@article{1358753,
      recid = {1358753},
      author = {Stead, Evanghelia,},
      title = {Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects /},
      pages = {1 online resource (XI, 317 pages 31 illustrations) :},
      abstract = {?This volume is both original and useful. Whilst each of  the essays in and of itself offers new research, the volume  taken as a whole is a substantial contribution to book,  image, and media history. It deliberately disrupts the idea  of a unified field, demonstrating how both books and prints  (sometimes combined within the same volume) act as agents  between cultures.?? Kate Flint, Provost Professor of Art  History and English, University of Southern California,  USA?Rather than ask the old questions,?what is a book?  or?what is a print?, Stead and her collaborators want to  know: what has been the use of this text-bearing object?  What does it do? Applying those queries to all manner of  media? made, found, used, and re-purposed? this new  approach dissolves (and complicates) the distinction  between the material and textual aspects of what we read,  and encourages methodologies that cross the boundaries of  discipline.?? Leslie Howsam, Emerita Distinguished  University Professor, University of Windsor, Canada This  book contributes significantly to book, image and media  studies from an interdisciplinary, comparative point of  view. Its broad perspective spans medieval manuscripts to  e-readers. Inventive methodology offers numerous insights  into visual, manuscript and print culture: material objects  relate to meaning and reading processes; images and texts  are examined in varied associations; the symbolic,  representational and cultural agency of books and prints is  brought forward. An introduction substantiates methods and  approaches, ten chapters follow along media lines: from  manuscripts to prints, printed books, and e-readers. Eleven  contributors from six countries challenge the idea of a  unified field, revealing the role of books and prints in  transformation and circulation between varying cultural  trends,?high? and?low?. Mostly Europe-based, the collection  offers book and print professionals, academics and  graduates, models for future research, imaginatively  combining material culture with archival data, cultural and  reading theories with historical patterns.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1358753},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53832-7},
}