On Indexing
The Birth and Early Development of an Idea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7864633 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Giancarlo Abbamonte, Craig Kallendorf |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 465-486 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jhi.2023.a901490 |
| PMID | 38588289 |
| OpenAlex | W4383620942 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Incorporating techniques from book history into traditional intellectual history, this article traces the effective origin of indexing to the early printed editions of two lexicographical works, Lorenzo Valla's Elegantie and Niccolò Perotti's Cornu copiae, and then follows its development through the editions of the Roman poet Virgil published between 1500 and 1800. Indexing practices turn out to be tied to how books were read, with a new way of consuming books, which is labeled "transverse reading," emerging during this period
Aesthetics · Art · History of the book · Index (typography) · Information retrieval · Lexicographical order · Linguistics · Literature · Period (music) · Reading (process) · Search engine indexing · World Wide Web · Classics · Computer Science · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |