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Print Conventions and Authority in Three English Recipe Manuscripts
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 231-253, April 2026.Abstract This article considers the uses of stylistic and visual conventions drawn from print books in three seventeenth‐ and eighteenth‐century recipe manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania. We begin by analysing the title page, dedicatory epistle, catchwords, and headers of MS Codex 627, which imitates an edition of Hugh Plat's Delights for ...
Aylin Malcolm, Margaret C. Maurer
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Reader Interaction with Graphic Devices in Early Modern English Printed Books☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 254-273, April 2026.Abstract Research into marginalia or reader annotations has become a well‐established branch of early modern book studies, shedding light on one of the ways in which manuscript and print coexisted and interacted in this period. The present study sets out to discover how readers engaged with printed graphic devices and with texts that contain such ...
Aino Liira
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 293-308, April 2026.Abstract This article will demonstrate the intersectional nature of manuscript and print, as well as the importance of the printing press to Recusant readers. The article will consider TCD 352 as a manuscript or notebook for whom the material and immaterial nature of the book changes as both the Counter‐Reformation movement intensifies and the ...
Niamh Pattwell
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 6-24, February 2026.Abstract The so‐called Liber Iesus, a Latin prayer book commissioned for the young Massimiliano Sforza by his father Ludovico il Moro in the 1490s, features a splendid miniature depicting a meeting between the child count and Emperor Maximilian I. It is accompanied by a brief dialogue in German with an interlinear version in Italian on the topic of the
Michael Berger
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‘End of the Goddamned thing!!’
Sillages Critiques, 2018 The mystery fiction writer Erle Stanley Gardner and his publisher Thayer Hobson of Morrow devised an unusual procedure for connecting the first ten Perry Mason novels with ‘leads’ to provoke the reader’s curiosity, and so promote the sale of the ...
Richard Williams
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 10, Page 1411-1427, October 2025.Abstract Classification schemes are a key way of organizing bibliographic knowledge, yet the way that classification schemes communicate their information to classifiers receives little attention. This article takes a novel approach by exploring the visual aspects contained within classification schemes.
Deborah Lee
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ComicalitésAt the end of the 20th century, Japanese comics or manga became a worldwide phenomenon. In the United States and Europe publishers found in this cultural import a way of revitalizing aging comics markets and broaden the readership (Brienza 2016; Malone ...
Diego Labra
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Why Engineers Should Read More Novels
Chemie Ingenieur Technik, Volume 97, Issue 8-9, Page 852-859, September 2025.What do engineers do? And what should they work on? A surprising answer is outlined in this essay, which argues that reading novels holds the key for addressing both questions. Novels train the imagination as well as our ethical abilities – skills that are essential for developing future‐proof technologies.
Michael Kuhn
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Paratext and meaning-making in indie games
, 1970 The essay discusses the role of paratext in framing players’ experience of videogames, focusing on the indie game scene and specifically examining three types of paratext: game title, game description, and the readme file.
Fiadotau, Mikhail
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