Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (c. 1450–1600)

Anna Dlabačová, Ph.D. (2014), is Associate Professor at Leiden University and PI of the project ‘Pages of Prayer: The Ecosystem of Vernacular Prayer Books in the Late Medieval Low Countries, c. 1380-1550’ (ERC Starting Grant).Andrea van Leerdam, Ph.D., is a book historian at Utrecht University with a particular interest in the materiality of early printed books, early modern reading practices, and visual culture. She has previously worked as a humanities communications advisor.John J. Thompson is Professor emeritus at Queen’s University, Belfast and honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. He has written widely on late medieval and Early Modern English book history with a particular focus on significant transitional episodes in pre and post Reformation English textual cultures.

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• AcknowledgmentsList of Figures and TablesNotes on the EditorsNotes on the ContributorsIntroductionAnna Dlabačová and Andrea van LeerdamPart 1: Real and Imagined Readers1 Reading Magic in Early Modern IberiaHeather Bamford2 Vernacular Readers of Medicine: Imagined Audiences and Material Traces of Reading in Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Distillation BooksTillmann Taape3 The Hortulus animae – An Archive of Medieval Prayer Book LiteratureStefan Matter4 Printers’ Strategies and Readers’ Responses: Vernacular Editions of the Deventer Printers Richard Pafraet and Jacob van BredaSuzan Folkerts5 Personalizing Universal History: Noblemen’s Responses to the Polish-Language Chronicle of the Whole World by Marcin BielskiKarolina MroziewiczPart 2: Mobility of Texts and Images6 The Schoolroom in Early English IllustrationMartha W. Driver7 Moving Pictures: The Art and Craft of Dying Well in the Woodcuts of Wynkyn de WordeAlexa Sand8 Catering to Different Tastes: Western-European Romance in the Earliest Decades of PrintingElisabeth de BruijnPart 3: Intermediality9 Moveable Types of Merry Monsters: Joyful Literature on Paper and on the WallsKatell Lavéant10 Pour ce fault morir en vivant: Medieval Humanist Readings of Text and Images in Pierre Michault’s Danse aux aveuglesMargriet Hoogvliet11 Meditating the Unbearable in a Fifteenth-Century Netherlandish Manuscript Prayerbook with Printed ImagesWalter S. MelionAfterword: Making an End of the Beginnings of Early Printing in Western EuropeJohn J. ThompsonIndex Nominum