What might it mean to use books rather than read them? This work examines the relationship between book use and forms of thought and theory in the early modern

Goldstein presents a lively analysis of Shakespeare, Milton, religious writers and recipe book authors from the perspective of communal eating.

In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the n

Contains forty original essays.

To the readers who ask themselves: What is science?', this volume provides an answer from an early modern perspective, whereby science included such various int