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For more than 20 years now, the publishing industry has been highly
influenced by innovations in digital technology. This is not the
first time that technological changes affect the book trade. Both
the printing press and industrialized production methods vitally
changed the book industry in their time. With a macroscopic,
comparative approach, this book looks at the transitional phases of
the book of the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries to locate
distinctive patterns in the acceptance of new technologies. Using
specific book value categories, which shape the acceptance context
of innovations in book production, helps us find continuities and
discontinuities of these patterns. It also offers a better
understanding of current developments in publishing in the digital
age.
This Festschrift honours the dedicated book historian and
medievalist Gabriele Muller-Oberhauser. Her wide-ranging scholarly
expertise has encouraged and influenced many adepts of the book.
The essays in this volume reflect the variety of her interests: The
contributions range from Chaucer's Furstenspiegel to the value of
books in comedy, from the material book to the magical book in
religious and literary cultures, from collaborative efforts in
manuscript production to the relations of distributors of books
across national and ideological boundaries, from the relations
between the makers of books to the relation of readers to their
books. Covering a period from the Middle Ages to the present, the
volume concludes with a look at the future of book history as a
field of study.
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