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Dangerous Books
Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy
Häftad, 2026
525 kr
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In the centuries between the invention of printing and the birth of copyright, even the most enlightened men and women believed in the need to monitor the circulation of books and repress ideas considered harmful to society. What distinguished the Roman censorship system from the control mechanisms …
French Book and the European Book World
Inbunden, 2007
2563 kr
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This work offers a series of linked studies of European print culture in the sixteenth century, focusing particularly on France and the regional, provincial experience of print. France, in the sixteenth century, was one of the great centres of the European publishing industry. But in the second …
Learning and the Market Place
Essays in the History of the Early Modern Book
Av Ian Maclean
Inbunden, 2009
3371 kr
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This collection of essays examines the operation of the market for learned books in Early Modern Europe through a series of case studies. After an overview of general market conditions, issues raised by the transmission of knowledge and the economics of the book trade are addressed. These include …
Reading the Scottish Enlightenment
Books and their Readers in Provincial Scotland, 1750-1820
Av Mark Towsey
Inbunden, 2010
2419 kr
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It has become commonplace in recent decades for scholars to identify in the books of the Scottish Enlightenment the intellectual origins of the modern world, but little attention has yet been paid to its impact on contemporary readers. Drawing on a range of innovatory methodologies associated with …
Pamphlets and Politics in the Dutch Republic
Av Femke Deen, Michel Reinders m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2600 kr
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Despite surging interest in early modern pamphlets, political historians of the Dutch Republic, arguably the frontrunner in pamphleteering, have yet to explore their nature and relevance in depth. Rather than treating pamphlets as reflecting public opinion, or dismissing them as political froth, …
Printed Book in Brittany, 1484-1600
Inbunden, 2011
2445 kr
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Printing in provincial France has not attracted the same interest as the main centres of print. Using archival as well as printed sources, this book provides a groundbreaking new understanding of the development of printing in the provinces. Though printing in Brittany started during the incunabula …
Acquisition of Books by Chetham's Library, 1655-1700
Av Matthew Yeo
Inbunden, 2011
2545 kr
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Chetham's Library, Manchester, was founded in 1655 by the bequest of the Manchester merchant, Humphrey Chetham (1580-1653). Drawing on recent debates about the methods of book history, this book is a detailed study of the way in which an early modern provincial library was created, stocked with …
Books in Early Modern Norway
Av Gina Dahl
Inbunden, 2011
2445 kr
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During recent decades much has been written about early modern book distribution, but until now Norway has been absent from the discussion. Drawing on book listings, this study seeks to fill this lacuna by exploring the market for books in early modern Norway. Its approach is multifaceted: …
Book Triumphant
Print in Transition in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Av Malcolm Walsby, Graeme Kemp
Inbunden, 2011
2600 kr
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Books printed in the fifteenth century have been the subject of much in-depth research. In contrast, the beginning of the sixteenth century has not attracted the same scholarly interest. This volume brings together studies that charter the development of printing and bookselling throughout Europe …
Shaping the Bible in the Reformation
Books, Scholars and Their Readers in the Sixteenth Century
Av Bruce Gordon, Matthew McLean
Inbunden, 2012
2439 kr
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This volume presents significant new research on several key aspects of the late mediaeval and early modern Bible. The essays in this collection deal with Bible scholarship and translation, illustration and production, Bible uses for lay devotion, and the role of Bibles in theological controversy. …
Reading the Roman Republic in Early Modern England
Inbunden, 2012
2512 kr
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Placing the reading of history in its cultural and educational context, and examining the processes by which ideas about ancient Rome circulated, this study provides the first assessment of the significance of Roman history, broadly conceived, in early modern England. The existing scholarship, …
Seeing Faith, Printing Pictures: Religious Identity during the English Reformation
Inbunden, 2013
2479 kr
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Scholarship on religious printed images during the English Reformation (1535-1603) has generally focused on a few illustrated works and has portrayed this period in England as a predominantly non-visual religious culture. The combination of iconoclasm and Calvinist doctrine have led to a …
Renaissance Cultural Crossroads
Translation, Print and Culture in Britain, 1473-1640
Av Sara K. Barker, Brenda M. Hosington
Inbunden, 2013
2715 kr
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In Renaissance Cultural Crossroads: Translation, Print and Culture in Britain, 1473-1640, twelve scholars assemble the latest interdisciplinary research in the fields of translation and print in Britain and appraise for the first time the connection between the two.The section Translation and Early …
Printed Pandemonium
Popular Print and Politics in the Netherlands 1650-72
Inbunden, 2013
2512 kr
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Printed Pandemonium is a fresh take on one of the most violent political upheavals in early modern history: the popular riots, the political murders and the brutal purifications of local governments in the Dutch Republic during the so-called ‘Year of Disaster’ 1672. Printed Pandemonium gives an …
Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance
Av Angela Nuovo
Inbunden, 2013
3304 kr
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This work offers the first English-language survey of the book industry in Renaissance Italy. Whereas traditional accounts of the book in the Renaissance celebrate authors and literary achievement, this study examines the nuts and bolts of a rapidly expanding trade that built on existing economic …
Pedlars and the Popular Press
