Summary Of Dennis Duncan S Index A History Of The
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Summary of Dennis Duncan's Index, A History of the
Author: Everest Media,
language: en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date: 2022-03-22T22:59:00Z
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The story of Henry Rhodes Hamilton, a man who may have been one of the most remarkable figures of the twentieth century, is told through an alphabetical index. The reader must piece together a narrative using only keywords, brief subheadings, and the sense of chronology provided by the page numbers. #2 The index is a strange, miraculous thing. It is something we take for granted, but something that appeared out of nowhere 2,000 years ago and is used every day. It is a system of ordering works of art by the artists’ surnames. #3 The alphabetical exhibition is not hard to understand. It is a great leveller, and nothing is implied by its ordering. But what about the viewer. What about us as potential visitors to the show. #4 The first English dictionary, published in 1604, was written by Robert Cawdrey. It was considered the first example of alphabetical order in English. While we may not appreciate an alphabetical art show, we will happily use alphabetical order in other contexts.
Index, A History of the
*A TIME, New Yorker, Financial Times and History Today Book of the Year* 'Hilarious' Sam Leith 'I loved this book' Susie Dent' 'Witty and affectionate' Lynne Truss Perfect for book lovers, a delightful history of the wonders to be found in the humble book index Most of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up. But here, hiding in plain sight, is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. Here we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. This is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past. Here, for the first time, its story is told. Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Dennis Duncan reveals how the index 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.
Reading the Margins of the Early Modern Bible
Author: Ezra Horbury
language: en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date: 2024-07-11
Reading the Margins of the Early Modern Bible presents a new understanding of how notes in the margins of the Bible were read in early modernity. Horbury investigates the creative and surprising ways readers engaged with these margins, resisting narratives that present them as dangerous and seditious.