Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe Beyond Production, Circulation and Consumption

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Year of Publication
2017
Author
Editor: Paul Nelles
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Number of Pages
305 pp.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
City
Cham, Switzerland
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ISBN
9783319533650
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Contents: 

  • Introduction. Books and book history in motion : materiality, sociality and spatiality / Daniel Bellingradt and Jeroen Salman
  • Promoting the Counter-Reformation in provincial France : printing and bookselling in sixteenth-century Verdun / Malcolm Walsby
  • Conrad Gessner and the mobility of the book : Zurich, Frankfurt, Venice (1543) / Paul Nelles
  • Paper networks and the book industry : the business activities of an eighteenth-century paper dealer in Amsterdam / Daniel Bellingradt
  • Marketing a new legal code in fifteen-century Castile : a case study of the interactions between crown, law and printing / Benito Rial Costas
  • Links between newspapers and books : the case of an early "media tycoon" in late eighteenth-century central Europe / Andreas Golob
  • Publishers, editors and artists in the marketin of news in the Dutch Republic circa 1700 : the case of Jan Goeree and the Europische Mercurius / Joop W. Koopmans
  • The battle of medical books : publishing strategies and the medical market in the Dutch Republic (1650-1750) / Jeroen Salman
  • What killed Théodore Rilliet de Saussure? : censorship and the old regime in France, 1769-1789 / Mark Curran
  • Reading strategies in Scotland circa 1750-1820 / Vivienne S. Dunstan
  • Italian books and French medical libraries in the Renaissance / Shanti Graheli
  • Printed in Europe, consumed in Ottoman lands : European books in the Middle East, 1514-1842 / Geoffrey Roper
  • Epilogue: Materiality, sociality and spatiality and the need for book historical innovation. Matter, sociability and space : some ways of looking at the history of books / Joad Raymond