Bellingradt / Nelles / Salman Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe

Beyond Production, Circulation and Consumption
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-53366-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 305 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book presents and explores a challenging new approach in book history. It offers a coherent volume of thirteen chapters in the field of early modern book history covering a wide range of topics and it is written by renowned scholars in the field. The rationale and content of this volume will revitalize the theoretical and methodological debate in book history. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the field of early modern book history as well as in a range of other disciplines. It offers book historians an innovative methodological approach on the life cycle of books in and outside Europe. It is also highly relevant for social-economic and cultural historians because of the focus on the commercial, legal, spatial, material and social aspects of book culture. Scholars that are interested in the history of science, ideas and news will find several chapters dedicated to the production, circulation and consumption of knowledge and news media.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bellingradt, Daniel

Nelles, Paul

Salman, Jeroen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction - Books and Book History in Motion: Materiality, Sociality and Spaciality; Daniel Bellingradt and Jeroen Salman.- PART I: BEYOND PRODUCTION.- Chapter 2. Promoting the Counter-Reformation in Provincial France; Malcolm Walsby.- Chapter 3. Conrad Gessner and the Mobility of the Book; Paul Nelles.- Chapter 4. Paper Networks and the Book Industry; Daniel Bellingradt.- Chapter 5. Marketing a New Legal Code in Fifteenth Century Castile; Benito Rial Costas.- PART II: BEYOND CIRCULATION.- Chapter 6. Links between Newspapers and Books; Andreas Golob.- Chapter 7. Publishers, Editors, and Artists in the Marketing of News in the Dutch Republic circa 1700;  Joop W. Koopmans.- Chapter 8. The Battle of Medical Books;  Jeroen Salman.- Chapter 9. What killed Théodore Rilliet de Saussure?; Mark Curran.- PART III: BEYOND CONSUMPTION.- Chapter 10. Reading Strategies inScotland circa 1750–1820; Vivienne Dunstan.- Chapter 11. Italian Books and French Medical Libraries in the Renaissance; Shanti Graheli.- Chapter 12. Printed in Europe, consumed in Ottoman lands; Geoffrey Roper.- Epilogue: Matter, Sociability and Space; Joad Raymond.

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Bellingradt is Professor of Book Studies at Erlangen-Nuremberg University, Germany, and is co-editor of the German Yearbook for the History of Communications.Paul Nelles is Associate Professor of Early Modern European History at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and has recently published Cosas y Cartas: Scribal Production and Material Pathways in Jesuit Global Communications (1547-1573) (2015).Jeroen Salman is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, Netherlands, and is co-editor of a Dutch book historical series (BGNB).