Съдържание:
  • Introduction : from binding to burning / Philip Rousseau
  • Making the book
  • The word made visible : the exterior of the early Christian book as visual argument / John Lowden
  • Books and book production in the monastic communities of Byzantine Egypt / Chrysi Kotsifou
  • Constructing texts
  • Talmud and "fathers of the church" : theologies and the making of books / Daniel Boyarin
  • The Syriac Book of women : text and metatext / Catherine Burris
  • Passages and places
  • Through the looking glass darkly : Jerome inside the book / Catherine M. Chin
  • City of books : Augustine and the world as text / Gillian Clark
  • Ceremony and the law
  • Judging by the book : Christian codices and late antique legal culture / Caroline Humfress
  • The symbolics of bookburning : the establishment of a Christian ritual of persecution / Daniel Sarefield
  • Texts and the body
  • Engendering palimpsests : reading the textual tradition of the Acts of Paul and Thecla / Kim Haines-Eitzen
  • Holy texts, holy men, and holy scribes : aspects of Scriptural holiness in late antiquity / Claudia Rapp
  • Theory and the book
  • Sanctum, lector, percense volumen : snakes, readers, and the whole text in Prudentius's Hamartigenia / Catherine Conybeare
  • Theory, or the dream of the book (Mallarme to Blanchot) / Mark Vessey.