What is the history of chapters?

When did ‘chapter’ come to mean a section or subdivision of a book?

And what have authors done with the creative possibilities of the subsection, the chapter title or the book as a sum of its parts?

Join Professor Helen Smith, of the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, for a fun and fast-paced tour of chapters past, present and future.

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