| Jan. 17 | Introduction; Febvre & Martin, The Coming of the Book. (1957) Darnton, “What Is the History of the Book?” 1983 |
| Jan. 24 | Febvre & Martin; . 1979 |
| Jan. 31 | Eisenstein. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change |
| Feb. 7 | Chartier, ed. The Culture of Print: Power and the Uses of
Print in Early Modern Europe. 1987
Les usages de l'imprime (1987). Chap. III: Catherine Velay-Vallantin. Le miroir des contes. Perrault dans les Bibliothèques bleues. 129-85, Chap. IV: Paul Saenger. “Prier de bouche et prier de coeur. Les livres d’heures du manuscrit à l’imprimé. 191-227. |
| Feb. 14 | An answer to
Eisenstein. Not just high culture.
Scribner. For the Sake of Simple Folk. Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. |
| Feb. 21 | Another answer to Eisenstein.
Gilmont. The Reformation and the Book. 1990. Trans. 1998 |
| Feb. 28 | Finding the reader: through the new writer.
Martin. The History and Power of Writing. 1988. Trans. 1994. |
| Mar. 7 | An example of the power of the newly-literate writer
José Rabasa. Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier. 2000. |
| Mar. 14 | THE BOOKS. Visit to the Bancroft Library, IISTC, reports |
| Mar. 21 | Is this the promised up-to-date overview?
A History of Reading in the West. Cavallo & Chartier. 1999. Chap. 7, “The Humanist as Reader,” 179-212. Chap. 8, “Protestant Reformations and Reading,” Jean-François Gilmont, pp. 213-37. Chap. 9, “Reading and the Counter-Reformation,” Dominique Julia, 238-268. Chap. 10, “Reading Matter and ‘Popular’ Reading: From the Renaissance to the Seventeenth Century,” Roger Chartier, pp. 269-81. Is the book the center of Renaissance history? Jardine. Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance. 1996. Chap. 3. The World of Books.” |
| Mar. 26-30 | Spring Break |
| Apr. 4 | Literacy and religious change
Heresy and Literacy, 1000-1530. 1994 “Were the Waldensians more literate than their contemporaries (1460-1560?)” Gabriel Audisio, pp. 176-85. “Writing and resistance among Beguins of Languedoc and Catalonia.” Robert E. Lerner. pp. 186-204. “Religious reading amonst the laity in France in the fifteenth century.” Geneviève Hasenohr, pp. 205-21. “Laicus litteratus: the paradox of Lollardy.” Anne Hudson. pp. 222-37. “Literacy and heresy in Hussite Bohemia.” František Šmahel. pp. 237-54. “Heterodoxy, literacy and print in the early German Reformation.” Bob Scribner. pp. 255-78. “Literacy, heresy, history and orthodoxy: perspectives and permutations for the later Middle Ages.” R. N. Swanson. 279-93. David Cressy. Literacy and the Social Order. Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England. 1980 Chap. 1. “Reading, writing and the margins of literacy. pp. 1-18. Chap. 2. “The acquisition of literacy. pp. 19-41. Chap. 3. “The measurement of literacy. pp. 42-61. |
| Apr. 11 | The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print. Edited by Neil Rhodes and Jonathan Sawday. Routledge, 2000 |
| Apr. 18 | Education
Kristian Jensen. “Text-books in the universities: The evidence from the Books.” Cambridge History of the Book in Britain (1999), 354-79. Nicholas Orme. “Schools and School-books.” Cambridge History (1999) 449-69 Strauss. Luther’s House of Learning: Indoctrination of the Young. 1978 Chap. 1. Introduction: Reformation and Education. pp. 1-28. Chap. 9. Techniques of Indoctrination: School. pp. 176-202. Chap. 14. Conclusions. pp. 300-308. Grendler, Paul F. “Schooling in Western Europe.” No. V (paged 775-787). “The Organization of Primary and Secondary Education in the Italian Renaissance.” No. VI (paged 185-205. In Books and Schools in the Italian Renaissance. Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Brookfield, Vt.: Variorum, 1995. |
| Apr. 25 | The image, broadsheet and picture strip; propaganda and moral message
Christiane Andersson. "Popular Imagery in German Reformation Broadsheets." In Print and Culture in the Renaissance. Essays on the Advent of Printing in Europe. Ed. by Gerald P. Tyson, Sylvia S. Wagonheim. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1986. pp. 120-50. Keith P. F. Moxey. "The Function of Peasant Imagery in German Graphics." In Print and Culture in the Renaissance. Essays on the Advent of Printing in Europe. Ed. by Gerald P. Tyson, Sylvia S. Wagonheim. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1986. pp.151-88. David Kunzle. The Early Comic Strip. UC Press, 1973. Introduction (definition and audience) Part I, Politics. Chap. 1. The First Century of Printing, Religious Propaganda (1450-1550). Chap. 2. France and the Netherlands (c.1560-1620) Part II. Personal Morality. Chap. 6. Private Crime, Public execution. Chap. 7. Vices and Follies. Die Graphiksammlung des Humanisten Hartmann Schedel. Munich, 1990. |
| May 2 | The common-place book
Kevin Sparke. Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England. 2000. Review by Darnton in the NY Review of Books, Dec. 21, 2000. |