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Overview"A compelling alternative account of the history of knowledge from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Until now the history of knowledge has largely been about formal and documented accumulation, concentrating on systems, collections, academies, and institutions. The central narrative has been one of advancement, refinement, and expansion. Martin Mulsow tells a different story. Knowledge can be lost: manuscripts are burned, oral learning dies with its bearers, new ideas are suppressed by censors. Knowledge Lost is a history of efforts, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, to counter such loss. It describes how critics of ruling political and religious regimes developed tactics to preserve their views; how they buried their ideas in footnotes and allusions; how they circulated their tracts and treatises in handwritten copies; and how they commissioned younger scholars to spread their writings after death. Filled with exciting stories, Knowledge Lost follows the trail of precarious knowledge through a series of richly detailed episodes. It deals not with the major themes of metaphysics and epistemology, but rather with interpretations of the Bible, Orientalism, and such marginal zones as magic. And it focuses not on the usual major thinkers, but rather on forgotten or half-forgotten members of the ""knowledge underclass,"" such as Pietro della Vecchia, a libertine painter and intellectual; Charles-Csar Baudelot, an antiquarian and numismatist; and Johann Christoph Wolf, a pastor, Hebrew scholar, and witness to the persecution of heretics. Offering a fascinating new approach to the intellectual history of early modern Europe, Knowledge Lost is also an ambitious attempt to rethink the very concept of knowledge." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Martin Mulsow , H. C. Erik MidelfortPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press ISBN: 9780691208657ISBN 10: 0691208654 Pages: 456 Publication Date: 01 November 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviews"""Fascinating.""---David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer" Author InformationMartin Mulsow is professor of intellectual history at the University of Erfurt, where he directs the Gotha Research Center for Early Modern Studies. He is the author of Enlightenment Underground: Radical Germany, 16801720 and Accidental Radicals: The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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