{"product_id":"portable-manuscripts-and-their-utility-julia-bruch-9781802701920","title":"Portable Manuscripts and Their Utility in the Late Middle Ages","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the mobility of merchants' manuscripts--understood as written records in various forms--and their role in shaping and reflecting late medieval social structures. Focusing on merchants as key agents of manuscript circulation, it highlights their impact across fairs and markets in the Holy Roman Empire. Blending cultural and economic history, the chapters span fifteenth- and sixteenth-century case studies that challenge conventional periodization. Drawing on interdisciplinary methods, the book traces manuscripts from production to dissemination and the formation of reading communities. It argues that the history of the premodern economy is incomplete without accounting for the movement of manuscripts as material and social objects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julia Bruch, Katharina M. Hofer, Ulla Kypta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1802701923\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781802701920\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ARC Humanities Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 155\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Julia Bruch","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47244535824639,"sku":"9781802701920","price":136.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0587ea74-e8b9-4e70-bf29-038ea03c1ded.jpg?v=1758135974","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/portable-manuscripts-and-their-utility-julia-bruch-9781802701920","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}