This volume is a comparative study of the practice of impagination
across different ages and civilizations. By impagination we mean
the act of placing and arranging spatially textual and other
information onto a material bearer that could be made of a variety
of materials (papyrus, bamboo slips, palm leaf, parchment, paper,
and the computer screen). This volume investigates three levels of
impagination: what is the page or other unit of the material
bearer, what is written or printed on it, and how is writing or
print placed on it. It also examines the interrelations of two or
all three of these levels. Collectively it examines the material
and materiality of the page, the variety of imprints, cultural and
historical conventions for impagination, interlinguistic
encounters, the control of editors, scribes, publishers and readers
over the page, inheritance, borrowing and innovation, economics,
aesthetics and socialities of imprints and impagination, and the
relationship of impagination to philology. This volume supplements
studies on mise en page and layout - an important subject of
codicology - first by including non-codex writings, second by
taking a closer look at the page or other unit than at the codex
(or book), and third by its aspiration to adopt a globally
comparative approach. This volume brings together for comparison
vast geographical realms of learning, including Europe, China,
Tibet, Korea, Japan and the Near Eastern and European communities
in which the Hebrew Bible was transmitted. This comparison is
significant, for Europe, China, and India all developed great
traditions of learning which came into intensive contact. The
contributions to this volume are firmly rooted in local cultures
and together address global, comparative themes that are
significant for multiple disciplines, such as intellectual and
cultural history of knowledge (both humanistic and scientific),
global history, literary and media studies, aesthetics, and studies
of material culture, among other fields.
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