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A Maturing Market
The Iberian Book World in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century
Series: - Library of the Written Word, Volume: 59
- Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 59
Within just a generation or two of its arrival, print had become a ubiquitous and spirited part of Spain and Portugalâs urban cultures. It serviced an ever-expanding reading public, as well as many and varied practical quotidian needs. Its impact on society was multi-dimensional and complex, and its social reach far broader than the civic or ecclesiastical elites were ever to be entirely comfortable with.
This cross-disciplinary volume of essays focuses on the maturing marketplace for print in the first half of the seventeenth century, shedding new light on some important transformations, with authors and publishers seizing opportunities available to them â negotiating the regulatory efforts of the censors, and scrambling to reconfigure their relationship with their readers.
This cross-disciplinary volume of essays focuses on the maturing marketplace for print in the first half of the seventeenth century, shedding new light on some important transformations, with authors and publishers seizing opportunities available to them â negotiating the regulatory efforts of the censors, and scrambling to reconfigure their relationship with their readers.
Alexander S. Wilkinson, Ph.D. (2002), University of St Andrews, is Professor of Early Modern History at University College Dublin. He is Director of the UCD Centre for the History of the Media and has published widely on book history.
Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo, Ph.D. (2011), University of Santiago de Compostela, is a Mellon Research Fellow University College Dublin where she manages Iberian Books. She has published on Golden-Age Spanish theatre, especially on Calderón, as well as on the Spanish book trade.
Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo, Ph.D. (2011), University of Santiago de Compostela, is a Mellon Research Fellow University College Dublin where she manages Iberian Books. She has published on Golden-Age Spanish theatre, especially on Calderón, as well as on the Spanish book trade.
âa welcome addition to studies on the history of printing and the book in early modern Iberia and on the impact of the press in its societies.â
Javier Lorenzo, East Carolina University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 1 (spring 2019), pp. 297-298.
Javier Lorenzo, East Carolina University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 1 (spring 2019), pp. 297-298.
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Alexander S. Wilkinson
Part 1
Surveys of the Book Trade
1 A Maturing Market: The Iberian Book World in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century
Alexander S. Wilkinson
2 Printing in Antwerp in the Early Seventeenth Century and Its Connections with the Iberian World
César Manrique Figueroa
3 The Importation of Books into New Spain During the Seventeenth Century
Idalia GarcÃa
4 Women and the Iberian Book Trade, 1472â1650
Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo
Part 2
Addressing the Reader in Golden-Age Spain
5 The Book-Reader Relationship in Golden-Age Spain: Reading Practices and the Publishing Industry in Don Quixote
Sarah Malfatti
6 âReasons of State for Any Authorâ: Common Sense, Translation, and the International Republic of Letters
José MarÃa Pérez Fernández
7 Writing Literature for Publication, 1605â1637
Esther Villegas de la Torre
Part 3
The Stage in Print
8 Printed Plays in Early Modern Spain
Don Cruickshank
9 Cervantesâs Ocho comedias: From the Pen to the Print-Shop
John OâNeill
10 Printing Licenses and the Trade in Fiction in Spain in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century
Manuel Calderón Calderón
Part 4
Market Specialisms: Chivalric Literature, Medicine and the News
11 Printing Books of Chivalry in Portugal at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century
Aurelio Vargas DÃaz-Toledo
12 Medical Publishing in Portugal in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century: A Good Business?
Hervé Baudry
13 The Golden Age of the Single Event Printed Newsletter: Relaciones de sucesos, 1601â1650
Henry Ettinghausen
14 âThings Worthy of Being Knownâ: The Reception and Consumption of the Press in Catalonia During the First Half of the Seventeenth
Century
Ricard Expósito Amagat
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Alexander S. Wilkinson
Part 1
Surveys of the Book Trade
1 A Maturing Market: The Iberian Book World in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century
Alexander S. Wilkinson
2 Printing in Antwerp in the Early Seventeenth Century and Its Connections with the Iberian World
César Manrique Figueroa
3 The Importation of Books into New Spain During the Seventeenth Century
Idalia GarcÃa
4 Women and the Iberian Book Trade, 1472â1650
Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo
Part 2
Addressing the Reader in Golden-Age Spain
5 The Book-Reader Relationship in Golden-Age Spain: Reading Practices and the Publishing Industry in Don Quixote
Sarah Malfatti
6 âReasons of State for Any Authorâ: Common Sense, Translation, and the International Republic of Letters
José MarÃa Pérez Fernández
7 Writing Literature for Publication, 1605â1637
Esther Villegas de la Torre
Part 3
The Stage in Print
8 Printed Plays in Early Modern Spain
Don Cruickshank
9 Cervantesâs Ocho comedias: From the Pen to the Print-Shop
John OâNeill
10 Printing Licenses and the Trade in Fiction in Spain in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century
Manuel Calderón Calderón
Part 4
Market Specialisms: Chivalric Literature, Medicine and the News
11 Printing Books of Chivalry in Portugal at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century
Aurelio Vargas DÃaz-Toledo
12 Medical Publishing in Portugal in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century: A Good Business?
Hervé Baudry
13 The Golden Age of the Single Event Printed Newsletter: Relaciones de sucesos, 1601â1650
Henry Ettinghausen
14 âThings Worthy of Being Knownâ: The Reception and Consumption of the Press in Catalonia During the First Half of the Seventeenth
Century
Ricard Expósito Amagat
Index
All interested in Golden-Age Spain and Portugal or those with a comparative interest in the early-modern European book trade.