Format:
1 Online-Ressource (442 pages)
ISBN:
9783110430271
Series Statement:
Schriftmedien - Kommunikations- und Buchwissenschaftliche Perspektiven Ser Band 4
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part A: Beginnings and Provenances -- Sisters, or Mother and Daughter? The Relationship between Printerâs Marks and Emblems during the First Hundred Years -- Ekphrasis and Printerâs Signets -- Beastly Devices: Early Printerâs Marks and Their Medieval Origins -- From Nameplate to Emblem. The Evolution of the Printerâs Device in the Southern Low Countries up to 1600 -- Part B: Regions & Places -- Heraldic and Symbolic Printerâs Devices of Greek Printers in Italy (Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries) -- Jewish Printersâ Marks from Poland (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries) -- Fama Typographica. In Search of the Emblem Form of Printerâs Devices. The Iconography and Emblem Form of Printerâs Devices in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Poland -- Pallas Nostra Salus. Early Modern Printerâs Marks in Leiden as Expressions of Professional and Personal Identity -- Early Modern Munich Printerâs Marks (and Related Issues) -- The Printerâs Mark in Early Modern Sweden -- Icelandâs Lack of Printerâs Devices: Filling a Functional and Spatial Void in Printed Books during the Sixteenth Century -- Part C: Concepts, Historical and Systematic -- The Truth of Printerâs Marks: Andrea Alciato on âAldoâs Anchorâ, âFrobenâs Doveâ and âCalvoâs Elephantâ. A Closer Look at Alciatoâs Concept of the Printerâs Mark -- The Legal Significance and Humanist Ethos of Printersâ Insignia -- The Transition of the Printerâs Device from a Sign of Identification to a Symbol of Aspirations and Beliefs -- Mottos in Printersâ Devices â Thoughts about the Hungarian Usage -- European Printersâ and Publishersâ Marks in the Eighteenth Century. The Three Câs: Conformity, Continuity and Change -- In Place of an Afterword: Notes on Ordering the Corpus of the Early Modern Printerâs Mark
Content:
Part D: Research Bibliography and Index -- Research Bibliography: The Early Modern Printerâs Mark in Its Cultural Contexts -- Contributors -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110439199
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Typographorum Emblemata Berlin : De Gruyter Saur, 2018 ISBN 3110439190
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110439199
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110430288
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110430288
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
General works
Keywords:
Europa
;
Druckermarke
;
Emblem
;
Geschichte 1460-1800
;
Druckermarke
;
Geschichte 1450-1800
;
Buchdruck
;
Emblem
;
Drucker
;
Devise
DOI:
10.1515/9783110430271
Author information:
Wolkenhauer, Anja 1967-
