Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age Duncan Dennis
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age Duncan Dennis Most of us give little thought to the back of the book--it's just where you go to look things…
Specifikacia Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age Duncan Dennis
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age Duncan Dennis
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book--it's just where you go to look things up. In the pages of the index, we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play.
We follow it through Here, for the first time, is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past.Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Duncan uncovers how it has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office, and made us all into the readers we are today.
Index, A History of the