Geographies of the book
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The history of the book in China from 1000 to 1800. The author compares the Chinese experience with books with that of other civilizations, particularly the European.
"Since Gutenberg's time, every aspect of print has gradually changed. But the advent of computational media has exponentially increased the pace, transforming how books are composed, designed, edited, typeset, distributed, sold, and read. N. Katherine Hayles traces the emergence…
Priests and their books in late Anglo-Saxon England
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The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts--first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets--by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale o…
Part I. Manuscript, print and the Jewish Bible. 1. The letter of Aristeas: three phases in the readership of a Jewish text / Scott Mandelbrote -- 2. Antonio Brucioli and the Jewish Italian versions of the Bible / Alessandro Guetta -- Part 2. Censorship and the regulation of read…
"Jewish Books and their Readers discusses the transformative effect of the circulation and readership of sacred and secular texts written by Jews on Christian as well as Jewish readers in early modern Europe. Its twelve essays challenge traditional paradigms of Christian Hebrais…
Alastair Fowler presents a fascinating study of title pages printed in England from the early modern era to the nineteenth century, exploring their place in the History of the Book for the first time. He illuminates key features of title-page design and presents 16 illustrations…
