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A collection of essays examining how print culture shaped the legacy of the Enlightenment. Explores the challenges, contradictions, and dilemmas modern European societies have encountered since the eighteenth century in trying to define, spread, and realize Enlightenment ideas and values.

John Williams and four other mediaeval scholars challenge conventional wisdom on biblical illustration, and find it to be an enterprise guided in its genesis by the dynamics of a new culture. They argue that illustrated Bibles were shaped by ad hoc decisions resulting in a variety of approaches.