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This volume offers the user a guide to the neglected field of how-to books. How do I make soap? How do I dye textiles? What ingredients do I need for a effective remedy? How can one find and mine mineral resources, how does one make pewter cups or a good meal? Practical information of this kind, on distillation, medicine, dyeing, cosmetics, glassmaking, ceramics, metallurgy and many other subjects, flooded the book market in the first centuries of printing. As varied as these subjects are the research questions that we might ask: How do you learn practical skills from a book? Why were these books so popular, who used them and how, and can they even be considered to be a clearly defined genre? The aim of this volume, which emerged from a conference at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, is to find out which patterns characterise the genre of how-to books or “Rezepte-Büchlein”. It also aims to contribute to the clarification of terms for a genre, that operates under labels such as “Books of Secrets” and "recipe books" or, in German-speaking countries, "Kunst- und Wunderbuch" or “nützlich büchlein”. Some key issues addressed in the book include the traces of book use, the media shift from manuscript to print, the interaction between text and image, and the praxeological dimension of practical books. Self-help literature not only made it possible for interested laypersons to obtain information from all possible fields of knowledge, largely independent of institutional and educational environments; as "tracts for action" they differed from other genres in that they were consistently oriented towards implementation.

Art History. --- Book History and Cartography. --- Material Studies.

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Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, published in three volumes, is a fresh, comprehensive understanding of Proclus' legacy in the Hellenic, Byzantine, Islamic, Latin and Hebrew traditions. The history of the Book of Causes, an Islamic adaptation of mainly Proclus' Elements of Theology and Plotinus' Enneads, is reconsidered on the basis of newly discovered manuscripts. This first volume enriches our understanding of the diverse reception of Proclus' Elements of Theology and of the Book of Causes in the Western tradition where universities and religious schools offered unparalleled conditions of diffusion. The volume sheds light on overlooked authors, texts, literary genres and libraries from all major European universities from the 12th to the 16th centuries.

Neoplatonism. --- Proclus, --- Liber de causis. --- Appreciation --- Translations --- Appreciation. --- Translations. --- Causation --- Book History and Cartography --- History of the Book

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This book sheds light on the archipelagic relations of two African Caribbean newspapers in the early decades of the nineteenth century and analyzes their medium-specific interventions in the struggle for emancipation and on a white-dominated communication market. Early African Caribbean Newspapers as Archipelagic Media in the Emancipation Age shows how two African Caribbean newspapers in the early decades of the nineteenth century worked towards emancipation across both material and immaterial lines through medium-specific interventions. More concretely, this book proposes an archipelagic framework for understanding the emancipatory struggles of the Antiguan Weekly Register in St. John's and the Jamaica Watchman in Kingston. Complicating the prevalent narrative about the Register and the Watchman as organs of the free people of color, this book begins to explore the heterogeneity of Black newspaper print on the liberal spectrum. As such, Archipelagic Media and Early African Caribbean Newspapers makes the case that the Register and the Watchman participated in shaping the contemporary communication market in the Caribbean. To do so, this study engages deeply with the materiality of the newspaper and presents fresh visual material.

African Studies --- American Studies --- Book History and Cartography --- Cultural History --- Global History --- History of the Book --- History --- Literature & Culture --- Literature and Cultural Studies

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This book is about the origin and development of the presentation of gypsies as narrative device in West-European children’s literature. This literary analysis of the representation of ‘Gypsies’ in juvenile literature is unique in its comparative scope, as well as in the special attention to rare pre-1850 narratives, the period in which juvenile literature developed as a specific genre. Most studies on the subject are about one national literary tradition or confined to a limited period. In this study Dutch, English, French and German texts are analysed and discussed with reference to main academic publications on the subject. Emphasis is on the rich variation in narrative presentations, rather than on an inventory of images or prejudices. An important topic is the fundamental difference between early English and German narratives. Important because of the wide dissemination of German stories.

Book History and Cartography. --- Cultural History. --- Cultural Studies. --- History of the Book. --- History. --- Literature and Cultural Studies. --- Literature, Arts & Science. --- Migration History. --- Social Sciences. --- Romanies in literature. --- Children's literature

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On the basis of a newly discovered manuscript this book offers the most comprehensive bibliography of the enormous output of the fifteenth-century scholar Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī – enlarging our view of his scholarly contribution and correcting numerous mistakes in this regard. This book is thus essential reading for all those interested in the writerly world of Damascus and the scholarly world of the late fifteenth century, especially with regard to the Ḥanbalī tradition and ḥadīth scholarship. In particular, linking the titles of his books with the extant manuscripts in libraries around the world opens new perspectives to these scholarly worlds. At the same time this book offers a new framework to studying social history with reference to documents and the material culture of the book.. Readership: All interested in Islamic Studies and especially history of the book and history of libraries. The focus on the Ḥanbalī heritage will appeal in particular to those interested in Ḥanbalism.

Civilization, Arab. --- Bibliographies. --- Arab civilization --- Civilization, Semitic --- Islamic civilization --- Book History and Cartography --- History of the Book --- History --- Medieval History --- Book History --- Middle East and Islamic Studies --- History & Culture --- Manuscripts & Printing --- Ibn al-Mibrad, Yūsuf ibn Ḥasan, --- Bin al-Mubarrid, Yūsuf bin Ḥasan bin ʻAbd al-Hādy Jamāl, --- Ḥanbalī, Jamāl al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ḥasan, --- Ibn ʻAbd al-Hādī, Yūsuf ibn Ḥasan, --- Ibn al-Mabrad, Yūsuf ibn Ḥasan, --- Ibn al-Mubarrid, Yūsuf ibn Ḥasan, --- Maqdisī, Yūsuf ibn Ḥasan, --- Yūsuf ibn Ḥasan ibn al-Mibrad, --- ابن المبرد، يوسف بن حسن --- ابن المبرد, يوسف بن حسن --- ابن المبرد، يوسف بن حسن، --- ابن المبرد، يوسف بن حين --- ابن مبرد، يوسف بن حسن --- يوسف بن عبد الهادي --- يوسف بن عبد الهادي المقدسي الحنبلي --- يوسف بن عبد حسن بن المبرد --- Ibn ʻAbd al-Hādī, Yusūf ibn Ḥasan, --- ابن عبد الهادي، يسوف بن حسن