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Storing, Archiving, Organizing: The Changing Dynamics of Scholarly Information Management in Post-Reformation Zurich is a study of the Lectorium at the Zurich Grossmünster, the earliest of post-Reformation Swiss academies, initiated by the church reformer Huldrych Zwingli in 1523. This institution of higher education was planned in the wake of humanism and according to the demands of the reforming church. Scrutinizing the institutional archival records, Anja-Silvia Goeing shows how the lectorium’s teachers used practices of storing, archiving, and organizing to create an elaborate administrative structure to deal with students and to identify their own didactic and disciplinary methods. She finds techniques developing that we today would consider important to understand the history of information management and knowledge transfer.
Price: $223.00
Pages: 468
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Library of the Written Word
Publication Date:
12 December 2016
ISBN: 9789004334731
Format: Other
"At every step, Goeing keeps her focus on intellectual tools: how were they structured, how were they deployed, and how did they circulate or mutate in changing circumstances? This approach makes her book an innovative contribution to the history of erudition and intellectual organization in the late sixteenth century.[...] the innovative approaches that Goeing brings to her material and her ability to connect the abundant Zurich sources to diverse branches of scholarship through wide-ranging references to the literature make this an important and challenging monograph." - Randolph C. Head, University of California, Riverside, in: Renaissance Quarterly, vol. LXXI, no. 1
Anja-Silvia Goeing, Privatdozent at Zurich University/visiting fellow at Harvard, has written about humanist biographies (1999; 2014) and co-edited volumes about textbooks and collectors’ knowledge (2008; 2013). Most recently, she co-edited For the Sake of Learning (2016), dedicated to Anthony Grafton.