Cognition And The Book ─ Typologies Of Formal Organisation Of Knowledge In The Printed Book Of The Early Modern Period

These 19 articles (seven in English, the others in German) emerged from the eponymous 2004 conference at the Freie Universitat Berlin. Exploring the ways the Gutenberg Revolution transformed the organization of textual knowledge, Enenkel (neo-Latin literature, Leiden U., Germany) and Neuber (German literature, Free U. Berlin, Germany) compile essays examining intersections between formal textual features and their genres, content, and intended functions. A sampling of topics: tacit skills in the perspective treatise of the late Renaissance, the relationship between word and image in books on medicine in the eary modern period, and cognition in emblematic fable books--Aegidius Sadeler's Theatrum Morun (1608) and its reception in France. The volume includes b&w drawings and paintings from the early modern period, along with reproductions of original pages from printed books and manuscripts. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Karl Enenkel teaches Latin and Neo-Latin literature in the Department of Classics, Leiden University. He is the author of Francesco Petrarca: De vita solitaria, Buch 1. Kritische Textausgabe und ideengeschichtlicher Kommentar (1990), Kulturoptimismus und Kulturpessimismus in der Renaissance (1995), and numerous articles on Italian and Dutch humanism.Wolfgang Neuber, Ph.D. (1980) in Philosophy, University of Vienna, is Professor of Early Modern German Literature at Freie Universitat Berlin. He has published extensively on the history of rhetoric, on travel accounts and on mnemonics.