The Intellectual Properties of Learning : A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke / John Willinsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Willinsky, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Learning and scholarship--History.

Learning and scholarship.

Learned institutions and societies--History.

Learned institutions and societies.

Intellectual property.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Providing a sweeping millennium-plus history of the learned book in the West, John Willinsky puts current debates over intellectual property into context, asking what it is about learning that helped to create the concept even as it gave the products of knowledge a different legal and economic standing than other sorts of property. Willinsky begins with Saint Jerome in the fifth century, then traces the evolution of reading, writing, and editing practices in monasteries, schools, universities, and among independent scholars through the medieval period and into the Renaissance. He delves into the influx of Islamic learning and the rediscovery of classical texts, the dissolution of the monasteries, and the founding of the Bodleian Library before finally arriving at John Locke, whose influential lobbying helped bring about the first copyright law, the Statute of Anne of 1710. Willinsky's bravura tour through this history shows that learning gave rise to our idea of intellectual property while remaining distinct from, if not wholly uncompromised by, the commercial economy that this concept inspired, making it clear that today's push for marketable intellectual property threatens the very nature of the quest for learning on which it rests.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter One. The Commonwealth of Learning

Part One: Monastery and School

Chapter Two. The Medieval Monastic Paradox

Chapter Three. Learning in the Early Middle Ages

Chapter Four. The Patronage of Medieval Learning

Chapter Five. The Learned Turn of the High Middle Ages

Part Two. University and Academy

Chapter Six. The Translation Movements of Islamic Learning

Chapter Seven. The Medieval Universities of Oxford and Paris

Chapter Eight. The Humanist Revival

Chapter Nine. Learned Academies and Societies

Chapter Ten. Early Modern Oxford and Cambridge

Part Three. Locke and Property

Chapter Eleven. A Theory of Property

Chapter Twelve. An Act for the Encouragement of Learning

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

9780226488080

022648808X

OCLC:

1017098189