The church and the book : papers read at the 2000 Summer Meeting and the 2001 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society / edited by R.N. Swanson.

Includes bibliographical references.

In the beginning was the Codex: the early church and its revolutionary books / Stuart G. Hall -- Book of the Councils: Nicaea I to Vatican II / Norman Tanner -- Early medieval introductions to the Holy Book: adjuncts or hermeneutic? / Thomas O'Loughlin -- St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, and the 'first books of the whole English church' / Richard Emms -- Carolingian church and the book / Rosamond McKitterick -- Rituale: the evolution of a new liturgical book / Sarah Hamilton -- Scholar's suitcase: books and the transfer of knowledge in twelfth-century Europe / Christoph Egger -- Biblical authority in the writing of Pope Innocent IV (1243-54) / Susan Martin -- Images of ladies with prayer books: what do they signify? / Michael Clanchy -- Jewels for gentlewomen: religious books as artefacts in late medieval and early modern England / Alexandra Walsham -- Triple deckers and eagle lecterns: church furniture for the book in late medieval and early modern England / Susan Wabuda -- Piety, penance, and popular reading in devotion to the Virgin Mary and her miracles: Italian incunabula and early printed collections / Ruth Chavasse -- Lap books and lectern books: the revelatory book in the Reformation / Margaret Aston -- Christian brethren and the dissemination of heretical books / James Davis -- Bernardino Ochino's books and English religious opinion: 1547-80 / M.A. Overell -- Dressed in borrowed robes: the making and marketing of the Louvain Bible (1578) / Elizabeth Morley Ingram -- Luther and the book: the iconography of the Ninety-Five Theses / Brian Cummings -- 'Good old way': prayer book Protestantism in 1640s and 1650s / Judith Maltby -- Provision of books for poor clergy parochial libraries in the British Isles and the North American colonies, 1680-1720 / W.M. Jacob -- Writing the history of the English Bible in the early eighteenth century / Scott Mandelbrote -- Memories of faith: the 'Christian sutras' of eighteenth-century China / Lars Peter Laamann -- 'I will tell you a word or two about Cardiganshire': Welsh clerics and literature in the eighteenth century / Geraint H. Jenkins -- Some architectural aspects of the role of manuals in changes to Anglican liturgical practice in the nineteenth century / James Bettley -- Communications between cultures: difficulties in the design and distribution of Christian literature in nineteenth-century India / Graham W. Shaw -- Dealing with development: the Protestant reviews of John Henry Newman's An essay on the development of Christian doctrine, 1845-7 / Erik Sidenvall -- Text as sacrament: Victorian Broad Church philology / Jeremy Morris -- Journal. La civiltà Cattolica from Pius IX to Pius XII (1850-1958) / Oliver Logan.