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This article introduces a collection of essays that explore the contributions of early modern women from England, France, and Italy in the fields of science, book history, and art history. The essays highlight the importance of reading the works of well-known women writers and considering canonical works by male artists from gendered perspectives. The topics covered include the advocacy for transspecies friendship in the works of Madeleine de Scudéry, the concept of joining in Margaret Cavendish's writings, the interpretation of Tintoretto's painting Tarquin and Lucretia, and the exploration of queer and trans approaches to the study of early modern women and gender. The article also includes an essay on the experiences of a free Black woman in Spain and reviews of museum exhibits and books on early modern women's studies. The editors express their gratitude to the contributors, reviewers, and readers of the journal as their term comes to an end. [Extracted from the article]

Marcy J. Dinius's book, "The Textual Effects of David Walker's 'Appeal': Print-Based Activism against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829–1851," explores the impact of David Walker's pamphlet, "An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World," which called for Black liberation. Dinius examines five adaptations of the pamphlet over a twenty-year period, analyzing the materiality of the text and its influence on Black and Indigenous rhetorical and print cultures. The book highlights the interconnectedness of these texts and their role in advocating against slavery and racial discrimination. Dinius's work contributes to the field of Black bibliography and emphasizes the importance of preserving and studying these texts in the face of censorship and the erasure of marginalized voices. [Extracted from the article]

The book "Women's Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England" edited by Valerie Wayne explores the question of whether women have a book history in early modern England. The book utilizes a range of new original sources and analysis to provide a resounding answer that women did indeed have a significant role in the book trade and cultural life during this period. The book is praised for its successes but also acknowledges its limitations, particularly in terms of its focus on English borders and its definition of "woman." Despite these constraints, the book is considered an essential piece of women's history and book history for future scholars and students. [Extracted from the article]

Giancarlo Petrella's book, "Scrivere sui libri: Breve guida al libro a stampa postillato," serves as a guide to annotated early printed books, known as postillati. The book is divided into three chapters that explore the history of annotated books, ownership traces and provenance, and reading evidence. Petrella provides numerous examples and a solid methodological approach to understanding the material history of books and reading. While the book may have some flaws, it is an important and indispensable work in the field of marginalia studies, particularly in Italy. [Extracted from the article]

This article considers the fugitive slave narrative as an important episode in the history of the book. It notes the multiple editions to which many of these books ran, and the difficulty of determining a comprehensive bibliographic record of publication. We establish this bibliographic record for Moses Roper's autobiography, Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery , whose sixteen editions were published between 1837 and 1849 in English and Welsh, in what the article identifies as six phases of publication. The article argues for the documentary importance of the paratextual material and visual imagery folded into each edition as extensions of the autobiographical record and, therefore, moments of historical redefinition that respond to the material, economic, social, and cultural conditions of production. This includes the capacity of Black writing to establish spheres of Atlantic print culture other than Anglophone. The article shows that the bibliographic surfeit of nineteenth-century Black writing exemplified by Roper's work provides an untapped biographical resource in which important clues to the biographies of their authors, and of their families in slavery and in freedom, lie hidden in plain sight. Bibliographic attention to Roper's work therefore reveals the novel ways in which the book was systematized as a form of archival practice at a time when it was necessary to travel light, and the public sphere provided one of the few hopes of establishing a durable record of the author's personal and family history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Albums assembled from fragmentary materials present a special set of problems for bibliographic research. Inaccurately described in catalogs and often caught between different fields, these hybrid objects can be tricky to find within collections and even more difficult to place historically in terms of genre. Yet understanding these seemingly idiosyncratic albums has become more important to book history than ever, as the field pushes to tell deeper histories of the material text. This essay begins from the premise that the modern library catalog is, as an ordering technology, incapable of accurately describing these unique books. In order to dispel the fog of naïve wonderment that often persists around them, I proceed to develop a taxonomy of what fragments are (whether remnants , snippets , or pieces , with the related notion of scraps) and a spectrum of their use within collections (as specimens of something or as raw stuff to create something new). Finally, I draw on the terms laid out in this essay to survey some major genres of assembled albums, including Romantic albums, scrapbooks, paper doll houses, chromolithographic albums, Victorian photocollage, design portfolios, sample books, leaf books, and extra-illustrated volumes. By beginning to trace connections across time, this essay shows how a more sensitive reading of fragments might transform book history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The remarkable theatrical history of Joseph Addison's 1713 tragedy Cato is well known, but the play is also an exceptional case in book history. This essay looks in detail at its two entirely distinct "first" editions. It resolves the relationship between these two editions and considers the quite different problems they raise for the bibliographer: the one of how we distinguish between edition and issue in a context of frenzied publication, standing type, and incremental resetting; the other, of how a manifestly substandard and suspicious edition came to carry the self-proclaimed hallmark of the play's true publisher, Jacob Tonson. The early print history of Addison's Cato , this essay shows, both puts pressure on the language of bibliography and also marks an important and revealing episode in a number of larger histories: those of the Tonson house, of book piracy and copyright protection, and of the bestseller. Appendices provide bibliographical descriptions of the 1713 Qα and Qβ editions, press variants of the earliest three issues of Qα, and uncorrected errors in Qβ. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

