Communities of Print

Books and their Readers in Early Modern Europe

Rosamund Oates, Jessica G. Purdy (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

254 Seiten

2021
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-44891-9 (ISBN)

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This book provides a new perspective on book history, with essays from leading scholars showing how communities of writers, publishers and readers across early modern Europe shaped the consumption of print.

This book provides a new perspective on book history by exploring communities created by the production and consumption of printed material. Essays by leading scholars explore the connections between writers, printers, booksellers and readers and examine changes and continuities across the period 1500 to 1800. As well as investigating the networks behind the production and dissemination of printed material, this collection examines the ways in which readers consumed, used and shared their printed texts. By focusing on the materiality of early modern texts, contributors to this volume offer new interpretations of the history of reading, the book trade, and the book as an object in early modern Europe.

Rosamund Oates, PhD (2004, University of York) is a Reader in Early Modern History at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has published widely on the English Reformation, with particular interest in preaching and reading history, including Moderate Radical: Tobie Matthew and the English Reformation (Oxford University Press, 2018). Jessica G. Purdy is a PhD candidate in Early Modern and Book History at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has a particular interest in the history of reading in the Tudor and Stuart periods.

List of Figures, Tables and Graphs

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Rosamund Oates and Jessica G. Purdy

Part 1: Networks of Books

1 Selling Luther: Printing Counterfeits in Reformation Augsburg

Drew B. Thomas

2 Market Realities: Christopher Plantin’s International Networks in an Ever-Changing World

Julianne Simpson

3 ‘Far Off from the Well’s Head’: The Production and Circulation of Books in Early Modern Yorkshire

Rosamund Oates

4 ‘For the Edification of the Common People’: Humphrey Chetham’s Parish Libraries

Jessica G. Purdy

Part 2: Reading Together

5 Friars and Friends: Books as Private or Shared Belongings in Early Modern Religious Communities

Flavia Bruni

6 Teachers of Christ’s Church: Protestant Ministers as Readers of the Church Fathers in the Dutch Golden Age

Forrest C. Strickland

7 Print, Friendship and Voluntary Devotional Communities in North West England, c. 1660–c. 1730

Michael A.L. Smith

Part 3: Different Readers

8 Rural Readings of Sacred History: The Nuremberg Chronicle and Its Lancashire Readers

Nina Adamova

9 Reading Medieval Wales: David Powel’s History of Cambria (1584) and Its Readers

Kathryn Hurlock

10 Poetic Failure, Communal Memory, and George Herbert’s Outlandish Proverbs

Catherine Evans

11 Micrography in Later Stuart Britain: Curious Spectacles and Political Emblems

Tim Somers

Bibliography

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Erscheinungsdatum	19.11.2021
Reihe/Serie	Library of the Written Word - the Handpress World ; 99
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	90-04-44891-8 / 9004448918
ISBN-13	978-90-04-44891-9 / 9789004448919
Zustand	Neuware