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Communities of Print
Books and their Readers in Early Modern Europe
Series: - Library of the Written Word, Volume: 99
- Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 99
This book provides a new perspective on book history by exploring communities created by the production and consumption of printed material. Essays by leading scholars explore the connections between writers, printers, booksellers and readers and examine changes and continuities across the period 1500 to 1800. As well as investigating the networks behind the production and dissemination of printed material, this collection examines the ways in which readers consumed, used and shared their printed texts. By focusing on the materiality of early modern texts, contributors to this volume offer new interpretations of the history of reading, the book trade, and the book as an object in early modern Europe.
Rosamund Oates, PhD (2004, University of York) is a Reader in Early Modern History at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has published widely on the English Reformation, with particular interest in preaching and reading history, including Moderate Radical: Tobie Matthew and the English Reformation (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Jessica G. Purdy is a PhD candidate in Early Modern and Book History at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has a particular interest in the history of reading in the Tudor and Stuart periods.
Jessica G. Purdy is a PhD candidate in Early Modern and Book History at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has a particular interest in the history of reading in the Tudor and Stuart periods.
List of Figures, Tables and Graphs
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âRosamund Oates and Jessica G. Purdy
1 Selling Luther: Printing Counterfeits in Reformation Augsburg
âDrew B. Thomas
2 Market Realities: Christopher Plantinâs International Networks in an Ever-Changing World
âJulianne Simpson
3 âFar Off from the Wellâs Headâ: The Production and Circulation of Books in Early Modern Yorkshire
âRosamund Oates
4 âFor the Edification of the Common Peopleâ: Humphrey Chethamâs Parish Libraries
âJessica G. Purdy
5 Friars and Friends: Books as Private or Shared Belongings in Early Modern Religious Communities
âFlavia Bruni
6 Teachers of Christâs Church: Protestant Ministers as Readers of the Church Fathers in the Dutch Golden Age
âForrest C. Strickland
7 Print, Friendship and Voluntary Devotional Communities in North West England, c. 1660âc. 1730
âMichael A.L. Smith
8 Rural Readings of Sacred History: The Nuremberg Chronicle and Its Lancashire Readers
âNina Adamova
9 Reading Medieval Wales: David Powelâs History of Cambria (1584) and Its Readers
âKathryn Hurlock
10 Poetic Failure, Communal Memory, and George Herbertâs Outlandish Proverbs
âCatherine Evans
11 Micrography in Later Stuart Britain: Curious Spectacles and Political Emblems
âTim Somers
Bibliography
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âRosamund Oates and Jessica G. Purdy
Part 1: Networks of Books
1 Selling Luther: Printing Counterfeits in Reformation Augsburg
âDrew B. Thomas
2 Market Realities: Christopher Plantinâs International Networks in an Ever-Changing World
âJulianne Simpson
3 âFar Off from the Wellâs Headâ: The Production and Circulation of Books in Early Modern Yorkshire
âRosamund Oates
4 âFor the Edification of the Common Peopleâ: Humphrey Chethamâs Parish Libraries
âJessica G. Purdy
Part 2: Reading Together
5 Friars and Friends: Books as Private or Shared Belongings in Early Modern Religious Communities
âFlavia Bruni
6 Teachers of Christâs Church: Protestant Ministers as Readers of the Church Fathers in the Dutch Golden Age
âForrest C. Strickland
7 Print, Friendship and Voluntary Devotional Communities in North West England, c. 1660âc. 1730
âMichael A.L. Smith
Part 3: Different Readers
8 Rural Readings of Sacred History: The Nuremberg Chronicle and Its Lancashire Readers
âNina Adamova
9 Reading Medieval Wales: David Powelâs History of Cambria (1584) and Its Readers
âKathryn Hurlock
10 Poetic Failure, Communal Memory, and George Herbertâs Outlandish Proverbs
âCatherine Evans
11 Micrography in Later Stuart Britain: Curious Spectacles and Political Emblems
âTim Somers
Bibliography
Index
Those interested in history of the book, readership and reception history, and the cultural and social history of early modern Europe, particularly academics, students, and rarebook librarians.