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For the dreadful blitz days of 1940, the editorial in the London Times may have seemed a minor issue. But not to the Times’s readers. The editorial had simply reported that out of a group of 31 ...

MUSKOGEE, OK -- Imagine taking a step back in time and living in sixteenth-century Renaissance England in 1539. Thousands of people are doing just that. They're taking a break from reality and ...

I: Of marks and methods -- Introduction: used books -- Toward a history of the manicule -- Reading the matriarchive -- II: Reading and religion -- "The book thus put in every vulgar hand": marking the ...