Contextualizing Practical Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

ISBN-13: 9783631780442 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 316 str.

Annemie Leemans

Opis

The topic of this book is practical knowledge in early modern Europe, interpreted widely as recipes containing art procedures or medical panaceas. In this book the 1) origin or creation, 2) transmission or dissemination, and 3) use or consumption are key subjects. It includes a microhistory approach to the book A Very Proper Treatise (1573).

Spis treści

Practical knowledge: construction, transmission and users - Secret, silent, tacit, useful and common knowledge - Deleuze and Guattari's Rhizome - Kunstbuchlein - Workshop - Laboratory - Secret society - Professors of secrets - Gatekeepers and mediators - A Very Proper Treatise - Richard Tottel

O autorze

Annemie D.G. Leemans is an art historian from the University of Bologna. She obtained her PhD in interdisciplinary history at the University of Kent and University of Porto through the Erasmus Mundus Joint Degree known as TEEME. Currently, she is a researcher in the Transdisciplinary Research Centre "Culture, Space and Memory" (CITCEM) at the University of Porto.