In recent years, literary scholars have come increasingly to acknowledge that an adequate understanding of texts requires the study of books, the material objec

This volume contributes to the fast-developing field of mise en livre studies by examining a range of book-text relationships in late medieval and early modern

How was the Book of Hours created and used as a book and what did it mean to its owners?

Obscene poetry, servants' slanders against their masters, the diabolical acts of those who committed massacre and regicide. This is a book about the harmful, ou

A new kind of songbook emerged in the later fifteenth century: personalized, portable, and lavishly decorated. Five closely related chansonniers, copied in the