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Miscellaneous Order - Manuscript Culture and the Early Modern Organization of Knowledge (Hardcover)
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Miscellaneous Order - Manuscript Culture and the Early Modern Organization of Knowledge (Hardcover)
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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.
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