- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- This is Enlightenment
- Enlightening Mediation
- Where were the Media before the Media?
- Mediation and the Division of Labor
- Transmitting Liberty
- Modes and Codes
- Mediating Information, 1450–1800
- Mediated Enlightenment
- Romanticism, Enlightenment and Mediation
- The Present of Enlightenment
- The Strange Light of Postcolonial Enlightenment
- Mediating Media Past and Present
- Mediating Antiquarians in Britain, 1760–1830
- Mediating Le Philosophe
- Novel Knowledge
- The Piratical Enlightenment
- Financing Enlightenment, Part One
- Financing Enlightenment, Part Two
- “The Horrifying Ties, From Which the Public Order Originates”
- The Preacher's Footing
- Mediation as Primal Word
- References
- Contributors
- Index
Mediating Information, 1450–1800
Mediating Information, 1450–1800
- Chapter:
- (p.139) Mediating Information, 1450–1800
- Source:
- This Is Enlightenment
- Author(s):
Ann Blair
Peter Stallybrass
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
This chapter argues that the Enlightenment involved not so much a radical break with, but an inheritance of, established technologies for storing, organizing, and retrieving information. In the long history of information management, the first early modern period (ca. 1450–1650) was especially significant in the development of new techniques and the refinement of existing ones to manage an explosion of printed matter and manuscript record keeping. In portraying their work as a radical break from the Renaissance, Enlightenment authors often obscured the indebtedness of their works to preexisting methods of compiling.
Keywords: Enlightenment, print, record keeping, information management, Renaissance
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- This is Enlightenment
- Enlightening Mediation
- Where were the Media before the Media?
- Mediation and the Division of Labor
- Transmitting Liberty
- Modes and Codes
- Mediating Information, 1450–1800
- Mediated Enlightenment
- Romanticism, Enlightenment and Mediation
- The Present of Enlightenment
- The Strange Light of Postcolonial Enlightenment
- Mediating Media Past and Present
- Mediating Antiquarians in Britain, 1760–1830
- Mediating Le Philosophe
- Novel Knowledge
- The Piratical Enlightenment
- Financing Enlightenment, Part One
- Financing Enlightenment, Part Two
- “The Horrifying Ties, From Which the Public Order Originates”
- The Preacher's Footing
- Mediation as Primal Word
- References
- Contributors
- Index