Itinerant Distribution Networks in England and the Netherlands 1600-1850
Inbunden, 2013
2861 kr
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Itinerant salesmen, also called pedlars, street hawkers, hucksters and ballad singers are considered to be the most important distributors of popular printed matter in Europe between 1600 and 1850. A general assumption is that the pedlar travelling from town to countryside was strongly distinct …
Not Dead Things
The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Av Roeland Harms, Joad Raymond m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2719 kr
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Cheap print moved across Europe in surprising ways, crossing unusual distances by unusual routes and by unusual means. Pedlars, news, and cheap print defy the conventional categories and models of distribution: we need to think about their extraordinary diversity, and about the means by which their …
Publishing Policies and Family Strategies
The Fortunes of a Dutch Publishing House in the 18th and early 19th Centuries
Inbunden, 2013
4471 kr
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This study analyses the development of the Dutch publishers and booksellers firm Blussé in connection with the history of the Blussé family between 1745 and 1830. The book offers new insight in the organization of the book trade, the theory and practice of copyright, competition and cooperation …
Documenting the Early Modern Book World
Inventories and Catalogues in Manuscript and Print
Av Malcolm Walsby, Natasha Constantinidou
Inbunden, 2013
3452 kr
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Scholars of pre-modern literary culture rely almost exclusively on texts that have survived: mostly those that have reached the comparative safety of modern library collections. But the urge to record, catalogue and advertise the wealth of new publications in the age of print created an additional …
Books in the Catholic World during the Early Modern Period
Inbunden, 2013
2532 kr
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The Reformation is often alluded to as Gutenberg’s child. Could it then be said that the Counter-Reformation was his step-child? The close relationship between the Reformation, the printing press and books has received extensive, historiographical attention, which is clearly justified; however, the …
News Networks in Early Modern Europe
Av Joad Raymond
Inbunden, 2016
4835 kr
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News Networks in Early Modern Europe attempts to redraw the history of European news communication in the 16th and 17th centuries. News is defined partly by movement and circulation, yet histories of news have been written overwhelmingly within national contexts. This volume of essays explores the …
Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World
Inbunden, 2015
3277 kr
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Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World, edited by Richard Kirwan and Sophie Mullins, investigates an underexplored yet important facet of early modern book production. Bringing together 19 detailed case studies, this volume considers and reconstructs the characteristics of specialist …
Eighteenth-Century Periodicals as Agents of Change
Perspectives on Northern Enlightenment
Av Ellen Krefting, Aina Nøding m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
3063 kr
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Periodicals were an essential medium during eighteenth-century Enlightenment. The era’s growing number of newspapers and journals made possible a fast and vast dissemination of ideas and debates. Journals were a particularly important means of transmitting ideas, genres, texts, and pieces of …
Lost Books
Reconstructing the Print World of Pre-Industrial Europe
Av Flavia Bruni
Inbunden, 2016
4056 kr
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Questions of survival and loss bedevil the study of early printed books. Many early publications are not particularly rare, but others have disappeared altogether. This is clear not only from the improbably large number of books that survive in only one copy, but from many references in …
International Exchange in the Early Modern Book World
Av Matthew McLean, Sara K. Barker
Inbunden, 2016
3090 kr
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International Exchange in the Early Modern Book World presents new research on several aspects of the movement and exchange of books between countries, languages and confessions. It considers elements of the international book trade, the circulation and collection of texts, the practice of …
Denis Janot (fl. 1529-1544), Parisian Printer and Bookseller
A Bibliography
Inbunden, 2017
3404 kr
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Denis Janot is the prime example of a vernacular printer espousing the highest standards of French Renaissance printing, highly influential in the adoption of roman type to the printing of vernacular material, and a key figure in the development of book illustration.This bibliography, a …
Broadsheets
Single-sheet Publishing in the First Age of Print
Inbunden, 2017
3452 kr
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This volume offers an expansive survey of the role of single-sheet publishing in the European print industry during the first two centuries after the invention of printing. Drawing on new materials made available during the compilation of the Universal Short Title Catalogue, the twenty contributors …
Incunabula in Transit
People and Trade
Inbunden, 2018
3280 kr
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Almost half a million books printed in the fifteenth century survive in collections worldwide. In Incunabula in Transit Lotte Hellinga explores how and where they were first disseminated. Propelled by the novel need to market hundreds of books, early printers formed networks with colleagues, …
Before the Public Library
Reading, Community and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850
Av Mark Towsey, Kyle B. Roberts
Inbunden, 2017
2655 kr
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Before the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century. Essays by eighteen scholars from a range of disciplines seek to place, for the first time, community libraries …
Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe
A Contribution to the History of Printing and the Book Trade in Small European and Spanish Cities
Inbunden, 2012
2553 kr
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Despite the fact that, if only by number, small and peripheral cities played an important role in fifteenth and sixteenth-century European print culture, book history has mainly been dominated by monographs on individual big book centres. Through a number of specific case studies, which deploy a …
