Print Culture at the Crossroads

The Book and Central Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-44892-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 94, 554 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 1034 g

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

Print Culture at the Crossroads investigates how the spread of printing shaped a distinctive literary culture in Central Europe during the early modern period. Moving beyond the boundaries of the nation state, twenty-five scholars from over a dozen countries examine the role of the press in a region characterised by its many cultures, languages, religions, and alphabets. Antitrinitarians, Roman and Greek Catholics, Calvinists, Jews, Lutherans, and Orthodox Christians used the press to preserve and support their communities. By examining printing and patronage networks, catalogues, inventories, woodblocks, bindings, and ownership marks, this volume reveals a complicated web of connections linking printers and scholars, Jews and Christians, across Central Europe and beyond.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dillenburg, Elizabeth

Louthan, Howard

Thomas, Drew B

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Verlagswesen
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Buchgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction: Towards a Literary Culture of Central Europe

Howard Louthan

Part 1: Confessional Diversity and the Book: A Hungarian and Transylvanian Case Study

1 Hearing the Word of God

The Aural and Symbolic Presence of Bibles in Early Hungarian-Speaking Calvinism

Graeme Murdock

2 The Minister’s Reading List

Religious Books in the Libraries of Transylvanian Lutheran Clergy

Maria Craciun

3 The Posthumous Reception of an Antitrinitarian Bishop at Home and Abroad

The Afterlife of György Enyedi’s Explicationes

Borbála Lovas

4 Books for Transylvanian Greek Catholics

Confessional Printing with Cross-Confessional Sourcing

Radu Nedici

5 Liturgical Books after the Council of Trent

Implementation, Innovation and the Formation of Local Tradition in the Habsburg Lands

Marie-Elizabeth Ducreux

Part 2: The Renaissance World of Central Europe

6 Making Erasmus Speak Czech

Female Patronage and Production of the 1533 Czech Translation of the New Testament

Jan Volek

7 Praise of Bohemian Folly

Context and Consequences of the Histories of Brother Jan Palecek

Martina Pranic

8 Cum imaginibus, cum iconibus

Cataloguing Printed Images in Early Modern Libraries

Magdalena Herman

9 Early Modern Polish Travellers Purchasing Books in Italy

Ownership Evidence as a Source of Information

Marianna Czapnik

10 Facing the ‘Turk’ in the Book Culture of Central Europe

Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik

Part 3: Martin Luther and the Book

11 Reused Matrices, Adopted Iconographies and Misleading Images

Woodcuts on the Title Pages of Luther’s Early Sermons on the Sacraments

Grazyna Jurkowlaniec

12 The Lotter Printing Dynasty

Michael Lotter and Reformation Printing in Magdeburg

Drew B. Thomas

13 Mistaken Authorship

A Study of the First Edition and Reprints of the Pamphlet Ein Mandat Jesu Christi

Jirí Cerný

14 The Dream of a Border-Crossing Bible

A Study of Ungnad, Trubar, Vergerio, Konzul and Their Co-Workers

Luka Ilic and Marija Wakounig

15 The Reformation, the Book, and the Clergy

The Place of Holy Scripture in the Churches of the Duchy of Pomerania and Clerical Identity in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Maciej Ptaszynski

Part 4: Local Communities and the Book

16 Printing and Post-Tridentine Catholicism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Magdalena Komorowska

17 Buying Bound Books in Sixteenth-Century Cracow

Using Inventories and Bindings to Uncover a Thriving Retail Market

Katarzyna Plaszczynska-Herman

18 Publishing Books in Early Modern Jewish Prague

Olga Sixtová

19 Printing of Learned Literature in Hebrew, 1510–1630

Toward a New Understanding of Early Modern Jewish Practices of Reading

Pavel Sládek

20 The Standard and the Exceptional in a Provincial Print Shop

The Case of Early Modern Oels

Maria Piasecka

Part 5: Print Culture in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe

21 Trusting Facts, Trusting People

Approbata, Endorsements and Authoritative Knowledge in the Early Modern Jewish Book Trade

Joshua Teplitsky

22 The (Swéerts-)Sporcks and Their Subjects

Local and Transcultural Printing and Distribution of Heterodox Books in Eighteenth-Century Bohemia

Veronika Capská

23 The Circulation of Jewish Esoteric Knowledge in Manuscript and Print

The Case of Early Modern East-Central Europe

Agata Paluch

24 “That Little Golden Book”

Eastern Slavic Translations of the Imitation of Christ, 1628–1799

Liudmyla Sharipova

Epilogue: The Hand Press and Political Dissent

Forbidden Print in Central Europe, 1800–1848

James M. Brophy

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Dillenburg, Ph.D. (2019, University of Minnesota) is an assistant professor of history at the Ohio State University at Newark.

Howard Louthan, Ph.D. (1994, Princeton University), is director of the Center for Austrian Studies and professor of history at the University of Minnesota. His books include The Quest for Compromise and Converting Bohemia.

Drew B. Thomas, Ph.D. (2018, University of St Andrews), is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin. He is the author of The Industry of Evangelism: Printing for the Reformation in Martin Luther’s Wittenberg (Brill, 2021).