The Librarian’s Atlas:The Shape of Knowledge in Early Mode Spain

by: Seth Kimmel (Author)

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Publication Date: 2024/5/6

Language: English

Print Length: 272 pages

ISBN-10: 0226833178

ISBN-13: 9780226833170

Book Description

A history of early mode libraries and the imperial desire for total knowledge.   Medieval scholars imagined the library as a microcosm of the world, but as novel early mode 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.

About the Author

A history of early mode libraries and the imperial desire for total knowledge.   Medieval scholars imagined the library as a microcosm of the world, but as novel early mode 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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