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Pure and Perfect: Reading Knowledge, Information, and Status in Early Modern England Through Manorial Accounting of the Landed Elites.

  • Published In: Information & Culture, 2025, v. 60, n. 2. P. 194 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Woodall, Angela 3 of 3

Abstract

This case study explores technological, intellectual, and social change by looking at the development of information culture in early modern Europe. I do this by analyzing a set of manorial accounting books spanning the years 1577–1801. I first document the progression and consolidation of information systems developed during this time. I then highlight their relationship to normative values expounded in didactic instructional treatises. Lastly, I consider the material, intellectual, and cultural relationship between information and status. Understanding this earlier encounter with information systems and expert texts contributes a textured understanding of a transition to new forms of information technologies familiar to our own in the twenty-first century and their normative character. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Information & Culture. 2025/05, Vol. 60, Issue 2, p194
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2025
  • ISSN:2164-8034
  • DOI:10.1353/lac.00015
  • Accession Number:187704258
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