European history

The book is an analysis of the cultural and social functions of law, legal processes and legal rituals in late medieval Northern France.

Despite the fact that, if only by number, small and peripheral cities played an important role in fifteenth and sixteenth-century European print culture, book history has mainly been dominated by monographs on individual big book centres.

Of the leading print centres in early modern Europe, Wittenberg was the only one that was not a major centre of trade, politics, or culture.