The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe Between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries Paperback - 1994 - 1st Edition
by Roger Chartier
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Between the end of the Middle Ages and the eighteenth century, what methods were used to monitor and control the increasing number of texts--from the early handwritten books to the later, printed volumes--that were being put into circulation?
In The Order of Books
, Chartier examines the different systems required to regulate the world of writing through the centuries, from the registration of titles to the classification of works. The modern world has, he argues, directly inherited the products of this labor: the basic principle of referring to texts, the dream of a universal library, real or imaginary, containing all the works ever written, and the emergence of a new definition of the book leading to some of the innovations that transformed the relationship of the reader to the text.
The Order of Books
will be welcomed by students and researchers of cultural history, and the history of reading in particular.
From the jacket flap
Between the end of the Middle Ages and the eighteenth century, what methods were used to monitor and control the increasing number of texts--from the early handwritten books to the later, printed volumes--that were being put into circulation?
In The Order of Books
, Chartier examines the different systems required to regulate the world of writing through the centuries, from the registration of titles to the classification of works. The modern world has, he argues, directly inherited the products of this labor: the basic principle of referring to texts, the dream of a universal library, real or imaginary, containing all the works ever written, and the emergence of a new definition of the book leading to some of the innovations that transformed the relationship of the reader to the text.
The Order of Books
will be welcomed by students and researchers of cultural history, and the history of reading in particular.
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- Title The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe Between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- Author Roger Chartier
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 148
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford
- Date 1994-02-01
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780804722674 / 0804722676
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 8.54 x 5.54 x 0.47 in (21.69 x 14.07 x 1.19 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 15th Century
- Chronological Period: 16th Century
- Chronological Period: 17th Century
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93084986
- Dewey Decimal Code 028.909
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