Contents

Introduction

Editors and Contributors

List of Abbreviations

Thematic Studies

1 Writing Systems ANDREW ROBINSON

2 The Sacred Book CARL OLSON

3 The Ancient Book CRAIG KALLENDORF

4 The History of the Book in Byzantium N. G. WILSON

5 The European Medieval Book CHRISTOPHER DE HAMEL

6 The European Printing Revolution CRISTINA DONDI

7 The Book as Symbol BRIAN CUMMINGS

8 The Transmission of Jewish Knowledge through MSS and Printed Books EMILE G. L. SCHRIJVER

9 Missionary Printing M. ANTONI J. ÜÇERLER, S.J.

10 Paper DAVEN CHRISTOPHER CHAMBERLAIN

11 The Technologies of Print JAMES MOSLEY

12 The Economics of Print ALEXIS WEEDON

13 Censorship ELISABETH LADENSON

14 Concepts of Intellectual Property and Copyright ADAM D. MOORE

15 The Manuscript after the Coming of Print HAROLD LOVE

16 Printed Ephemera MICHAEL HARRIS

17 Children’s Books ANDREA IMMEL

18 The History of Illustration and its Technologies PAUL GOLDMAN

19 Bookbinding DAVID PEARSON

20 Theories of Text, Editorial Theory, and Textual Criticism MARCUS WALSH

21 The Electronic Book EILEEN GARDINER AND RONALD G. MUSTO

Regional and National Histories of the Book

22a Britain, c.1475–1800 ANDREW MURPHY

22b Britain, 1801–1914 LESLIE HOWSAM

22c Britain from 1914 CLAIRE SQUIRES

23 Ireland NIALL Ó CIOSÁIN AND CLARE HUTTON

24 France VINCENT GIROUD

25 The Low Countries PAUL HOFTIJZER

26 Germany JOHN L. FLOOD

27 Switzerland LUKAS ERNE

28 The Nordic Countries CHARLOTTE APPEL AND KAREN SKOVGAARD-PETERSEN

29 The Iberian Peninsula MARÍA LUISA LÓPEZ-VIDRIERO

30 Italy NEIL HARRIS

31 Modern Greece, c.1453–2000 ALEXIS POLITIS

32 Austria JOHN L. FLOOD

33 Hungary BRIDGET GUZNER

34 The Czech Republic and Slovakia DEVANA PAVLIK

35 Poland JANET ZMROCZEK

36 The Baltic States JÜRGEN M. WARMBRUNN

37 The Slavonic Book in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus CHRISTINE THOMAS

38 The Balkans EKATERINA ROGATCHEVSKAIA AND ALEKSANDRA B. VRANEŠ

39 Sub-Saharan Africa ANDREW VAN DER VLIES

40 The Muslim World GEOFFREY ROPER

41 The Indian Subcontinent ABHIJIT GUPTA

42 China J. S. EDGREN

43 Korea BETH MCKILLOP

44 Japan P. F. KORNICKI

45a Southeast Asia (1): The Islands EDWIN PAUL WIERINGA

45b Southeast Asia (2): The Mainland JANA IGUNMA

46 Australia IAN MORRISON

47 New Zealand SHEF ROGERS

48 Latin America (including Incas and Aztecs) EUGENIA ROLDÁN VERA

49 Canada PATRICIA LOCKHART FLEMING

50 America SCOTT E. CASPER AND JOAN SHELLEY RUBIN

51 The Caribbean and Bermuda JEREMY B. DIBBELL

Index