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These astonishing episodes, recovered from erasures tucked between books of the Bible, are emblematic of the Rouses' method. Combining codicology, deep archival research, bibliographical mastery, and, most important, deep sympathy for their historical subjects, their own collaboration uncovers the most varied examples of teamwork in the past. In the process, their persistent, probing scrutiny renders visible a Middle Ages previously lost from view. --Common Knowledge, Volume 21, No. 1 [Bound Fast with Letters] a useful and frequently humbling compendium of what one particular approach to manuscript study can reveal as it is exercised over many years and on a broad spectrum of materials. . . The many discoveries about the Middle Ages laid out in Bound Fast with Letters--discoveries made through extraordinarily skilled research and explained with erudite lucidity--demonstrate the value of Richard and Mary Rouse's approach to the study of the past. --Modern Philology, vol. 113, no. 3, Feb. 2016 Over four decades the Rouses' prolific work on medieval manuscripts has continuously advanced knowledge in this field by providing convincing answers to and unique examples of the way books were conceived, constructed, copied, illuminated, commissioned, sold, and used. . . . The result is a breathtaking stretch of work ranging from writing practices in fifth-century Northern Africa to fifteenth-century commercial book-making in France and Italy. --Manuscripta, vol. 58, no. 2, 2014

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Richard H. Rouse is professor of history emeritus at University of California, Los Angeles. Mary A. Rouse is former managing editor of Viator. They are coauthors of a number of books, including Manuscripts and Their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris, 1200–1500.

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