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.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Evanghelia Stead.- Part I : Manuscripts as Cultural Objects.- Chapter 2. From Devotional Aids to Antiquarian Objects: The Prayer Books of Medingen - Henrike L?hnemann.- Chapter 3. How to Read the Andachtsb?chlein aus der Sammlung Bouhier (Montpellier, BU M?decine, H 396)? On Cultural Techniques Related to a 14th-century Devotional Manuscript- Henrike Manuwald.- Chapter 4. Otium et negotium . Reading Processes in Early Italian and German Humanism - Michael Stolz.- Part II: Prints in Europe .- Chapter 5. The Fluidity of Images or the Compression of Media Diversity in Books: Galeriewerke and Histoire M?tallique - Christina Posselt-Kuhli.- Chapter 6. Change of Use, Changlc"
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