Print Culture at the Crossroads: The Book and Central Europe

Contents: Introduction: Towards a Literary Culture of Central Europe / Howard Louthan Part 1. Confessional Diversity and the Book: A Hungarian and Transylvanian Case Study -- Hearing the Word of God : The Aural and Symbolic Presence of Bibles in Early Hungarian-Speaking Calvinism / Graeme Murdock -- The Minister's Reading List : Religious Books in the Libraries of Transylvanian Lutheran Clergy / Maria Crăciun -- The Posthumous Reception of an Antitrinitarian Bishop at Home and Abroad : The Afterlife of György Enyedi's Explicationes / Borbála Lovas -- Books for Transylvanian Greek Catholics : Confessional Printing with Cross-Confessional Sourcing / Radu Nedici -- Liturgical Books after the Council of Trent : Implementation, Innovation and the Formation of Local Tradition in the Habsburg Lands / Marie-Elizabeth Ducreux Part 2. The Renaissance World of Central Europe -- Making Erasmus Speak Czech : Female Patronage and Production of the 1533 Czech Translation of the New Testament / Jan Volek -- Praise of Bohemian Folly : Context and Consequences of the Histories of Brother Jan Paleček / Martina Pranic -- Cum imaginibus, cum iconibus : Cataloguing Printed Images in Early Modern Libraries / Magdalena Herman -- Early Modern Polish Travellers Purchasing Books in Italy : Ownership Evidence as a Source of Information / Marianna Czapnik -- Facing the 'Turk' in the Book Culture of Central Europe / Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik Part 3. Martin Luther and the Book -- Reused Matrices, Adopted Iconographies and Misleading Images : Woodcuts on the Title Pages of Luther's Early Sermons on the Sacraments / Grażyna Jurkowlaniec -- The Lotter Printing Dynasty : Michael Lotter and Reformation Printing in Magdeburg / Drew B. Thomas -- Mistaken Authorship : A Study of the First Edition and Reprints of the Pamphlet Ein Mandat Jesu Christi / Jiří Černý -- The Dream of a Border-Crossing Bible : A Study of Ungnad, Trubar, Vergerio, Konzul and Their Co-Workers / Luka Ilić and Marija Wakounig -- The Reformation, the Book, and the Clergy : The Place of Holy Scripture in the Churches of the Duchy of Pomerania and Clerical Identity in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Maciej Ptaszyński Part 4. Local Communities and the Book -- Printing and Post-Tridentine Catholicism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth / Magdalena Komorowska -- Buying Bound Books in Sixteenth-Century Cracow : Using Inventories and Bindings to Uncover a Thriving Retail Market / Katarzyna Płaszczyńska-Herman -- Publishing Books in Early Modern Jewish Prague / Olga Sixtová -- Printing of Learned Literature in Hebrew, 1510-1630 : Toward a New Understanding of Early Modern Jewish Practices of Reading / Pavel Sládek -- The Standard and the Exceptional in a Provincial Print Shop : The Case of Early Modern Oels / Maria Piasecka Part 5. Print Culture in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe -- Trusting Facts, Trusting People : Approbata, Endorsements and Authoritative Knowledge in the Early Modern Jewish Book Trade / Joshua Teplitsky -- The (Swéerts-)Sporcks and Their Subjects : Local and Transcultural Printing and Distribution of Heterodox Books in Eighteenth-Century Bohemia / Veronika Čapská -- The Circulation of Jewish Esoteric Knowledge in Manuscript and Print : The Case of Early Modern East-Central Europe / Agata Paluch -- "That Little Golden Book" : Eastern Slavic Translations of the Imitation of Christ, 1628-1799 / Liudmyla Sharipova Epilogue: The Hand Press and Political Dissent : Forbidden Print in Central Europe, 1800-1848 / James M. Brophy