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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kimmel, Seth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spain--History--Library resources.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2024.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

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 Saʿadī Cultures of the Catalog

Conclusion. "Libraries" and the Shape of Knowledge

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-226-83318-6

OCLC:

1425920050