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• Europe -- History -- To 1500

• Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Glending Olson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

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• Recueil de littérature, de philosophie, et d'histoire. (François L'Honoré, 1730), by Charles-Etienne Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770-1815 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2014), by Matt Erlin (Epub and PDF at Cornell Open)

• Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770-1815 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2014), by Matt Erlin (Epub and PDF at Cornell Open)
• The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2018), by Eric Downing
  • Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE
• Building a National Literature: The Case of Germany, 1830-1870 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Peter Uwe Hohendahl, trans. by Renate Franciscono
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2018), by Eric Downing
  • Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE

• The Old Printer and the Modern Press (London: J. Murray, 1854), by Charles Knight
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies, by Barbara M. Benedict (HTML at Princeton)

• Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by William W. E. Slights (page images at HathiTrust)

• Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies, by Barbara M. Benedict (HTML at Princeton)

• Clarissa, or, The history of a young lady : comprehending the most important concerns of private life (AMS Press, 1990), by Samuel Richardson and Clarissa Project (page images at HathiTrust)

• A bookseller of the last century; being some account of the life of John Newbery, and of the books he published, with a notice of the later Newberys. (Printed for Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, successors to Newbery & Harris;, 1885), by Charles Welsh, E.P. Dutton (Firm), and Farran Griffith (page images at HathiTrust)

• The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 (second edition; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Richard D. Altick, contrib. by Jonathan Rose (PDF at Ohio State)
• Reading for moral progress : 19th century institutions promoting social change (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997), by Donald G. Davis, John Mark Tucker, David M. Hovde, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and Conference on Faith and History (1994 : Messiah College) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Charles Dickens as a Reader, by Charles Kent (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson) (New York: The Century Co., 1899), by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, contrib. by Lewis Carroll
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The history of the Catnach Press : at Berwick-upon-Tweed, Alnwick and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in Northumberland, and Seven Dials, London (C. Hindley [the younger], 1886), by Charles Hindley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Lady of England: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker, by Agnes Giberne (Gutenberg ebook)

• Toward a Working-Class Canon: Literary Criticism in British Working-Class Periodicals, 1816-1858 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), by Paul Thomas Murphy (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Books Condemned to be Burnt (London: E. Stock, 1892), by James Anson Farrer
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by William W. E. Slights (page images at HathiTrust)

• Old English Libraries: The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages, by Ernest Albert Savage (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Srpska knjiga : njeni prodavci i čitaoci u XIX veku : pred osvitak XX veka razsmatrao i belezhio (Shtamp. Krajievine Srbije, 1900), by Stojan Novaković (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Srpska knjiga, njeni prodavci i čitaoci u XIX veku : pred osvitak XX veka (Državna štamparija Kraljevine Srbije, 1900), by Stojan Novaković (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Men and women of the Middle Ages (G.C. Harrap & co., 1928), by Dorothy Margaret Stuart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Die handelspolitik der österreichischen herrscher im mittelalter. Vortrag gehalten in der feierlichen sitzung der R.Akademie der Wissenschaften am 31.mai, 1893. (F.Tempsky, 1893), by Arnold Luschin von Ebengreuth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kurze Erklärung der Weltkarte des Frauenklosters Ebstorf (J.P. Bachem, 1896), by Konrad Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kriegsgeschichte von Bayern, Franken, Pfalz und Schwaben von der ältesten Zeit bis 1273 (Literarisch-artistische Anstalt (Th. Riedel), 1870), by Adolf Erhard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beiträge zur Geschichte der sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Lage und Entwicklung der ackerbautreibenden Bevölkerung in den Grafschaften Hoya und Diepholz im Mittelalter (A. Lax, 1910), by Paul Maeder (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Beiträge zur Geschichte der sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Lage und Entwicklung der ackerbautreibenden Bevölkerung in den Grafschaften Hoya und Diepholz im Mittelalter (A. Lax, 1910), by Paul Maeder (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Kriegsgeschichte von Bayern, Franken, Pfalz und Schwaben von der ältesten Zeit bis 1273 (Literarisch-artistische Anstalt (Th. Riedel), 1870), by Adolf Erhard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ueber das Olmützer Stadtbuch des Wenzel von Iglau. (C. Winiker, 1882), by Wilh Saliger, přírodoznalství a vlastivědy v Brně Moravsko-slezská společnost pro zvelebení orby, and Mahrische Gesellschaft zur Beförderung des Landivirtschaft der Natur- und Landeskunde Brünn. Historisch Statistische Section (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Summa legum brevis levis et utilis des Sogenannten Doctor Raymundus von Wiener-Neustadt : im Auftrage und mit Unterstützung der Savigny-Stiftung sowie der Notgemeinschaft der deutschen Wissenschaft (H. Böhlaus nachfolger, 1926), by of Wiener Neustadt Raymundus, Alexander Gal, Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft, and Savigny-Stiftung (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Lex Salica und ihre Verschiedenen Recensionen : ein Historisch-kritischer Versuch auf dem gebiete des germanischen Rechts (Palm, 1831), by Eduard August Feuerbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das alte magdeburgische und hallische Recht : ein Beitrage zur deutschen Rechtsgeschichte (J. Max und Komp., 1826), by Ernst Theodor Gaupp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das römische Recht in Deutschland während des zwölften und dreizehnten Jahrhunderts (T. Blaesing, 1859), by Wilhelm Schaeffner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beiträge zur Geschichte der sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Lage und Entwicklung der ackerbautreibenden Bevölkerung in den Grafschaften Hoya und Diepholz im Mittelalter (A. Lax, 1910), by Paul Maeder (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Glending Olson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Aryan household : its structure, and its development : an introduction to comparative jurisprudence (Lawbook Exchange, 2002), by William Edward Hearn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Zur Geschichte der Handelsgesellschaften im Mittelalter, Nach Südeuropäischen Quellen (in German; Stuttgart: F. Enke, 1889), by Max Weber (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Aryan household : its structure, and its development : an introduction to comparative jurisprudence (Lawbook Exchange, 2002), by William Edward Hearn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The arts course at medieval universities (Champaign, Ill., 1910), by Louis John Paetow (page images at HathiTrust)

• Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Glending Olson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Medieval People, by Eileen Power (Gutenberg ebook)

• Sphragistische Aphorismen; 300 mittelalterliche Siegel, systematisch classificirt und erläutert. (Schell, 1882), by Friedrich Karl Hohenlohe-Waldenburg (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Malleus Maleficarum and the Construction of Witchcraft: Theology and Popular Belief (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2003), by Hans Peter Broedel (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Woman under monasticism : chapters on saint-lore and convent life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 (University Press ;, 1896), by Lina Eckenstein (page images at HathiTrust)

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