Between encyclopedia and chorography : defining the agency of "cultural encyclopedias" from a transcultural perspective / edited by Anna Boroffka

English

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2022]

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110748017

Frontmatter

Preface and acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction: Regionally specified knowledge compendia between encyclopedia and chorography

I Universal history, encyclopedia, and chorography: Early modern practices and forms of knowledge compilation

The local, the regional, and the universal in knowledge compilations: Observations on the Codex Aldenburgensis

Encyclopedia and dictionaries in premodern and early modern Japan: Chinese heritage and the local reordering of knowledge

Imago et descriptio: Narrating Sicily in the modern period

II Creating and organizing New Spanish knowledge: Early colonial compendia and "cultural encyclopedias"

Dreams and the sacred thresholds of P'urhépecha power in the Relación de Michoacán

Constructing a native heritage in New Spain? Bernardino de Sahagún's Florentine Codex (1577) as a "cultural encyclopedia"

Order and organization of knowledge on the New World in José de Acosta's Historia natural y moral de las Indias (1590)

The problem solver: Colonial knowledge, authority, and the compilation of natural marvels in Juan de Cárdenas's Problemas y secretos (1591)

III Writing history and depicting knowledge: Compendia and "cultural encyclopedias" from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries

Mastering the chaos of cross-cultural encounter in Andrés Pérez de Ribas's Historia de los triumphos de nuestra santa fee (1645)

Jesuit historiography and the making of the Kingdom of Quito: Juan de Velasco's Historia del Reino de Quito (1789)

A mid-nineteenth-century ethnographic atlas of the Tibetan world: The British Library's Wise Collection

Notes on the contributors

*Enzyklopädie / Wissensproduktion / Kulturkontakt / Lokales Wissen

*HISTORY / Modern / General ; Early modern period ; compilations ; regional knowledge

Dewey Decimal Classification: 030.903

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: NQ 5060: N Geschichte / NQ Geschichte seit 1918 / Außenpolitik

bisacsh: HIS037030

During the early modern period, regional specified compendia - which combine information on local moral and natural history, towns and fortifications with historiography, antiquarianism, images series or maps - gain a new agency in the production of knowledge. Via literary and aesthetic practices, the compilations construct a display of regional specified knowledge. In some cases this display of regional knowledge is presented as a display of a local cultural identity and is linked to early modern practices of comparing and classifying civilizations. At the core of the publication are compendia on the Americas which research has described as chorographies, encyclopeadias or - more recently - 'cultural encyclopaedias'. Studies on Asian and European encyclopeadias, universal histories and chorographies help to contextualize the American examples in the broader field of an early modern and transcultural knowledge production, which inherits and modifies the ancient and medieval tradition

 

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