Table of Contents:
  • Ritual and print. discipline and invention: the fete in France from the Middle Ages to the Revolution
  • Texts and images. the arts of dying, 1450-1600
  • From texts to manners. a concept and its books: Civilite between aristocratic distinction and popular appropriation
  • From words to texts. the Cahiers de doleances of 1789
  • Publishing strategies and what the people read, 1530-1660
  • Urban reading practices, 1660-1780
  • The Bibliotheque bleue and popular reading
  • The literature of roguery in the Bibliotheque bleue.