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New Medieval Literatures, 2007
This chapter examines the history and developments in study of medieval manuscript books in Britain during the twentieth century. The twentieth century saw the study of the manuscript book rightly move from the margins to centre stage in British medieval studies.
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This chapter examines the history and developments in study of medieval manuscript books in Britain during the twentieth century. The twentieth century saw the study of the manuscript book rightly move from the margins to centre stage in British medieval studies.
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2017
The history of the book is a new academic field that explores how books shape society and how society shapes books. It covers not only books per se but all kinds of documents, including manuscripts, periodicals, newspapers, and ephemera. It addresses the social, economic, and cultural history of authorship, editing, scribal and print production ...
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The history of the book is a new academic field that explores how books shape society and how society shapes books. It covers not only books per se but all kinds of documents, including manuscripts, periodicals, newspapers, and ephemera. It addresses the social, economic, and cultural history of authorship, editing, scribal and print production ...
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What Is the History of the History of Books?
Journal of American History, 2003Perhaps an emergent subdiscipline attains maturity at the moment when its adherents assume-usually erroneously-that their colleagues outside the new field understand what it is all about. By that measure, the history of the book has arrived. Early efforts to explain the enterprise, such as Robert Darnton's classic 1982 article, "What Is the History of ...
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Intellectual history and the history of the book
Intellectual News, 1996Abstract The present phase in the development of the study of the history of the book is characterized by the attempt to integrate traditional, mainly antiquarian and inward-looking book-history with general media and cultural history. This phase was opened by the appearance in 1958 of Lucien Febvre's long-awaited L'Apparition du Livre, which was in ...
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2023
Abstract This chapter takes stock of the history of the book as a subfield of early modern literary studies amid the ongoing debates about scale and method that have shaped the discipline in recent years. It explores book history’s bifurcated genealogy, reaching back on one hand to the hyper-particularism of twentieth-century ...
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Abstract This chapter takes stock of the history of the book as a subfield of early modern literary studies amid the ongoing debates about scale and method that have shaped the discipline in recent years. It explores book history’s bifurcated genealogy, reaching back on one hand to the hyper-particularism of twentieth-century ...
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2020
This book leads readers through an intriguing examination of how books began and have evolved through history and explores where future technologies may lead them. From ancient clay tablet and scrolls to medieval manuscripts and printed books to personal computers and iPads, this guide examines the fascinating history of books from 4000 BCE to the
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This book leads readers through an intriguing examination of how books began and have evolved through history and explores where future technologies may lead them. From ancient clay tablet and scrolls to medieval manuscripts and printed books to personal computers and iPads, this guide examines the fascinating history of books from 4000 BCE to the
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The Oxford History of the Book
2023Abstract In fourteen original essays, the Oxford History of the Book reveals the history of books in all the various forms, from the ancient world to the digital present, leading international scholars offer an original narrative that is global in scope.
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