Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World
Editorial Board
Andrew Pettegree, University of St Andrews (Editor-in-Chief)
Ann Blair, Harvard University
Falk Eisermann, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Ian Maclean, All Souls College, Oxford
Angela Nuovo, University of Udine
Michael F. Suarez, S.J., University of Virginia
Mark Towsey, University of Liverpool
Malcolm Walsby, University of Rennes II
Ann Blair, Harvard University
Falk Eisermann, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Ian Maclean, All Souls College, Oxford
Angela Nuovo, University of Udine
Michael F. Suarez, S.J., University of Virginia
Mark Towsey, University of Liverpool
Malcolm Walsby, University of Rennes II
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This pioneering study approaches the new printed-book industry in Renaissance Italy from the perspective of its publishers and booksellers, analyzing their responses to the challenges of production and their creative approaches to the distribution and sale of their merchandise.
€105.00$146.00
This book offers a unique analysis of visual religion in Reformation England as seen in its religious printed images. Challenging traditional notions of an iconoclastic Reformation, it offers a thorough analysis of the widespread body of printed images and the ways the images gave shape to the ...
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This volume seeks to enhance our understanding of printing and the book trade in small and peripheral European cities in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries through a number of specific case studies.
€105.00$144.00
Printed Pandemonium is a fresh take on one of the most violent political upheavals in early modern history: the riots, political murders and violent purifications of local governments in the Dutch Republic during the so-called ‘Year of Disaster’ 1672.
€105.00$146.00
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.
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The importance of 'Renaissance Cultural Crossroads' lies in its appreciation and promotion of the multi-faceted reach of translation in Britain from the arrival of printing until the outbreak of the civil war, highlighting the impressive number and wide variety of works translated.
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This volume collects significant new scholarship on the late mediaeval and early modern Bible, engaging with the work of theologians, the devotional needs of the laity and the shape their concerns gave to the most important book of the age.
€105.00$143.00
The Reformation transformed Christian Hebraism from the pursuit of a few into an academic discipline. This book explains that transformation by focusing on how authors, printers, booksellers, and censors created a public discussion of Hebrew and Jewish texts.
€102.00$132.00
Drawing on various types of book listing, this study explores the market for books in early modern Norway. Book ownership by different elements of Norwegian society is addressed alongside changes in patterns of book distribution.
€102.00$132.00
Drawing on recent debates about the methods of book history, this book explores in detail the foundation and development of Chetham's Library, in Manchester, from its foundation in 1655 until the end of the seventeenth century.
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