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9780814256411: Collections in Context: The Organization of Knowledge and Community in Europe (Text and Context)
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ISBN 10: 0814256414 ISBN 13: 9780814256411
Editorial: Ohio State University Press, 2020

Sinopsis

The fourteen essays that comprise Collections in Context: The Organization of Knowledge and Community in Europe interrogate questions posed by French, Flemish, English, and Italian collections of all sorts—libraries as a whole, anthologies and miscellanies assembled within a single manuscript or printed book, and even illustrated ivory boxes.

Collecting became an increasingly important activity during the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries, when the decreased cost of producing books made ownership available to more people. But the act of collecting is never neutral: it gathers information, orders material (especially linear texts), and prioritizes everything—in short, collecting both organizes and comments on knowledge. Moreover, the context of a collection must reveal something about identity, but whose? That of the compiler? The reader or viewer? The donor? The patron?

With essays by a wide array of international scholars, Collections in Context demonstrates that the very act of collecting inevitably imposes some kind of relationship among what might otherwise be naively thought of as disparate elements and simultaneously exposes something about the community that created and used the collection. Thus, Collections in Context offers unusual insights into how collecting both produced knowledge and built community in early modern Europe.

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Acerca del autor

Karen Fresco is associate professor of French and Medieval studies at the University of Illinois. Anne D. Hedeman is professor of art history and Medieval studies at the University of Illinois.

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Editorial
Ohio State University Press
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0814256414
ISBN 13 
9780814256411
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
360
Editor
Fresco Karen, Hedeman Anne D
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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