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Miscellaneous Order
Manuscript Culture and the Early Modern Organization of Knowledge
«This is a richly researched, elegantly written and important book that everyone interested in early modern manuscript construction, textual composition, information management and knowledge discovery will want to read.»
Jonathan Gibson, The Spenser Review
This book examines one of the most pervasive, but also perplexing, textual phenomena of the early modern world: the manuscript miscellany. Faced with multiple problems of definition, categorization, and (often conflicting) terminology, modern scholars have tended to dismiss the miscellany as disorganized and chaotic. Les mer
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This book examines one of the most pervasive, but also perplexing, textual phenomena of the early modern world: the manuscript miscellany. Faced with multiple problems of definition, categorization, and (often conflicting) terminology, modern scholars have tended to dismiss the miscellany as disorganized and chaotic. Miscellaneous Order radically challenges that view by uncovering the various forms of organization and order previously hidden in early modern
manuscript books. Drawing on original literary and historical research, and examining both the materiality of early modern manuscripts and their contents, this book sheds new light on the transcriptive and archival practices of early modern Britain, as well as on the broader intellectual context of manuscript
culture and its scholarly afterlives.
Based on extensive archival research, and interdisciplinary in both subject and matter, Miscellaneous Order focuses on the myriad kinds of manuscript compiled and produced in the early modern era. Showing that the miscellany was essential to the organization of knowledge across a range of genres and disciplines, from poetry to science, and from recipe books to accounts, it proposes a new model for understanding the proliferation of manuscript material in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries. By restoring attention to 'miscellaneous order' in this way, it shows that we have fundamentally misunderstood how early modern men and women read, wrote, and thought. Rather than a textual form characterized by an absence of order, the miscellany, it argues, operated as an epistemically and
aesthetically productive system throughout the early modern period.
manuscript books. Drawing on original literary and historical research, and examining both the materiality of early modern manuscripts and their contents, this book sheds new light on the transcriptive and archival practices of early modern Britain, as well as on the broader intellectual context of manuscript
culture and its scholarly afterlives.
Based on extensive archival research, and interdisciplinary in both subject and matter, Miscellaneous Order focuses on the myriad kinds of manuscript compiled and produced in the early modern era. Showing that the miscellany was essential to the organization of knowledge across a range of genres and disciplines, from poetry to science, and from recipe books to accounts, it proposes a new model for understanding the proliferation of manuscript material in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries. By restoring attention to 'miscellaneous order' in this way, it shows that we have fundamentally misunderstood how early modern men and women read, wrote, and thought. Rather than a textual form characterized by an absence of order, the miscellany, it argues, operated as an epistemically and
aesthetically productive system throughout the early modern period.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780198809708
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
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«This is a richly researched, elegantly written and important book that everyone interested in early modern manuscript construction, textual composition, information management and knowledge discovery will want to read.»
Jonathan Gibson, The Spenser Review
«Miscellaneous Order is an important book that achieves its ambition, which is to help us to understand the habits of collecting and organizing material from diverse sources in early modern England. It persuaded me that miscellany-making lies at the heart of early modern intellectual culture. This book offers a big-picture view of the history of the early modern miscellany.»
Jennifer Richards, Modern Language Review
«[a] remarkable contribution to recent scholarship ... Vine's formalist approach to the analysis of his source materials offers an innovative contribution to the field because of its resistance to an exclusive interest in particular subjects, personalities, or contents that have defined other major contributions to the fields of textual scholarship, critical bibliography, and manuscript studies in recent years. Vine argues effectively that the early modern material forms and practices embedded in manuscript miscellanies reflect how early modern community developed in the 'broader intellectual context of manuscript culture'»
Jason E. Cohen, The Library
«Miscellaneous Order can be used as a reference on particular topics, but because Vine weaves important themes through each of the book's chapters, it rewards linear reading. Of obvious interest to manuscript scholars and book historians, the book also has much to offer intellectual historians, historians of science, and literary critics, making its potential audience as heterogeneous as the books it describes. In short, Miscellaneous Order is an important contribution to our understanding of early modern manuscript miscellanies as complex, diverse, occasionally puzzling, and invariably rich documents.»
Erin A. McCarthy, Renaissance Studies
«Miscellaneous Order balances the theoretical and the practical most admirably. This really is an exceptionally good book: a delight to read and full of information and insight.»
John Considine, Notes and Queries
«Having read Vine's book...historians might no longer put an odd volume aside, take note of this as a "miscellaneous" item, and move on. Instead, some might seek to understand what these texts tell us about the rich and diverse figures that once produced them.»
Tom Tölle, Universität Hamburg, H-Soz-Kult
«It is a valuable study for scholars interested in better understanding miscellanies and early modern manuscript culture more generally.»
Simone Hanebaum, The Seventeenth Century
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