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  • The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind

    Transformations of the Written Word in Early Modern Europe

    by Roger Chartier ...
    In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author’s or translator’s manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copy editor who prepared the text for the press, divided it and added punctuation, the typesetters who composed the pages of the book, and the proof ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Won in Translation

    Textual Mobility in Early Modern Europe

    by Roger Chartier ...
    Translated by John H. Pollack ...
    Series series Material Texts
    In Won in Translation Roger Chartier, one of the world's leading historians of books, publishing, and reading, considers the mobility of the early modern text and the plurality of circulating versions of the same work. The agent for both is translation, for through their lexical, aesthetic, and cultural decisions, translators always assign new meaning or new status to what they translate.Won in ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Cardenio between Cervantes and Shakespeare

    The Story of a Lost Play

    by Roger Chartier ...
    How should we read a text that does not exist, or present a play the manuscript of which is lost and the identity of whose author cannot be established for certain?Such is the enigma posed by Cardenio – a play performed in England for the first time in 1612 or 1613 and attributed forty years later to Shakespeare (and Fletcher). Its plot is that of a ‘novella’ inserted into Don Quixote, a work that ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Won in Translation

    Textual Mobility in Early Modern Europe

    by Roger Chartier ...
    Translated by John H. Pollack ...
    Series series Material Texts
    In Won in Translation Roger Chartier, one of the world's leading historians of books, publishing, and reading, considers the mobility of the early modern text and the plurality of circulating versions of the same work. The agent for both is translation, for through their lexical, aesthetic, and cultural decisions, translators always assign new meaning or new status to what they translate.Won in ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Sociologist and the Historian

    by Pierre Bourdieu, Roger Chartier ...
    In 1988, the renowned sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the leading historian Roger Chartier met for a series of lively discussions that were broadcast on French public radio. Published here for the first time, these conversations are an accessible and engaging introduction to the work of these two great thinkers, who discuss their work and explore the similarities and differences between their ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • Archives of Infamy

    Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens

    Translated by Thomas Scott-Railton ...
    by Roger Chartier, Stuart Elden, Arlette Farge, Michel Foucault, Jean-Philippe Guinle, Michel Heurteaux, Lynne Huffer, Pierre Nora, Michael Rey, Elizabeth Wingrove ...
    Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault’s Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and daily lifeWhat might it mean for ordinary people to intervene in the circulation of power between police and the streets, sovereigns and their subjects? How did the police come to understand themselves as responsible for the circulation of people as much as things—and to ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Why France?

    American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination

    by Roger Chartier ...
    France has long attracted the attention of many of America's most accomplished historians. The field of French history has been vastly influential in American thought, both within the academy and beyond, regardless of France's standing among U.S. political and cultural elites. Even though other countries, from Britain to China, may have had a greater impact on American history, none has exerted ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Tabula Picta

    Painting and Writing in Medieval Law

    by Marta Madero, Roger Chartier ...
    Translated by Monique Dascha Inciarte, Roland David Valayre ...
    Series series Material Texts
    To whom does a painted tablet—a tabula picta—belong? To the owner of the physical piece of wood on which an image is painted? Or to the person who made the painting on that piece of wood? By extension, one might ask, who is the owner of a text? Is it the person who has written the words, or the individual who possesses the piece of parchment or slab of stone on which those words are inscribed?In ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution

    by Roger Chartier ...
    Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane ...
    Series series Bicentennial reflections on the French Revolution
    Reknowned historian Roger Chartier, one of the most brilliant and productive of the younger generation of French writers and scholars now at work refashioning the Annales tradition, attempts in this book to analyze the causes of the French revolution not simply by investigating its “cultural origins” but by pinpointing the conditions that “made is possible because conceivable.”Chartier has set ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Tabula Picta

    Painting and Writing in Medieval Law

    by Marta Madero, Roger Chartier ...
    Translated by Monique Dascha Inciarte, Roland David Valayre ...
    Series series Material Texts
    To whom does a painted tablet—a tabula picta—belong? To the owner of the physical piece of wood on which an image is painted? Or to the person who made the painting on that piece of wood? By extension, one might ask, who is the owner of a text? Is it the person who has written the words, or the individual who possesses the piece of parchment or slab of stone on which those words are inscribed?In ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    The Story of Books in Modern Spain

    by Robert Richmond Ellis ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    The word "bibliophilia" indicates a love of books, both as texts to be read and objects to be cherished for their physical qualities. Throughout the history of Iberian print culture, bibliophiles have attempted to explain the psychological experiences of reading and collecting books, as well as the social and economic conditions of book production.Bibliophiles, Murderous Bookmen, and Mad ... Read more

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  • The Letters of Saint Teresa of Avila

    by St. Teresa of Avila, Wyatt North ...
    This book comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each section.Saint Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada was a prominent Spanish mystic, Roman Catholic saint, Carmelite nun, and writer of the Counter Reformation, and theologian of contemplative life through mental prayer. She was a reformer of the Carmelite ... Read more

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