From Jewish Badges in 1218 to Technofascism in 2025

A short book I’m writing with the somewhat forbidding title, Book History Is Not the History of the Book: Four Essays from Fifteenth-Century England , is founded on the simple premise that the traditional, linear formulas that have structured the field of book history (from orality to literacy, from roll to codex, from manuscript to print, and from print to digital) represent a technologically…