"An ambitious exposition of the topic of memory and the transmission of knowledge in early modern Spain."--

Foreword, by Roger Chartier
1. Hearing, Seeing, Reading, and Writing: The Forms and Uses of Words, Images, and Writing
2. The Persuasion of the Word: A Voice; The Wonder of Images: A Portrait; The Power of Writing: A Talisman
3. Natural History of the Written Text: Authors, Scribes, Printers, Booksellers, and Readers
4. Classrooms, Libraries, and Archives as the Culmination of Human Memory
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names
Acknowledgments

Fernando Bouza is a Professor in the Department of Early Modern History at the Complutensian University in Madrid. He is author of a number of books, including Imagen y propaganda: capitulos de historia cultural del reinado de Felipe II, and Del escribano a la biblioteca. Roger Chartier is Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Professor in the College de France, and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous books, including Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.