The order of books
readers, authors, and libraries in Europe between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries
by Chartier, Roger, Roger Chartier, and Lydia Cochrane
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English translation of L'ordre des livres (originally published 1992 in France by Editions Alinea)
Between the end of the Middle Ages and the eighteenth century, what methods were used to monitor and control the increasing number of texts--from the early handwrtten books to the later, printed volumes--that were being put into circulation?
In The Order of Books, Roger Chartier examines the different systems required to regulate the world of writing through the centuries, from the registration of titles to the classification of works. The modern world has, he argues, directly inherited the products of this labor: the basic principle of referring to texts, the dream of a universal library, real or imaginary, containing all the works ever written, and the emergence of a new definition of the book leading to some of the innovations that transformed the relationship of the reader to the text.
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Authors and readers, Authorship, Books and reading, History, Intellectual life, Libraries, history of the book, reading, Bibliographic & subject control, Authors, european, Libraries, history, Libraries, europe, Books and reading, history, Europe, intellectual lifePlaces
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The order of books: readers, authors, and libraries in Europe between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries
1994, Polity Press
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The order of books: readers, authors, and libraries in Europe between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries
1994, Stanford University Press
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The Order of Books: Readers, Authors and Libraries in Europe Between the 14th and 18th Centuries
December 9, 1993, Blackwell Publishers
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