Simone Pia Zweifel
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  • Publication
    The Book Index – An experimental indexical conference report. Online on: https://bookhistorynetwork.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/__trashed/ [11.12.2017].
    (https://bookhistorynetwork.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/__trashed/, 2017-07-31)
    Zweifel, Simone
    Conference Report: "The Book Index", Conference in Oxford, June 2017
    Type: digital resource
    Volume: Book History and Print Culture Network. Online on: https://bookhistorynetwork.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/__trashed/.
    URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/102152
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    Aus Büchern Bücher machen : zur Produktion und Multiplikation von Wissen in frühneuzeitlichen Kompilationen
    (Universität St. Gallen, 2020)
    Zweifel, Simone Pia
    Books of Secrets were very popular in the early modern period: they were translated, reworked, newly compiled and published again and again. Due to these practices, they disseminated rapidly into different linguistical and geographical spaces and circulated until the eighteenth century. A very important actor in this dissemination and multiplication of Books of Secrets and the knowledge saved in these books was Johann Jacob Wecker (1528-1586). This is shown by over 80 Secreti, issued in his name in Latin, German, French, and English until the mid-eighteenth century. Despite the high importance of Wecker, he is marginally researched. This dissertation aims to fill this desideratum. On the basis of a microhistorical approach, it shows that this fast textual production was only possible due to different compilation networks. They and not one author stood behind these publications. Compilation networks did not only consist of several people, but also of things, especially books, and external factors. An example for the latter is the Frankfurt book fair. Its point in time could affect the final content of a book. Actors of the compilation networks enacted book practices" to enable the publication of Books of Secrets. Book practices" are practices oriented towards the production of books. They included the correspondence and obtaining of books as well as translation, compilation and lifting out of chapters. These chapters were used to make new books out of the existing books. Especially the latter three practices were crucial for the rapid multiplication of text. To conclude, the production of books from existing books through compilation networks was responsible for the quick multiplication of publications and the knowledge incorporated in these books.
    Type: doctoral thesis
    URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/113199