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Johan Östling and David Larsson Heidenblad introduce the history of knowledge as a way to study what people knew, how knowledge moved, and what it did in society. They distinguish this approach from a simple relabelling of intellectual history or the history of science, arguing for attention to many forms of knowledge and to the people and settings through which it became meaningful.
An overview of the field leads into concepts such as knowledge actors, circulation, and the relationship between knowledge and social life. Historical examples drawn from different places and periods show how questions about production and movement can reshape familiar narratives. The closing discussion considers future directions for research, followed by suggested reading and a bibliography. Lena Olsson translated this English edition.
Johan Östling; David Larsson Heidenblad. The History of Knowledge. Cambridge University Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009047715. CC BY-NC 4.0. Original edition unchanged.