📢 New Book Alert!
📜 'Synopses and Lists: Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World' is out now!
Textual practices in #premodern societies cover many representations, from the #literary to the #pictorial. Among the most intriguing are #synopses and lists. While lists provide a complete enumeration of ideas, people, events, or terms, synopses juxtapose one against the other.
To understand how they were planned, produced, and consumed, is to gain insight into the practices of what one can call the management of #knowledge in a time before our own.
This volume offers a #historical and transcultural perspective on synopses and lists, highlighting the centrality of these textual practices to allow storing, retrieving, selecting, and organising this knowledge. Both make deliberate – yet not always explicit – choices as to what is included and excluded, thereby creating lasting hierarchies and canons.
Download for free/get a copy: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0375
