Communities of Print: Books and Their Readers in Early Modern Europe

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Year of Publication
2022
Contributors Editor: Jessica G. Purdy
Editor: Rosamund Oates
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Number of Pages
254 pp.
Publisher
Brill
City
Leiden, Netherlands
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Chronological Period
ISBN
9789004448919
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Contents: 

Part 1. Networks of Books 

  • Selling Luther: Printing Counterfeits in Reformation Augsburg / Drew B. Thomas
  • Market Realities: Christopher Plantin's International Networks in an Ever-Changing World / Julianne Simpson
  • Far Off from the Well's Head: The Production and Circulation of Books in Early Modern Yorkshire / Rosamund Oates
  • For the Edification of the Common People: Humphrey Chetham's Parish Libraries / Jessica G. Purdy 

Part 2. Reading Together 

  • Friars and Friends : Books as Private or Shared Belongings in Early Modern Religious Communities / Flavia Bruni
  • Teachers of Christ's Church: Protestant Ministers as Readers of the Church Fathers in the Dutch Golden Age / Forrest C. Strickland
  • Print, Friendship and Voluntary Devotional Communities in North West England, c. 1660-c. 1730 / Michael A.L. Smith

Part 3. Different Readers 

  • Rural Readings of Sacred History: The Nuremberg Chronicle and Its Lancashire Readers / Nina Adamova
  • Reading Medieval Wales: David Powel's History of Cambria (1584) and Its Readers / Kathryn Hurlock
  • Poetic Failure, Communal Memory, and George Herbert's Outlandish Proverbs / Catherine Evans
  • Micrography in Later Stuart Britain: Curious Spectacles and Political Emblems / Tim Somers