The culture of print
Subtitle: power and the uses of print in early modern Europe
By: Alain Boureau ... [et al.] ; edited by Roger Chartier ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.
Contributors: Boureau, Alain.; Chartier, Roger, 1945-
Publisher: Polity
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Printing -- History.; Books and reading -- History.; Europe -- Civilization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Translation of: Les usages de l'imprimé.
Table of contents: title: General introduction : print culture / Roger Chartier; title: Franciscan piety and voracity / Alain Boureau; title: The hanged woman miraculously saved / Roger Chartier; title: Tales as a mirror / Catherine Velay-Vallantin; title: Books of hours and the reading habits of the later Middle Ages / Paul Saenger; title: From ritual to the hearth / Roger Chartier; title: Reading unto death / Marie-Elisabeth Ducreux; title: Readability and persuasion / Christian Jouhaud; title: Books of emblems on the public stage / Alain Boureau; title: Printing the event / Christian Jouhaud.