The book world of early modern Europe

Abstract

"Anyone who has studied the history of the Reformation, the book and communication will have come across or been influenced by Andrew Pettegree's contributions to these fields. The essays in this Festschrift have been commissioned to cover the broad scope of Pettegree's areas of interest and expertise, and to reflect and build upon them. The pieces, written by forty-three scholars based at over thirty institutions, are organised around nine key themes, ranging from the intersections of religion and print to the history of book collecting, the periodical press and pioneering book historical research methodologies. This second volume contains twenty-seven essays. Together with the first volume, 'Reformation, Religious Culture and Print in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honour of Andrew Pettegree, Volume 1', they offer a comprehensive survey of the state of current scholarship on religion, printing and media change in early modern Europe."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Andrew Pettegree, a historian of the Reformation and the book / Malcolm Walsby -- Andrew Pettegree and Brill: A publishing history / Arjan van Dijk -- The arts of printing and publishing: 'Drawing on a pigmy's frock over the shoulders of a giant:' Visualizing dedicatory networks in French vernacular books (1501-1600) / Graeme J. Kemp -- A crowded field in Luther's Wittenberg: Collaboration and sub-contracting in the Reformation book trade / Drew B. Thomas -- 'Doing men's work:' Katharina Rebart, her life and her activities in context / Saskia Limbach -- Vanished components: Evidence for the partial survival of Tabula Cebetis editions / Justyna Kilianczyk-Zieba -- Maps and the market: The Amsterdam book trade and the rise of hte pocket atlas / Michiel van Groesen -- Jan van Meerbeeck and the book business in Brussels in the first third of the seventeenth century / Renaud Adam -- International connections and circulation in the book world: The pilgrim, the city and the book: The role of the mobility of pilgrims in book circulation in Renaissance Venice / Sandra Toffolo -- Diplomacy, material culture and the book world in the account of the French special envoys to Hamburg, 1638 / Shanti Graheli -- Admiration, anger and envy: Descriptions of the Dutch Golden Age in English print / Jacob Baxter -- Exile, expansion and commerce: Dutch printing outside the Low Countries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centures / Arthur der Weduwen -- Going once, going twice, sold! Used books at auctions in Leiden, the Hague, and London, 1689-90 / Hanna de Lange -- Education and the book: Abacus manuals, schools and urban readers in early modern Venice and Milan / Angela Nuovo -- Advertising educational opportunities: L'ordre et maniere d'enseigner, Geneva, 1538 / Karin Maag -- Influences, assimilation, adaptations: Observations on Greek grammars printed in France in the sixteenth century / Natasha Constantinidou -- From schoolbook to children's literature: The evolution of a Dutch book market for youngsters in the long eighteenth century / Joke Spaans -- Libraries and book collecting: Politics, community and identity in the formation of the Dutch church library in London, 1550-c.1650 / Michael S. Sprinter -- 'Boecken ende anders:' The book collection of the seventeenth-century Leiden student Leonard van Sorgen (c.1620-1644) / Paul Hoftijzer -- The bibliotheca publica of Leiden University, 1585-1741: A portrait of the early modern public research library / Earle Havens -- Locating Books of Hours in eighteenth-century private libraries: Auction catalogues as generators of Enlightenment value(s) / Alicia C. Montoya -- Developments in the periodical press: The first advertisements in Italian newspapers (1683-1700) / Nina Lamal -- Expansion and restraint in the Dutch newspaper market, 1700-1795 / Joop W. Koopmans -- Reprints of the Gazette van Antwerpen in the Dutch Republic, 1706-1806 / Steven Van Impe -- Research methodologies and media transformations: Bonaventura's dream: The USTC, typographical analysis and the future of book historical research / Paul Dijstelberge -- Ornamento Europe: Towards an atlas of the visual geography of the Renaissance book / Alexander S. Wilkinson -- The age of Aquarius and magic fallibility: Scottish legal resource in the '60s and '70s and hte advent of 'modern technology' / John A. Sibbald -- Bibliography of Andrew Pettegree's publications.