* This is a major new work from one of the world s leading historians of print culture and the book. * Chartier shows that, in the early history of…

Roger Chartier examines how authors transformed the material realities of writing or of publication into an aesthetic resource exploited for poetic, dramatic, or narrative ends.

This collection of essays explores the cultures that coalesced around printed music in previous centuries. It focuses on the unique modes through which print organized the presentation of musical texts…

The modern practice of reading - privately, silently, with the eyes alone - is only one way of reading. In the ancient world, in the Middle Ages and as late…

Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault's Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and daily life What might it mean for ordinary people to intervene in the…