Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age by Dennis Duncan is now available for free ePub download or online reading.<\/p>\n
Intro:<\/strong><\/p>\n Most of us give little thought to the back of the book\u2014it\u2019s just where you go to look things up. But here is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known history.<\/p>\n Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Dennis Duncan reveals how the index has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office, and made us all into the readers we are today. We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists\u2019 living rooms and university laboratories, encountering emperors and popes, philosophers and prime ministers, poets, librarians, and\u2014of course\u2014indexers along the way. Duncan reveals the vast role of the index in our evolving literary and intellectual culture, and he shows that in the Age of Search we are all index-rakers<\/em> at heart.. First published September 2, 2021. Original format: Hardcover. Pages: 343. #index-a-history-of-the-ebook #index-a-history-of-the-epub #read #download<\/p>\n User Rating: 3.68 (based on 1731 ratings)<\/p>\n Download EPUB Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age by Dennis Duncan<\/strong><\/p>\n \ud83d\udcc1 File details: index-a-history-of-the.epub<\/em><\/p>\n