Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Walter Benjamin's Aura and Early Modern Textuality
  • 1. Reading Defacement? Labels, Illustration, and Intervention in the Roman de Buscalus (Paris, BnF, MS fr. 9343-9344)
  • 2. Aura of the Word in a Handwritten Letter: Or an Observation on the Political Arts in the Rebel State of Holland (1574)
  • 3. Speech as Object in Konrad Witz
  • 4. Building with Words: The Notre-Dame-des-Marais in La Ferté-Bernard and Related Applications of the Letter-Shaped Balustrade in Sixteenth-Century France
  • 5. A Brief Message on Salvation: Minor Textual Amulets-Form, Use, Transmission
  • 6. Jewish Concepts of the Holiness of Script in the Age of Printing: The Case of the Genizah
  • 7. Sermo inter absentee: Aura and Simulated Aura in Justus Lipsius's Letters and Dialogues
  • 8. Dürer, Drawing, and Allegory
  • 9. The Aura of the Letter: Cornells Crul's ABC Poem in BL Sloane MS 1174 and Sixteenth-Century Views on Form and Content
  • 10. Literary Counter monuments of the Late Middle Ages
  • 11. "Tasting the Gospel": Transformative Reading and Textual Intimacy among Early English Reformers
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index