However, Gustafsson offers some context and argues that Liedman represented a wing of humanities scholars who not only strongly opposed earlier traditions of humanities scholarship but also considered their work as "a kind of guerilla warfare" against technocracy (144). Such research, Bertilsson points out, may not be labeled as humanities according to an institutional definition, which limits the humanities to what is done in university humanities faculties. The marginalization of the humanities, as Gustafsson notes, was not unique to Sweden, and other countries also discussed the crisis of the humanities. These scholars focused on the potential societal relevance of humanities research, found inspiration in the social and natural sciences, and distanced themselves from their more traditional colleagues or even denied doing humanities research at all. [Extracted from the article]

This article gives an account of the development of the history of the book as a distinctive discipline and its relation to bibliography and social history, two disciplines that are complementary but that have too often been practiced selectively in the past, giving rise to the tension between Anglo-American analytical bibliography and French social history. The second part of the article includes some of the major trends in the scholarship of the last twenty years and some major unresolved issues that still must be addressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through I Intermediate Horizons: Book History and Digital Humanities i , editors Mark Vareschi and Heather Wacha curate a collection of chapters by scholars representing a variety of bookish interests. Some chapters (e.g., Pottroff, Yahr, Leaner, Alvis) complement gentle introductions to questions about digitality and digitization for settled book historians. For Alvis, book history and bibliography may serve as conceptual lenses for digital phenomena; Alvis likens institutional and individual contributions to the #LibraryTwitter hashtag to the various textual and visual elements in medieval books of hours. [Extracted from the article]

Both Kojève and Strauss, as we have seen, were theorists of reading; yet while Kojève's reading of Hegel is invoked throughout I The End of History and the Last Man i , Strauss is mentioned nowhere in the body of the text. Keywords: Fukuyama; Strauss; Kojève; Marx; Nietzsche; education EN Fukuyama Strauss Kojève Marx Nietzsche education 810 823 14 10/04/22 20221001 NES 221001 I Just as the soil needs cultivators of the soil, the mind needs teachers. To know the role Strauss played in the development of Fukuyama's argument, uninitiated pupils would have to turn to the footnotes, where they would learn that Strauss was someone of Kojève's acquaintance. Compare to Strauss's comments in "Political Philosophy of Marx", 172-3. 46 Friedrich Nietzsche, I Twilight of the Idols i , trans. Duncan Large (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 41. 47 Marx, "Theses on Feuerbach", 5. 48 Leo Strauss, "Nietzsche (1967)", ed. [Extracted from the article]

