Edinburgh Napier University

  The articles in this edited collection trace the history of the book in Germany from the manuscript tradition through to the twentieth century. Contents:
1. Mary Fischer: Winning Hearts and Minds: the role of the written word in the crusades in north-eastern Europe in the fourteenth century.
2. Henrike Laehnemann: From Print to Manuscript: the case of a manuscript workshop in Stuttgart around 1475.
John L. Flood: GW 6002: A Typographical Conundrum from 1479.
3. Jeffrey Ashcroft: Ne sint Magistri sine Libris: Early german printed books in the libraries of St Andrews University.
4. William A. Kelly: Medical and Scientific Publishing in Germany, 1601-1800.
5. Susan Reed: Printing the Revolution: Berlin broadsides from 1848.
6. Jasmin Lange: Marketing Rules: changing publishing strategies in the Weimar period.
7. Alistair McCleery: The German Paperback tradition and Its Influence.