Approaches to the History of Written Culture: A World Inscribed

1. A World Inscribed - Introduction.- 2. The Babylonian Scribes and their Libraries.- 3. Writings in the Korean Han'g l Script by and for the Women of Chos n Korea.- 4. Paper World: The Materiality of Loss in the Pre-modern Age.- 5. Writings on the Streets: Ephemeral Texts and Public Space in the Early Modern Hispanic World.- 6. Writing One's Life: The French School of the Anthropology of Writing.- 7. Calendar, Chronicle and Songs of Sorrows: Generic Sources of Life Writing in Nineteenth-Century Finland.- 8. Reading the 'Cheyenne Letter': Towards a Typology of Inscription Beyond the Alphabet.- 9. The Scribal Culture of Children: A Fragmentary History.- 10.  Policing Writing in the City, 1852-1945: The Invention of Scriptural Delinquency.- 11. QWERTYUIOP: How the Typewriter Influenced Writing Practices.- 12.  The Future of the History of Writing.- Bibliography.- Index.