Charting the "rise of the west": Manuscripts and printed books in Europe, a long-term perspective from the sixth through eighteenth centuries

Journal of Economic History

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 409-445

  Buringh, Eltjo ^a   van Zanden, Jan Luiten ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL HISTORY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC HISTORY; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; LITERACY; MEDIEVAL; TEXTBOOK; URBANIZATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70549083942     PISSN: 00220507     EISSN: 14716372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022050709000837     Document Type: Article

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