In the 1914 "Chinese-Japanese Cook Book" biracial authors Sara Bosse and her sister Winnifred Eaton, a successful novelist known by the Japanesque pseudonym Onoto Watanna, adapted Chinese and Japanese dishes to appeal to white middle-class American women entertaining at home. Reading the domestication of these East Asian cuisines through this pioneering work that has been largely ignored by food historians shows how shopping, preparing the dishes, decorating the home, and dressing up in costumes for parties where these cuisines were served opened up empowering, alternative imaginative spaces for both authors and readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article introduces the little-known humanist Pompeo Pazzaglia of Bologna (Pompeius Bononiensis). Drawing on the evidence of two collections of his works preserved in miscellaneous manuscripts, it not only reconstructs his biography, but also showcases a selection of his Neo-Latin poems, published and translated here for the first time. Moreover, it publishes some letters and writings which provide new information about book history as well as social, cultural and political events in mid-fifteenth-century Italy, especially in the ambit of Pomponio Leto's Roman Academy, the papal curia and the court of Naples. Pompeo's previously unstudied writings yield unique insights into such diverse subjects as the decoration and symbolism of the Roman Pantheon and the Palazzo di San Marco, the marriage of Ippolita Maria Sforza and King Ferrante in Naples, the death of Jacopo Piccinino (1465) and the fall of Negroponte to the Ottomans (1471). This study therefore makes a valuable contribution to scholarship on early Renaissance humanism in Rome and Aragonese Naples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article treats the reception history of Herodotus—reputed to be both "the father of history" and "the father of lies"—between about 1670 and 1850. It focuses attention on book 2 of The Histories , in which Herodotus offers an extensive, and ostensibly firsthand, account of the monuments, geography, customs, flora, and fauna of Egypt. Most arrestingly for modern European readers, book 2 also contains descriptions of Egyptian religious practices and a chronology of Egyptian kings. Crucially, however, much of what Herodotus reports on these two subjects he learned not directly, but by listening to accounts of men whom he labeled "Egyptian priests." In the eighteenth century in particular, I argue, these "priests" and their indirect testimony began to pose a serious historiographical problem: had Herodotus, naively, trusted them too much? If so, was his credibility with respect to the other contents of the "oriental" prelude to The Histories (books 1–4) impugned? The essay shows that, while some skeptics, and especially philhellenes, favored relegating books 1–4 entirely to the status of myth, "orientalists," and especially those eager to save the credibility of the Old Testament, defended Herodotus. Their faith in him, I conclude, kept alive belief in the possibility of reconstructing Near Eastern antiquity before the great age of decipherments and archaeological finds began. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a history of the book "Typographical Antiquities," by Joseph Ames. The author discusses the history of British antiquarians, including Thomas Hearne, James Bagford, and Humphrey Wanley, and explores how Ames went about compiling the history of book publishing and printing in the 18th century.

In his 1896 study The Great Meaning of Metanoia , the theologian Treadwell Walden (1830–1918) took up a traditional proposition—that the common translation of the New Testament term μετάνοια (metanoia) as "repentance" misrepresented the word's lexical and theological compass—to argue for a different translation in the English-language versions of the New Testament. Walden's was the first comprehensive study devoted to the single proposition that, based on the etymology of the term, μετάνοια should more properly be translated as a "change of mind," thus fundamentally challenging established Biblical language and soteriological dogma. Despite its enthusiastic initial reception, however, Walden's study is virtually forgotten today. This article will trace the history of the book's reception from the time of its publication to the present, demonstrating that a variety of factors ranging from a reductionist engagement with his ideas to the dominance of established Biblical language combined to consign Walden's study to the realm of scholarly oblivion. It will also look at ways in which this process is exemplary of types of scholarly forgetting more generally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines what light new developments in the history of books and reading can shed on the sixteenth-century antiquarian William Lambarde and his assessments of the credibility and historicity of the ancient past. It explores what the retracing of a book's life cycle--i.e., its travels from composition and revision to reception, via both manuscript and print--can teach us about Lambarde's magnum opus, his Perambulation of Kent (first published in 1576, then as a revised edition in 1596). Specifically, it surveys how both Lambarde and his contemporaries approached one of the most hotly contested questions in early modern scholarship: debates over the ostensible Trojan origins of the British. The article begins by examining links between the history of reading and the history of antiquarianism--two fields which have enjoyed a considerable efflorescence in recent decades. It does so via re-examination of Arnaldo Momigliano's classic essay 'Ancient History and the Antiquarian', published nearly seventy years ago in this Journal. It then examines how not only Lambarde himself, but also various other contemporary or near-contemporary scholars and readers (John Bale, John Dee, William Camden, Matthew parker, Gabriel Harvey and John Leland, among others) approached the historicity of Britain's ancient past, whether Trojan or otherwise. The following section explores the ways in which scholars and readers, including Lambarde, construed the fides or credibility of claims concerning such pasts, by dissecting their various strategies for assessing and visualising textual authority and authorial probity, ranging from the production of marginalia to index-making. This section includes an extended case study of the way in which one assiduous reader of Lambarde--Adam Winthrop, father of the future Massachusetts governor John Winthrop--applied these strategies in his copiously annotated copy of the Perambulation. The article closes with broader reflections upon new directions in the history of historical scholarship and the history of reading. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay focuses on the drafts and discussions which went into the first (1576) edition of the Perambulation. Lambarde's autograph drafts and letters set his work in dialogue with other contemporary efforts to study the English past, in particular Matthew parker's De antiquitate Britannicae ecclesiae (1572). This book developed in tandem with Lambarde's. Lambarde and parker created and shared drafts in manuscript and print as they delved into kentish church history. Remnants of their conversations about sources like the Textus roffensis can be found in their books and even in the manuscripts under discussion. Revision, like reading, was a particular social enterprise with its own conventions. The line between a finished, printed presentation copy and a manuscript draft was completely blurred: both constituted a 'beare whelpe that lacketh licking'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article deals with a set of images which were probably the first on four continents: the Jesuit Jerome Nadal's Evangelicae Historiae Imagines Story), first published in Antwerp in 1593. It begins with a brief discussion about Nadal's life and the production history of his book, as well as Adnotationes et Meditationes in Evangelia quae in sacrosanto missae sacrificio (Annotations and Meditations on the Gospel which are to be read throughout Sacrifice of the Mass), which acts as a commentary to the Imagines. of the structure of the two books, and how they narrate and expound Gospels. The remaining sections discuss the adaptations of Nadal's imagery. received much attention from scholars around the world in recent decades, the aim of the present article is to bring together research on the use and re-use of these images in Europe, the Americas, India, China, Japan, Iran and Ethiopia, and to make clear their global impact a way that has not been attempted before. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers criticism of the royalist book "Faerie Leveller" by Samuel Sheppard. It outlines the history and prophecy of the book. The author discusses the depiction of the poems of poet Edmund Spencer. The highlight of the Second Civil War and the besieged royal army during the war are also noted.

