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Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age

Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age

Blair, Ann M.
Tarasova, Elena

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary European Studies

Literary CriticismGeneral ReferenceGeneral World History

ISBN13: 9798887194271
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: Dec 5 2023
Pages: 630
Weight: 2.22
Height: 1.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: Russian
ENG: The internet and digital technologies have generated a flood of texts and widespread worries about information overload. But this phenomenon is not unique to our age. Already centuries ago scholars complained about an overabundance of books, especially in the wake of the invention of printing in mid-15th century Europe. Blair studies the remedies that the learned devised to cope with that explosion of texts, notably by making summaries and excerpts which could be sorted and accessed in reference books. First she traces methods of information management back to antiquity and the middle ages and across cultures with long textual traditions such the Islamic and Chinese worlds. Then she focuses on the tools and practices in use in early modern Europe, such as note-taking, alphabetical indexing, thematic diagramming, and large scale compiling. The result combines intellectual history with book history to emphasize long continuities between past and present.


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