Format:
1 online resource (472 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789047428947
Series Statement:
Library of the Written Word - the Handpress World Ser. v.9
Content:
These essays on the learned book in Early Modern Europe investigate the transmission of knowledge and the operation of the book market from the point of view of its major participants: authors, editors, publishers, readers and bibliographers.
Content:
Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Market for Scholarly Books and Conceptions of Genre in Northern Europe, 1570-1630 -- 2. The Readership of Philosophical Fictions in France in the Sixteenth Century: The Bibliographical Evidence -- 3. Mediations of Zabarella in Northern Germany, 1586-1623 -- 4. The Diffusion of Learned Medicine in the Sixteenth Century through the Printed Book -- 5. The Reception of Medieval Practical Medicine in the Sixteenth Century: The Case of Arnau de Vilanova -- 6. Melanchthon at the Book Fairs, 1560-1601: Editors, Markets and Religious Strife -- 7. Cardano and his Publishers, 1534-1663 -- 8. André Wechel at Frankfurt, 1572-1581 -- 9. Murder, Debt and Retribution in the Italico-Franco-Spanish Book Trade: The Beraud-Michel-Ruiz Aff air, 1586-1591 -- 10. Competitors or Collaborators? Sebastian Gryphius and his Colleagues in Lyon, 1528-1556 -- 11. Alberico Gentili, his Publishers, and the Vagaries of the Book Trade between England and Germany, 1580-1614 -- 12. English Books on the Continent, 1570-1630 -- 13. 'Lusitani periti': Portuguese Medical Authors, National Identity and Bibliography in the Late Renaissance -- 14. L ouis Jacob de Saint-Charles (1608-1670) and the Development of Specialist Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004175501
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004175501
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=468253
Author information:
Maclean, Ian 1945-
