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Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500â1800)
Series: - Library of the Written Word, Volume: 92
- Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 92
Print, in the early modern period, could make or break power. This volume addresses one of the most urgent and topical questions in early modern history: how did European authorities use a new medium with such tremendous potential? The eighteen contributors develop new perspectives on the relationship between the rise of print and the changing relationships between subjects and rulers by analysing printâs role in early modern bureaucracy, the techniques of printed propaganda, genres, and strategies of state communication. While print is often still thought of as an emancipating and disruptive force of change in early modern societies, the resulting picture shows how instrumental print was in strengthening existing power structures.
Contributors: Renaud Adam, Martin Christ, Jamie Cumby, Arthur der Weduwen, Nora Epstein, Andreas Golob, Helmer Helmers, Jan Hillgärtner, Rindert Jagersma, Justyna KiliaÅczyk-ZiÄba, Nina Lamal, Margaret Meserve, Rachel Midura, Gautier Mingous, Ernesto E. Oyarbide MaganÌa, Caren Reimann, Chelsea Reutchke, Celyn David Richards, Paolo Sachet, Forrest Strickland, and Ramon Voges.
Contributors: Renaud Adam, Martin Christ, Jamie Cumby, Arthur der Weduwen, Nora Epstein, Andreas Golob, Helmer Helmers, Jan Hillgärtner, Rindert Jagersma, Justyna KiliaÅczyk-ZiÄba, Nina Lamal, Margaret Meserve, Rachel Midura, Gautier Mingous, Ernesto E. Oyarbide MaganÌa, Caren Reimann, Chelsea Reutchke, Celyn David Richards, Paolo Sachet, Forrest Strickland, and Ramon Voges.
Nina Lamal, PhD (2014, KU Leuven and University of St Andrews) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Humanities Cluster at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
Jamie Cumby, PhD (2018, University of St Andrews) is Assistant Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, MO.
Helmer J. Helmers, PhD (2011, Leiden University) is senior researcher in Dutch history at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He is the author of The Royalist Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Jamie Cumby, PhD (2018, University of St Andrews) is Assistant Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, MO.
Helmer J. Helmers, PhD (2011, Leiden University) is senior researcher in Dutch history at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He is the author of The Royalist Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Printing Press as an Agent of Power
âHelmer Helmers, Nina Lamal and Jamie Cumby
1 Policing in Print: Social Control in Spanish and Borromean Milan (1535â1584)
âRachel Midura
2 On Printing and Decision-Making: The Management of Information by the City Powers of Lyon (ca. 1550âca. 1580)
âGautier Mingous
3 Printing for Central Authorities in the Early Modern Low Countries (15thâ17th Centuries)
âRenaud Adam
4 Rural Officials Discover the Printing Press in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy
âAndreas Golob
5 Printing for the Reformation: The Canonical Documents of the Edwardian Church of England, 1547â1553
âCelyn Richards
6 Newspapers and Authorities in Seventeenth-Century Germany
âJan Hillgärtner
7 The Politics of Print in the Dutch Golden Age: The Ommelander Troubles (c. 1630â1680)
âArthur der Weduwen
8 The Rise of the Stampatore Camerale: Printers and Power in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome
âPaolo Sachet
9 State and Church Sponsored Printing by Jan Januszowski and His Drukarnia Åazarzowa (Officina Lazari) in Krakow
âJustyna KiliaÅczyk-ZiÄba
10 Ferdinando deâ Medici and the Typographia Medicea
âCaren Reimann
11 Royal Patronage of Illicit Print: Catherine of Braganza and Catholic Books in Late Seventeenth-Century London
âChelsea Reutcke
12 The Papacy, Power, and Print: The Publication of Papal Decrees in the First Fifty Years of Printing
âMargaret Meserve
13 Pictures and Power: The Visual Prints of Frans Hogenberg
âRamon Voges
14 Collecting âToute lâAngleterreâ: English Books, Soft Power and Spanish Diplomacy at the Casa del Sol (1613â1622)
âErnesto Oyarbide Magaña
15 Prohibition as Propaganda Technique: The Case of the Pamphlet La couronne usurpée et le prince supposé (1688)
âRindert Jagersma
16 Illustrating Authority: The Creation and Reception of an English Protestant Iconography
âNora Epstein
17 Between Ego Documents and Anti-Catholic Propaganda: Printed Revocation Sermons in Seventeenth-Century Lutheran Germany
âMartin Christ
18 Learned Servants: Dutch Ministers, Their Books and the Struggle for a Reformed Republic in the Dutch Golden Age
âForrest C. Strickland
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Printing Press as an Agent of Power
âHelmer Helmers, Nina Lamal and Jamie Cumby
Part 1: Governing through Print
1 Policing in Print: Social Control in Spanish and Borromean Milan (1535â1584)
âRachel Midura
2 On Printing and Decision-Making: The Management of Information by the City Powers of Lyon (ca. 1550âca. 1580)
âGautier Mingous
3 Printing for Central Authorities in the Early Modern Low Countries (15thâ17th Centuries)
âRenaud Adam
4 Rural Officials Discover the Printing Press in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy
âAndreas Golob
Part 2: Printing for Government
5 Printing for the Reformation: The Canonical Documents of the Edwardian Church of England, 1547â1553
âCelyn Richards
6 Newspapers and Authorities in Seventeenth-Century Germany
âJan Hillgärtner
7 The Politics of Print in the Dutch Golden Age: The Ommelander Troubles (c. 1630â1680)
âArthur der Weduwen
Part 3: Patronage and Prestige
8 The Rise of the Stampatore Camerale: Printers and Power in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome
âPaolo Sachet
9 State and Church Sponsored Printing by Jan Januszowski and His Drukarnia Åazarzowa (Officina Lazari) in Krakow
âJustyna KiliaÅczyk-ZiÄba
10 Ferdinando deâ Medici and the Typographia Medicea
âCaren Reimann
11 Royal Patronage of Illicit Print: Catherine of Braganza and Catholic Books in Late Seventeenth-Century London
âChelsea Reutcke
Part 4: Power of Persuasion
12 The Papacy, Power, and Print: The Publication of Papal Decrees in the First Fifty Years of Printing
âMargaret Meserve
13 Pictures and Power: The Visual Prints of Frans Hogenberg
âRamon Voges
14 Collecting âToute lâAngleterreâ: English Books, Soft Power and Spanish Diplomacy at the Casa del Sol (1613â1622)
âErnesto Oyarbide Magaña
15 Prohibition as Propaganda Technique: The Case of the Pamphlet La couronne usurpée et le prince supposé (1688)
âRindert Jagersma
Part 5: Religious Authority
16 Illustrating Authority: The Creation and Reception of an English Protestant Iconography
âNora Epstein
17 Between Ego Documents and Anti-Catholic Propaganda: Printed Revocation Sermons in Seventeenth-Century Lutheran Germany
âMartin Christ
18 Learned Servants: Dutch Ministers, Their Books and the Struggle for a Reformed Republic in the Dutch Golden Age
âForrest C. Strickland
Index
This volume will appeal to historians of early modern print culture as well as historians of media and anyone with broad interest in early modern cultural and political history.