Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe

Benito Rial Costas, Ph.D. (2006) in Spanish Philology, University of Santiago de Compostela, is an independent scholar based in Italy. He has published on print culture in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, including Producción y comercio del libro (2007).Contributors include: Falk Eisermann, Paul F. Gehl, John Hinks, Natalia Maillard Álvarez, Ian Maxted, Hubert Meeus, Jaime Moll, István Monok, Marta M. Nadales, José Manuel Pedraza Gracia, Manuel Peña Díaz, Rafael M. Pérez García, Giancarlo Petrella, Fermín de los Reyes, Benito Rial Costas, Anastasio Rojo Vega, Pablo Sánchez León, Wolfgang Undorf, and Malcolm Walsby.

“The volume lives up to its ambitions and contains much that is novel and useful.”Ian Maclean, All Souls College, Oxford University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Fall 2013), pp. 964-965. “The caliber of research in all essays in the volume is extremely high, with some genuinely outstanding contributions […] both the editor and contributors should be congratulated on this remarkable and thought-provoking volume.”Alexander S. Wilkinson, University College Dublin. In: SHARP News, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Autumn 2014), p. 10.“this is a welcome collection of studies illustrating the less-than-usual corners of the early-modern book trade in Europe.”David J. Shaw, Canterbury. In: Publishing History, Vol. 73 (2013), pp. 81-84.“Así un volumen que nos ofrece, sin duda, una óptica absolutamente novedosa y que, aventuramos, tendrá un feliz recorrido en los próximos años.”José Luis Gonzalo Sánchez-Molero, University Complutense of Madrid. In: Revista General de Información y Documentación, Vol. 23, No. 2 (2013), pp. 462-464.

• AcknowledgmentsContributorsList of IllustrationsIntroductionPart I. Small Cities in ContextChapter 1: Pablo Sánchez LeónEuropean Provincial Towns: Demographic and Institutional Trends in Regional Networks, 1400–1600Part II. Printing and the Book Trade in Small European CitiesChapter 2: Falk EisermannA Golden Age? Monastic Printing Houses in the Fifteenth CenturyChapter 3: Paul F. GehlAdvertising or Fama? Local Markets for Schoolbooks in Sixteenth-Century ItalyChapter 4: John HinksThe Book Trade in Early Modern Britain: Centres, Peripheries and NetworksChapter 5: Ian MaxtedImpressorie Arte: The Impact of Printing in Exeter and DevonChapter 6: Hubert MeeusPrinting in the Shadow of a MetropolisChapter 7: István MonokTowns and Book Culture in Hungary at the End of the Fifteenth Century and During the Sixteenth CenturyChapter 8: Giancarlo PetrellaIppolito Ferrarese, a Traveling ‘Cerretano’ and Publisher in Sixteenth-Century ItalyChapter 9: Wolfgang UndorfPrint and Book Culture in the Danish Town of OdenseChapter 10: Malcolm WalsbyPrinter Mobility in Sixteenth-Century FrancePart III. Printing and the Book Trade in Small Spanish CitiesChapter 11: Natalia Maillard Álvarez and Rafael M. Pérez GarcíaPrinting Presses in Antequera in the Sixteenth CenturyChapter 12: Jaime MollThe Liturgical Books Published by Pedro de Castro, Bishop of Cuenca (1554–1561)Chapter 13: José Manuel Pedraza GraciaMinor Printing Offices in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Aragon: Híjar, Huesca and ÉpilaChapter 14: Manuel Peña DíazBarcelona: Printers, Booksellers and Local Markets in the Sixteenth CenturyChapter 15: Fermín de los Reyes and Marta M. NadalesThe Book in Segovia in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Accident, Chance, Necessity?Chapter 16: Benito Rial CostasSantiago de Compostela: A Case Study of Bookselling in PeripheriesChapter 17: Anastasio Rojo VegaFrom Europe to Finisterre: A Caravan of Books to Galicia (1595)