Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. General Introduction: Print Culture 1
5. PART I. PRINT TO CAPTURE THE IMAGINATION
6. Introduction 13
7. 1. Franciscan Piety and Voracity: Uses and Strategems in the Hagiographic Pamphlet 15
8. 2. The Hanged Woman Miraculously Saved: An occasionnel 59
9. 3. Tales as a Mirror: Perrault in the Bibliothèque bleue 92
10. PART II. RELIGIOUS USES
11. INTRODUCTION 139
12. 4. Books of Hours and the Reading Habits of the Later Middle Ages 141
13. 5. From Ritual to the Hearth: Marriage Charters in Seventeenth-Century Lyons 174
14. 6. Reading unto Death: Books and Readers in Eighteenth-Century Bohemia 191
15. PART III. POLITICAL REPRESENTATION AND PERSUASION
16. INTRODUCTION 233
17. 7. Readability and Persuasion: Political Handbills 235
18. 8. Books of Emblems on the Public Stage: Côté jardin and côté cour 261
19. 9. Printing the Event: From La Rochelle to Paris 290
20. Index 335