The French Book and the European Book World

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-16187-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 798 g

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

This work offers a series of linked studies of European print culture in the sixteenth century, focusing particularly on France and the regional, provincial experience of print. France, in the sixteenth century, was one of the great centres of the European publishing industry. But in the second half of the century the established dominance of Paris and Lyon was increasingly challenged by other new printing centres, stimulated in part by the religious and political crisis of the French Wars of Religion. Drawing on the data collected by the St Andrews French book project, the author reconstructs the enigmatic history of a number of previously unstudied printers. The focus throughout is on popular print, and the growth of mass market for news, entertainment and religious instruction.

Customers interested in this title may also be interested in French Vernacular Books, edited by Andrew Pettegree, Malcolm Walsby and Alexander Wilkinson.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pettegree, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Verlagswesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
List of Figures and Illustrations
Places of Original Publication

1. Rare Books and Revolutionaries: The French Bibliothèques Municipales

PART I. PAMPHLETS AND THEIR READERS
2. A Provincial News Community in Sixteenth-Century France
3. Protestantism, Publication and the French Wars of Religion. The Case of Caen
4. Protestant Printing during the French Wars of Religion. The Lyon Press of Jean Saugrain
5. Geneva Print and the Coming of the French Wars of Religion

PART II. DISSEMINATION
6. France and the Netherlands. The Interlocking of Two Religious Cultures in Print during the Era of the Religious Wars
7. French Books at the Frankfurt Fair
8. Emden as a Centre of the Sixteenth-Century Book Trade. A Catalogue of the Bookseller Gaspar Staphorst
9. Translation and the Migration of Text

PART III. PERSPECTIVES
10. The Reformation and the Book: A Reconsideration
11. The Growth of the Provincial Press in 16th-Century Europe
12. The Reception of Calvinism in Britain
13. Printing and the Reformation: The English Exception

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Pettegree, M.A. D. Phil. (Oxford, 1984), is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of a number of books on the European Reformation and aspects of the European book world.