Boxes and Books in Early Modern England: Materiality, Metaphor, Containment

ISBN-13: 9781108932745 / Miękka / 2023 / 266 str.

Lucy Razzall

Opis

Uses the idea of the box in early modern England to develop a new direction in book history and material culture.

Spis treści

1. Chests of the Mind in Early Modern England; 2. The Renaissance of the Box: Metaphors of Interpretation; 3. The Word in a Box: Reforming the Book; 4. How to Read a Reliquary; 5. 'Because This Box We Know': Embodying the Box.