Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age
by Ann M. Blair
Before modern systems for organizing knowledge, scholars still faced an abundance of information. Ann M. Blair examines the historical practices used to collect, arrange, preserve, and navigate learning, offering a thoughtful study of how people managed scholarly information in the premodern world.
About This Book
Too Much to Know explores the challenge of managing scholarly information before the modern age.
Ann M. Blair considers how readers and scholars organized, collected, and worked with an expanding body of knowledge.
The book offers historical insight into the methods and habits that helped make information accessible, manageable, and useful.
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