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Over the last several decades, historical scholarship has investigated the manifold material, cultural, and political implications of reading in early modern Europe. A rediscovery of the material aspects of the print and book trade has led to new assessments of the role of reading in general cultural and political developments since the Renaissance and, in particular, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a period which witnessed dynastic crises, civil wars and restorations across Europ... |