Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 From Devotional Aids to Antiquarian Objects: The Prayer Books of Medingen

Chapter 3 How to Read the “Andachtsbüchlein aus der Sammlung Bouhier” (Montpellier, BU Médecine, H 396)? On Cultural Techniques Related to a Fourteenth-Century Devotional Manuscript

Chapter 4 “ Otium et Negotium ”: Reading Processes in Early Italian and German Humanism

Chapter 5 The Fluidity of Images or the Compression of Media Diversity in Books: Galeriewerke and Histoires Métalliques

Chapter 7 The Promotion of the Heroic Woman in Victorian and Edwardian Gift Books

Chapter 8 Pinocchio : An Adventure Illustrated Over More Than a Century (1883–2005)

Chapter 9 Illustration and the Book as Cultural Object: Arthur Schnitzler’s Works in German and English Editions

Chapter 10 Two Peas in a Pod: Book Sales Clubs and Book Ownership in the Twentieth Century

Chapter 11 E-Readers and Polytextual Critique: On Some Emerging Material Conditions in the Early Age of Digital Reading