For over a thousand years before I 789 any outline of the Italian peninsula would have shown a political patchwork of individual states, similar in their disparity to the miscellany of countries which made up western Europe. Each of those city states had its centre of p...

The marks of elite forms such as the ode or the tragedy are retained when a title is cited. Historians of the book have considered every marginal element of the early modern title-page: typeface and compositors' marks; printers' scrollwork and frontispiece design; autho...

This paper is part of an enquiry into the cultural background to the normal ization of measures in France at the end of the eighteenth century. But since it is being given at a meeting of the Modern Humanities Research Association, it seems appropriate to speak first a ...