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Too much to know
2010
Overview
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 M. 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. Blair 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.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Subject
/ Bibliography -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
/ Bibliography -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
/ Communication in learning and scholarship
/ Communication in learning and scholarship -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
/ Communication in learning and scholarship -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
/ Encyclopedias and dictionaries
/ Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Latin
/ Europa
/ Europe
/ Europe -- Intellectual life -- 16th century
/ Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
/ HISTORY
/ Information and communication technologies
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
/ Reference books, Latin -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
/ Reference books, Latin -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
/ Wissen
ISBN
9780300112511, 0300112513, 9780300165395, 0300165390, 0300168497, 9780300168495
