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'This volume is both original and useful. Whilst each of the essays in and of itself offers new research, the volume taken as a whole is a substantial contribution to book, image, and media history. It deliberately disrupts the idea of a unified field, demonstrating how both books and prints (sometimes combined within the same volume) act as agents between cultures.' - Kate Flint, Provost Professor of Art History and English, University of Southern California, USA 'Rather than ask the old questions, 'what is a book' or 'what is a print', Stead and her collaborators want to know: what has been the use of this text-bearing object? What does it do? Applying those queries to all manner of media - made, found, used, and re-purposed - this new approach dissolves (and complicates) the distinction between the material and textual aspects of what we read, and encourages methodologies that cross the boundaries of discipline.' - LeslieHowsam, Emerita Distinguished University Professor, University of Windsor, Canada This book contributes significantly to book, image and media studies from an interdisciplinary, comparative point of view. Its broad perspective spans medieval manuscripts to e-readers. Inventive methodology offers numerous insights into visual, manuscript and print culture: material objects relate to meaning and reading processes; images and texts are examined in varied associations; the symbolic, representational and cultural agency of books and prints is brought forward. An introduction substantiates methods and approaches, ten chapters follow along media lines: from manuscripts to prints, printed books, and e-readers. Eleven contributors from six countries challenge the idea of a unified field, revealing the role of books and prints in transformation and circulation between varying cultural trends, 'high' and 'low'. Mostly Europe-based, the collection offers book and print professionals, academics and graduates, models for future research, imaginatively combining material culture with archival data, cultural and reading theories with historical patterns.

Book history --- History of Europe --- reading culture --- Books --- Civilization --- History of the Book. --- Cultural History. --- History.

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Grundlegende Kenntnisse der Buchgeschichte sind auch im heutigen Berufsalltag immer wieder von Nutzen. So setzt beispielsweise die Vorbereitung von Ausstellungen oder die Präsentation historischer Bestände einschlägiges Wissen voraus. Dieses Buch wendet sich an alle, die sich das dafür notwendige buchhistorische Hintergrundwissen aneignen wollen. Diese Einführung vermittelt einen allgemeinen Überblick zur Geschichte des Buches von seinen Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Die Entwicklung von Zeitungen, Zeitschriften, Karten und Atlanten, Noten und Musikdrucken wie auch orientalischen und ostasiatischen Büchern ist ebenfalls Teil des Inhalts. This introduction to the history of the book focuses on 19th and 20th century Europe. It primarily covers materials most often dealt with by library staff. The discussion is couched in general history, especially cultural history. It covers in detail issues related to older books, such as the preservation of collections.

Books --- History. --- History of the book. --- library history. --- History --- E-books

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‘This volume is both original and useful. Whilst each of the essays in and of itself offers new research, the volume taken as a whole is a substantial contribution to book, image, and media history. It deliberately disrupts the idea of a unified field, demonstrating how both books and prints (sometimes combined within the same volume) act as agents between cultures.‘ — Kate Flint, Provost Professor of Art History and English, University of Southern California, USA ‘Rather than ask the old questions, ‘what is a book’ or ‘what is a print’, Stead and her collaborators want to know: what has been the use of this text-bearing object? What does it do? Applying those queries to all manner of media – made, found, used, and re-purposed – this new approach dissolves (and complicates) the distinction between the material and textual aspects of what we read, and encourages methodologies that cross the boundaries of discipline.’ — Leslie Howsam, Emerita Distinguished University Professor, University of Windsor, Canada This book contributes significantly to book, image and media studies from an interdisciplinary, comparative point of view. Its broad perspective spans medieval manuscripts to e-readers. Inventive methodology offers numerous insights into visual, manuscript and print culture: material objects relate to meaning and reading processes; images and texts are examined in varied associations; the symbolic, representational and cultural agency of books and prints is brought forward. An introduction substantiates methods and approaches, ten chapters follow along media lines: from manuscripts to prints, printed books, and e-readers. Eleven contributors from six countries challenge the idea of a unified field, revealing the role of books and prints in transformation and circulation between varying cultural trends, ‘high’ and ‘low’. Mostly Europe-based, the collection offers book and print professionals, academics and graduates, models for future research, imaginatively combining material culture with archival data, cultural and reading theories with historical patterns.

Illustrated books --- History --- Books --- Books-History. --- Civilization-History. --- History of the Book. --- Cultural History. --- Books—History. --- Civilization—History.

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This volume gathers contributions on key concepts elaborated in the Platonic tradition (Proclus, Plotinus, Porphyry or Sallustius) and reconsidered by Arabic (e.g. Avicenna, the Book of Causes), Byzantine (e.g. Maximus the Confessor, Ioane Petritsi) and Latin authors (e.g. Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas etc.).; Readership: Scholars, students and large audience interested in Greek Neoplatonism and the Long Middle Ages broadly considered (comprising Arabic, Byzantine, Latin, Georgian), with particular focus on causality and the noetic triad being-life-intellect.

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

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History, Ancient. --- History of Religion --- Papyrology --- Hermetism --- Classical Studies --- History of Literature --- Egyptology --- History of the Book --- Late Antiquity