9780814211717 - collections in context: the organization of knowledge and community in europe (2 risultati)
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2011., 2011
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Condizione: Near Fine. 8vo., pp.xvii,341, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations;a fresh and near- fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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Hardcover. Condizione: New. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- 360 pp. ; 50 illus. -- with a bonus offer--; The fourteen essays that comprise Collections in Context: The Organization of Knowledg…e and Community in Europe interrogate questions posed by French, Flemish, English, and Italian collections of all sortsâ"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 everythingâ"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.
