Title Too much to know : managing scholarly information before the modern age / Ann M. Blair

Published New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2010] ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 397 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles Contents Information management in comparative perspective -- Note-taking as information management -- Reference genres and their finding devices -- Compilers, their motivations and methods -- The impact of early printed reference books Summary The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a distressing sense of 'information overload', yet this experience is not unique to modern times. In fact, says Ann Blair in this intriguing book, the invention of the printing press and the ensuing abundance of books provoked sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European scholars to register complaints very similar to our own. The author examines methods of information management in ancient and medieval Europe as well as the Islamic world and China, then focuses particular attention on the organization, composition, and reception of Latin reference books in print in early modern Europe. She explores in detail the sophisticated and sometimes idiosyncratic techniques that scholars and readers developed in an era of new technology and exploding information Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-379) and index Subject Reference books, Latin -- Europe -- History -- 16th century Reference books, Latin -- Europe -- History -- 17th century Reference books -- History Communication in learning and scholarship -- Europe -- History -- 16th century Communication in learning and scholarship -- Europe -- History -- 17th century Note-taking -- History Bibliography -- Europe -- History -- 16th century Bibliography -- Europe -- History -- 17th century HISTORY -- Modern -- General. Reference books, Latin -- Europe -- History -- 16th century. Reference books, Latin -- Europe -- History -- 17th century. Reference books -- History. Communication in learning and scholarship -- Europe -- History -- 16th century. Communication in learning and scholarship -- Europe -- History -- 17th century. Note-taking -- History. Bibliography -- Europe -- History -- 16th century. Bibliography -- Europe -- History -- 17th century. Bibliography Communication in learning and scholarship Intellectual life Note-taking Reference books Reference books, Latin Wissenschaftliche Literatur Informationsverarbeitung Nachschlagewerk Wissenschaftliche Literatur. Informationsverarbeitung. Wissenschaftstheorie. Bibliografi -- historia -- Europa -- 1500-talet. Bibliografi -- historia -- Europa -- 1600-talet. SUBJECT Europe -- Intellectual life -- 16th century Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045727 Subject Europe -- Intellectual life -- 16th century. Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. Europe Europa Europa -- intellektuellt liv -- 1500-talet. Europa -- intellektuellt liv -- 1600-talet. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2010024663 ISBN 9780300168495 0300168497 9780300168495

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