"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

26 May 2017

Integrated.


The back-of-book index is an invention that is so integrated into our everyday reading practices as to be almost invisible. It is hard to imagine scholarly life without it, and indeed the index has its origins in the same historical moment as the arrival of the universities around the turn of the thirteenth century.

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