Table of Contents

Introduction Cynthia Johnston
1. Recasting book history Simon Eliot
2. Information flows in rural Babylonia c. 1500 BCE Eleanor Robson
3. The circulation of history books in twelfth-century Normandy Laura Cleaver
4. Some medieval readers of Aristotle Pamela Robinson
5. The encyclopedia and the codex: pages, margins and entries Katharine Schopflin
6. The Wonderful Discoveries: English witchcraft and early Stuart pamphlet culture Jessica Starr
7. ‘Propaganda bestsellers’: British Official War Books, 1941–6 Henry Irving

About the Author

Cynthia Johnston is course tutor and associate research fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. In 2015 she co-curated the popular Cotton to Gold exhibition at Two Temple Place.