Book Use, Book Theory: 1500-1700

by Bradin Cormack and Carla Mazzio

What might it mean to use books rather than read them?

This work examines the relationship between book use and forms of thought and theory in the early modern period. Drawing on legal, medical, religious, scientific and literary texts, and on how-to books on topics ranging from cooking, praying, and memorizing to socializing, surveying, and traveling, Bradin Cormack and Carla Mazzio explore how early books defined the conditions of their own...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0943056349
• ISBN13: 9780943056340
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: University of Chicago Library
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.0" x 11.0"