Alessandro Manzoni's famous poem—I promessi sposi (The Betrothed)—begins with these
words. This poem, which is the milestone of modern Italian literature, led many generations …

In this article, I argue that we should consider the medical case narrative as an “epistemic
genre.” I suggest that historians of knowledge (including medical knowledge) should draw a …

1. I should like here to record my debt to a number of nineteenth-century and early twentieth-
century German book historians: Kirchhoff 1853a, von Hase 1885, Kapp 1886, Könnecke …

The volume provides a systematic view on recent and contemporary research into textbooks
in a range of contexts. As well as exploring the historical development and the design of …

The Protean Virgil argues that when we try to understand how and why different readers
have responded differently to the same text over time, we should take into account the …

Concentrating on the rich tradition of graphic culture that permeated Scotland's universities
during the long eighteenth century, this essay argues that student lecture notebooks were a …

The development of paper-based information technologies in the early modern period is a
field of enquiry that has lately benefited from extensive studies by intellectual historians and …

This essay offers an overview of how manuals and handbooks have contributed to the
standardization, codification, transmission and revision of knowledge. These instructional …

Jordan J. Ballor takes as his point of departure the doctrine of the covenant as it appears in
the theology of the prominent second-generation reformer, Wolfgang Musculus (1497 …

Why did people talk so much about avarice in late Renaissance France, nearly a century
before Molière's famous comedy, L'Avare? As wars and economic crises ravaged France on …