An early modern printed book is a facade, a public surface that may be radically at odds with the reality that lies beneath it. This essay explores two books by an obscure father-and-son duo, James and Henry Chillester, in which all is not as it seems. The first, a translation of a French mirror for princes by Pierre Boaistuau, turns out to be based on a purloined manuscript stolen from its true translator after his death by way of his wife. The second, a verse and prose miscellany entitled Youths Witte, or The Witte of Grene Youth, was probably also a literary forgery. Unpicking the web of unsuspected agents behind these books affords us a rich insight into the mechanisms of textual production in the period, illuminating the relationship between print, the city and the Elizabethan administration. The Chillesters' publications also show how translation could be linked to forms of personal and political untrustworthiness-to spying, informing, theft and imposture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A literary criticism of the book "Symposium" by Plato is presented. It outlines the book's passage and substance and explores their symbolic significance in Greece. It focuses on the melodic and rhythmic aspects of the book as well as its distinction of musical and nonmusical composition in literature.

The essay talks about the Book History Workshop at the Texas A&M University. It states that the Workshop has proved useful for students of bibliography, printing history, and textual studies. According to bibliographer Ronald B. McKerrow, for understanding books, a student needs to understand all the processes of starting a book to finishing the book. Prominent bibliographer Philip Gaskell is mentioned.

The article contains an annotated chronological catalogue of advertisements for printed dramas appearing in English serial publications between July 1646 and November 1668. Topics considered include issues with dating early modern print materials such as competing calendars, booksellers' advertisements, and extant catalogs of seventeenth-century dramas by scholars W. W. Greg and Sybil Rosenfeld.

The article examines the publication and reception history of the book "Black Rock," by Charles William Gordon. It explores the cause of the spectacular popularity of Gordon as an author, as well as the wide reception of his novel. The author analyzes that the lack of copyright of the book was a major factor of its wide production and reception.

The article discusses the publication of the first complete edition of the book "Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography," by Charles and Jules Renouard. It explores how the editors of the book collate the memoirs of Benjamin Franklin which are not written all at once. The article also traces the bizarre history of editions of autobiographies of Franklin.

Examines book history to validate the contemporary concepts of the `author.' Evidence for commodification of the author in publishing practices; Fusion of two separate ontologies of the word `author'; Account of the disjunction in the concept of the author; Cultural and economic discourses depicted on the materiality of books.