Late 16th-Century Court Libraries: Termini or Temporary Stops in the Process of Knowledge Circulation? (original) (raw)

Abstract

The paper focuses on the tension between location and circulation of knowledge from the laboratory of a court library at the end of the 16th century. In order to clarify this tension I take as example the catalogue of the Imperial library in Vienna entitled "In favour and against the Turks" drawn up by the Imperial librarian Hugo Blotius in 1576. In the paper I try to reconstruct both the channels of this catalogue's circulation and the political reasons underpinning its creation. As a result, the tensions between location and circulation is analysed under the perspective of the tension between knowledge and power.

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