> No one before Dames seems to have asked where this ancient and deeply established convention came from, or how it spread That's odd. In the 90s I took a coll

> No one before Dames seems to have asked where this ancient and deeply established convention came from, or how it spread That's odd. In the 90s I took a college course called History of the Book and I distinctly remember talking about chapters. I also remember talking about them in several medieval history classes, where we talked about how information and art and letter styles spread, too. Maybe Nicholas Dames is a time traveler!