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Index, A History of the - A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age (Hardcover)
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Index, A History of the - A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age (Hardcover)
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Most of us give little thought to the back of the book-it's just
where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in
this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an
unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking,
pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find
Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch
Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. Here, for the first time, is
the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday
tool, with an illustrious but little-known past. Charting its
curious path from the monasteries and universities of
thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first,
Duncan uncovers how it has saved heretics from the stake, kept
politicians from high office, and made us all into the readers we
are today. We follow it through German print shops and
Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists' living rooms and university
laboratories, encountering emperors and popes, philosophers and
prime ministers, poets, librarians and-of course-indexers along the
way. Revealing its vast role in our evolving literary and
intellectual culture, Duncan shows that, for all our anxieties
about the Age of Search, we are all index-rakers at heart-and we
have been for eight hundred years.
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