The Book in the Renaissance

Contents: Part 1. Beginnings The book before print The invention of printing Renaissance encounters: the crisis of print Part 2. Consolidation The creation of a European book market Book town Wittenberg Luther's legacy First with the news Polite recreations At school Part 3. Conflict The literature of conflict The search for order Market forces Part 4. New worlds Science and exploration Healing Building a library Word and the street A note on sources : Mapping the geography of print Appendix : A summary of printed outputs throughout Europe, 1450-1600