The Librarian's Atlas : The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain
by
Seth Kimmel
Book Details
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0226854477
ISBN-13
9780226854472
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 23rd, 2026
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
454 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 2.30 cms
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A history of early modern libraries and the imperial desire for total knowledge—now in paperback. 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.
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