s Order of Knowledge
Four Biblioteca and Biblia: Benito Arias Montano´s Logics of Place
Five This Holy Land: Semitic Philology and Peninsular Toponymy
Six Spanish Orientalism and Saadi Cultures of the Catalog
Conclusion: "Libraries"vand the Shape of Knowledge
