A social history of knowledge : from Gutenberg to Diderot / Peter Burke.

Cambridge : Polity, 2000.

vii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"Based on the first series of Vonhoff Lectures given at the University of Groningen (Netherlands)."

Sociologies and histories of knowledge: an introduction -- Professing knowledge: the European clerisy -- Establishing knowledge: institutions old and new -- Locating knowledge: centres and peripheries -- Classifying knowledge: curricula, libraries and encyclopedias -- Controlling knowledge: churches and states -- Selling knowledge: the market and the press -- Acquiring knowledge: the reader's share -- Trusting and distrusting knowledge: a coda.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-250) and index.