Between encyclopedia and chorography : defining the agency of "cultural encyclopedias" from a transcultural perspective / edited by Anna Boroffka, Margit Kern.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kern, Margit, editor.

Boroffka, Anna, editor.

Series:

Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in History

Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in History ; v.12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern.

Modernism (Literature).

Antiquities.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Early works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (456 pages)

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter, [2022]

Summary:

How was knowledge produced by different people in different times and at different places? How was knowledge stored, managed, classified, organized, deployed, forgotten, and recycled? Finally, how did such practices affect what counted as knowledge? The series invites contributions on the 'long' early modern period in Europe and publishes also works on global cultures of knowledge under European influence.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface and acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction: Regionally specified knowledge compendia between encyclopedia and chorography

I Universal history, encyclopedia, and chorography: Early modern practices and forms of knowledge compilation

The local, the regional, and the universal in knowledge compilations: Observations on the Codex Aldenburgensis

Encyclopedia and dictionaries in premodern and early modern Japan: Chinese heritage and the local reordering of knowledge

Imago et descriptio: Narrating Sicily in the modern period

II Creating and organizing New Spanish knowledge: Early colonial compendia and “cultural encyclopedias”

Dreams and the sacred thresholds of P’urhépecha power in the Relación de Michoacán

Constructing a native heritage in New Spain? Bernardino de Sahagún’s Florentine Codex (1577) as a “cultural encyclopedia”

Order and organization of knowledge on the New World in José de Acosta’s Historia natural y moral de las Indias (1590)

The problem solver: Colonial knowledge, authority, and the compilation of natural marvels in Juan de Cárdenas’s Problemas y secretos (1591)

III Writing history and depicting knowledge: Compendia and “cultural encyclopedias” from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries

Mastering the chaos of cross-cultural encounter in Andrés Pérez de Ribas’s Historia de los triumphos de nuestra santa fee (1645)

Jesuit historiography and the making of the Kingdom of Quito: Juan de Velasco’s Historia del Reino de Quito (1789)

A mid-nineteenth-century ethnographic atlas of the Tibetan world: The British Library’s Wise Collection

Notes on the contributors

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-074801-0