Printing the Written Word: The Social History of Books, Circa 1450-1520

Collection of essays on the development of the printed book in Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, and England. From Schoeffer to Vérard: concerning the scribes who became printers / Sheila Edmunds Publish and perish: the career of Lienhart Holle in Ulm / Martha Tedeschi The career of Guy Marchant (1483-1504): high culture and low culture in Paris / Sandra Hindman Text, image, and authorial self-consciousness in late medieval Paris / Cynthia J. Brown New perspectives on the history of Mainz printing: a fresh look at illuminated imprints / Eberhard König The impact of printing on miniaturists in Venice after 1469 / Lilian Armstrong Importation of books printed on the continent into England and Scotland before c.1520 / Lotte Hellinga Incunable description and its implication for the analysis of fifteenth-century reading habits / Paul Saenger and Michael Heinlen Reading the printed image: illuminations and woodcuts of the Pèlerinage de la vie humaine in the fifteenth century / Michael Camille Mementos of things of to come: orality, literacy, and typology in the Biblia pauperum / Tobin Nellhaus.