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From Lived Experience to the Written Word - Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World (Paperback)
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From Lived Experience to the Written Word - Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World (Paperback)
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How and why early modern European artisans began to record their
knowledge. In From Lived Experience to the Written Word, Pamela H.
Smith considers how and why, beginning in 1400 CE, European
craftspeople began to write down their making practices. Rather
than simply passing along knowledge in the workshop, these literate
artisans chose to publish handbooks, guides, treatises, tip sheets,
graphs, and recipe books, sparking early technical writing and
laying the groundwork for how we think about scientific knowledge
today. Focusing on metalworking from 1400-1800 CE, Smith looks at
the nature of craft knowledge and skill, studying present-day and
historical practices, objects, recipes, and artisanal manuals. From
these sources, she considers how we can reconstruct centuries of
largely lost knowledge. In doing so, she aims not only to unearth
the techniques, material processes, and embodied experience of the
past but also to gain insight into the lifeworld of artisans and
their understandings of matter.
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