Yes, that's what I thought. Most of the scholarship is in Portuguese or Italian and just hasn't been an aspect of these wars we monolinguists are aware of much. Fabien Montcher, very scholarly, is also very funny in the way he describes the Scholars of Fortune snarking at each other about the quality of their libraries...and their bookbinding. I'd use a laughing emoji here if the platform permitted.
"The study of Nogueira’s itinerary demonstrates the need for a history of early modern scholarship that takes into account the ways that early modern politics and state communication systems were connected by learned networks."
'...that early european empires would've fallen apart without.'
"The theme of the conference, “Libraries, Archives, Properties,” was meant to address the looming crisis in the preservation of records of our cultures, mostly printed or written, but also visual and aural. "
Ya know, back in 2009, I was arguing one of the infrastructure things the Obama administration could do would be to expand and convert the LoC into a National Library System and hire a bunch of people to not just scan but OCR, convert and typeset all those old print works into readable and pretty-printed for the screen stuff that would be filed online properly. Toss in scanning of literally everything printed, plus buy up all those old video games, OSes and utility and manuals (and the rights thereof). Once all that stuff was properly converted and filed, it's done more or less forever. Find anything quick and access it quick and quote it quick, and the data mines are wide open.
The Very Smart political people gave me the internet equivalent of a dull-eyed stare and went back to arguing about cutting the deficit and bombing Iran. Could be a brilliant lot... just ain't.
"This article highlights the political valence of historical knowledge that was gathered and distributed throughout the Republic of Letters with emphasis on the code-switching of a scholar who styled himself differently across learned communities depending on his political circumstances, interests, and interlocutors."
I am very tempted to say 'doesn't everybody code switch like that?'
You are right...it is do-able. But so many economic interests cut up access. I used my access through a university library to read “Libraries, Archives, Properties,” and then looked to see what authors had made their work "open access." Montchar did have some articles that can be read. This is a challenge for which we have solutions, but $$$ get in the way..and maybe lack of general interest. But I can lose myself in these and I am sure many people would if they could gain access. I love this period of book history when books were the treasure.
This is far more interesting than it should be... thanks for this!
Yes, that's what I thought. Most of the scholarship is in Portuguese or Italian and just hasn't been an aspect of these wars we monolinguists are aware of much. Fabien Montcher, very scholarly, is also very funny in the way he describes the Scholars of Fortune snarking at each other about the quality of their libraries...and their bookbinding. I'd use a laughing emoji here if the platform permitted.
"The study of Nogueira’s itinerary demonstrates the need for a history of early modern scholarship that takes into account the ways that early modern politics and state communication systems were connected by learned networks."
'...that early european empires would've fallen apart without.'
"The theme of the conference, “Libraries, Archives, Properties,” was meant to address the looming crisis in the preservation of records of our cultures, mostly printed or written, but also visual and aural. "
Ya know, back in 2009, I was arguing one of the infrastructure things the Obama administration could do would be to expand and convert the LoC into a National Library System and hire a bunch of people to not just scan but OCR, convert and typeset all those old print works into readable and pretty-printed for the screen stuff that would be filed online properly. Toss in scanning of literally everything printed, plus buy up all those old video games, OSes and utility and manuals (and the rights thereof). Once all that stuff was properly converted and filed, it's done more or less forever. Find anything quick and access it quick and quote it quick, and the data mines are wide open.
The Very Smart political people gave me the internet equivalent of a dull-eyed stare and went back to arguing about cutting the deficit and bombing Iran. Could be a brilliant lot... just ain't.
"This article highlights the political valence of historical knowledge that was gathered and distributed throughout the Republic of Letters with emphasis on the code-switching of a scholar who styled himself differently across learned communities depending on his political circumstances, interests, and interlocutors."
I am very tempted to say 'doesn't everybody code switch like that?'
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like a fish swimming
You are right...it is do-able. But so many economic interests cut up access. I used my access through a university library to read “Libraries, Archives, Properties,” and then looked to see what authors had made their work "open access." Montchar did have some articles that can be read. This is a challenge for which we have solutions, but $$$ get in the way..and maybe lack of general interest. But I can lose myself in these and I am sure many people would if they could gain access. I love this period of book history when books were the treasure.