The Paper Trade in Early Modern Europe

Practices, Materials, Networks
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-42399-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 89, 396 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

Reihe: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

This book attends to the most essential, lucrative, and overlooked business activity of early modern Europe: the trade of paper. Despite the well-known fact that paper was crucial to the success of printing and record-keeping alike, paper remains one of the least studied areas of early modern history. Organised into three sections – ‘Hotspots and Trade Routes’, ‘Usual Dealings’, and ‘Recycling Economies’ – the chapters in this collection shed light on the practices, materials, and networks of the paper trade. Altogether, the collection uncovers the actors involved in the networks of paper production, transportation, purchase, and reuse, between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries and across the central and peripheral papermaking regions of Europe.

Contributors: Renaud Adam, Daniel Bellingradt, Frank Birkenholz, Simon Burrows, Orietta Da Rold, Michael Falk, Anna Gialdini, Rachel Hendery, Silvia Hufnagel, Jean-Benoît Krumenacker, Katherine McDonough, Krisztina Rábai, Anna Reynolds, Benito Rial Costas, Tapio Salminen, Helen Smith, Jan Willem Veluwenkamp, Andreas Weber, and Megan Williams.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bellingradt, Daniel

Reynolds, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Verlagswesen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Daniel Bellingradt and Anna Reynolds

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

1 The Paper Trade in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction

Daniel Bellingradt

part 1: Hotspots and Trade Routes

2 Selling Paper in Early Modern Venice: Paper-retailers and the “Libri da carta bianca”

Anna Gialdini

3 ‘Unter dem Zeichen des Adlers’: Frankfurt as Hub of the Central European Paper Trade in the 16th Century

Megan K. Williams

4 The Paper Supply of a Printing House as a Mirror of the Paper Trade in the Early Modern Low Countries: The Case of Dirk Martens’ Workshop

Renaud Adam

5 Juan Tomás Fabario and the Paper Trade in Early Modern Spain or the Supply of Paper as a New Modality of Publishing

Benito Rial Costas

6 Paper Flows through the Danish Sound, 1634–1857

Jan Willem Veluwenkamp

7 Networks of Paper in Late Medieval England

Orietta Da Rold

part 2: Usual Dealings

8 Types and Sources of Paper in Late Medieval Finland: A Case Study of the Paper in Raseborg Castle Scriptorium, ca. 1390–1435

Tapio Salminen

9 Buying Paper for the Consulate: Insights into the Paper Trade of Lyon, 1450–1525

Jean-Benoît Krumenacker

10 The Usage and Acquisition of Paper in the Jagiellonian Courts, 1490–1507

Krisztina Rábai

11 The Paper Purchases of the Dutch East India Company’s Amsterdam Chamber in the Early Eighteenth Century

Frank Birkenholz

12 Stationers, Papetiers and the Supply Networks of a Swiss Publisher: The Sociéte Typographique de Neuchâtel and the Paper Trade 1769–1789

Simon Burrows, Michael Falk, Rachel Hendery, and Katherine McDonough

13 The Paper Trails of Guðbrandur Þorláksson: A Case Study of the Official and Private Paths Used for Purchasing Paper by the Sixteenth-Century Bishop of Hólar, Iceland

Silvia Hufnagel

Part 3: Recycling Economies

14 Material Sensibilities: Writing Paper and Chemistry in the Netherlands and Beyond, ca. 1800

Andreas Weber

15 “Worthy to Be Reserved”: Bookbindings and the Waste Paper Trade in Early Modern England and Scotland

Anna Reynolds

Part 4: Epilogue

16 Afterword

Helen Smith

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Bellingradt, Ph.D. (2010, Free University of Berlin) is Professor at the Institute for the Study of the Book at Erlangen-Nuremberg University, Germany. He is co-editor of the journal Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte and has published monographs, edited volumes and journal articles on a range of book historical topics.

Anna Reynolds, Ph.D. (2018, University of York) is Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. She is completing a monograph on early modern waste paper and has published articles and chapters on binding waste, women’s paper use, and material texts.