Author: H.W. de KookerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004614516
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
With an introduction by H.W. de Kooker.
The Catalogus Universalis
Author: H.W. de KookerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004614516
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
With an introduction by H.W. de Kooker.
The Bookshop of the World
Author: Andrew PettegreePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300245297
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world’s greatest bibliophiles. The Dutch Golden Age has long been seen as the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, whose paintings captured the public imagination and came to represent the marvel that was the Dutch Republic. Yet there is another, largely overlooked marvel in the Dutch world of the seventeenth century: books. In this fascinating account, Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen show how the Dutch produced many more books than pictures and bought and owned more books per capita than any other part of Europe. Key innovations in marketing, book auctions, and newspaper advertising brought stability to a market where elsewhere publishers faced bankruptcy, and created a population uniquely well-informed and politically engaged. This book tells for the first time the remarkable story of the Dutch conquest of the European book world and shows the true extent to which these pious, prosperous, quarrelsome, and generous people were shaped by what they read. “Book history at its best.” —Robert Darnton, New York Review of Books “Compelling and impressive.” —THES (Book of the Week) “An instant classic on Dutch book history.” —BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review
Religion, Politics and Thomas Hobbes
Author: George WrightPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781402044670
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This collection develops insight into the relation which Hobbes describes between his theory of government and the three-part division he draws with respect to religion. Pursuing the chain of causes that proves God's existence as first cause, Hobbes identifies and defines both "true religion" and such superstition as he found in the theology and practices of the Roman Catholic Church of his era. He then emphasizes the difference between natural religion and revealed religion in order to extinguish the claim of contemporary theologians to an authority in the state greater than that of the political sovereign. Although, according to the author, Hobbes falters in carrying out his politico/theological project, his careful, radical and innovative attempt to describe the relationship of religion and politics, church and state, has special relevance for us today, as forms of religious fundamentalism in many countries are increasingly claiming and, in some cases, winning control of political institutions.
Taking Stock
Author: Sean B. FranzelPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111061361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The volume examines the proliferation of inventorying models and practices as cultural techniques of knowledge organization and production during the long nineteenth century. While inventories are still broadly treated as raw data and unprocessed source materials, the book shows how they function as complex media formats, intersecting and interfering with other material techniques to produce, store, distribute, organize and process cultural information. How do inventories work against and in dialogue with other media of collection, storage and retrieval such as catalogs, indexes, bibliographies, and archives; what new media configurations do techniques of inventorying enable and how, in turn, are such techniques shaped by the media channels and formats they employ; what is at stake in the critical effort of "taking stock", whether as commercial, bureaucratic, literary, historiographical, or scientific operations; finally, what do such operations tell us specifically about the production and circulation of knowledge in the German nineteenth century?
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H.M. Signet in Scotland
Author: Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H.M. Signet in Scotland: Second supplement ... 1882-1887, with a subject index to the whole catalogue
Author: Society of Writers to H.M. Signet. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
The Earliest Catalogues of the Bodleian Library
Author: George William WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Library of Franeker University in Context, 1585–1843
Author: Jacob van SluisPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004352260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
From 1585 to 1843, the Dutch town Franeker housed the University of Franeker. It had its peak in the seventeenth century and attracted students from Protestant countries throughout Europe. A library was founded right from the start and its collection has been preserved almost entirely. Eleven catalogues were printed in the course of its existence, and as a result the development of the collection can be examined chronologically. The Library of Franeker University in Context, 1585–1843 discusses the relationship with education at Franeker University in detail, and makes a comparison with other similar libraries.
The Library World
Author: Early English Printed Books in the University Library, Cambridge (1475 to 1640)
Author: Cambridge University LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description