The Culture of Print: Power and the Uses of Print in Early Modern Europe.

The stream of histoire du livre books coming from France, and usually from the pen or the editorial hand of Roger Chartier, continues, as does their translation into English. The Culture of Print. Power and the Uses of Print in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Polity P., 1989; pp. 351. |pounds~35) originally appeared in France in 1987 as Les Usages de l'imprime' and is well translated (despite one or two slightly strange Italian names) by Lydia Cochrane. The volume is divided into three parts, 'Print to Capture the Imagination', 'Religious Uses', and 'Political Representation and Persuasion', each section containing three articles. In the first Alain Boureau considers the uses …