This book presents and explores a challenging new approach in book
history. It offers a coherent volume of thirteen chapters in the field
of early modern book history covering a wide range of topics and it is
written by renowned scholars in the field. The rationale and content of
this volume will revitalize the theoretical and methodological debate in
book history. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in
the field of early modern book history as well as in a range of other
disciplines. It offers book historians an innovative methodological
approach on the life cycle of books in and outside Europe. It is also
highly relevant for social-economic and cultural historians because of
the focus on the commercial, legal, spatial, material and social aspects
of book culture. Scholars that are interested in the history of science,
ideas and news will find several chapters dedicated to the production,
circulation and consumption of knowledge and news media.