Abstract
Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects, edited by Evanghelia Stead, is a sample selection of papers from the Freiburg FRIAS conference. A major contribution to image, media and book studies research, it offers a stimulating interdisciplinary perspective on the function of books and prints, spanning a broad period from medieval manuscript to digital work. The comparative method adopted in this book leads to an insightful cross-exchange of views that connects books, first regarded as obje...
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Les contenus de la revue Interfaces sont mis à disposition selon les termes de la Licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Despite its being grounded in Europe, the approach chosen here perfectly reflects the differences and the overlapping of cultures.This work spans threshold periods in the history of the production and reception of prints and books: the late Middle Ages, early humanism, precursors of art publications, illustrated books in the industrial age, book consumerism in the twentieth century, e-reading
Testifying to the transformation of reading processes, Michael Stolz’s article on early Italian and German humanism insists on the division between otium and negotium
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Les contenus de la revue Interfaces sont mis à disposition selon les termes de la Licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects”, Interfaces [Online], 42 | 2019, Online since 12 December 2019, connection on 07 January 2021.
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