Approaches to the History of Written Culture

Chapter 1 A World Inscribed – Introduction

Chapter 2 The Babylonian Scribes and Their Libraries

Chapter 3 Writings in the Korean Han’gŭl Script by and for the Women of Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910)

Chapter 4 Paper World: The Materiality of Loss in the Pre-Modern Age

Chapter 5 Writings on the Streets: Ephemeral Texts and Public Space in the Early Modern Hispanic World

Chapter 6 Writing One’s Life: The French School of the Anthropology of Writing

Chapter 7 Calendar, Chronicle and Songs of Sorrows: Generic Sources of Life Writing in Nineteenth-Century Finland

Chapter 8 Reading the ‘Cheyenne Letter’: Towards a Typology of Inscription beyond the Alphabet

Chapter 10 Policing Writing in the City, 1852–1945: The Invention of Scriptural Delinquency

Chapter 11 QWERTYUIOP: How the Typewriter Influenced Writing Practices

Chapter 12 The Future of the History of Writing