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The Librarian's Atlas: Shape of Knowledge Early Modern Spain
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The Librarian's Atlas: Shape of Knowledge Early Modern Spain
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The Librarian's Atlas: Shape of Knowledge Early Modern Spain
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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
, 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 Moroccoclose readings of catalogs, marginalia, indexes, commentaries, and mapsKimmel reveals how the booklover’s dream of a comprehensive and well-organized library shaped an expanded sense of the world itself.