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Print Culture at the Crossroads
The Book and Central Europe
Series: - Library of the Written Word, Volume: 94
- Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 94
Print Culture at the Crossroads investigates how the spread of printing shaped a distinctive literary culture in Central Europe during the early modern period. Moving beyond the boundaries of the nation state, twenty-five scholars from over a dozen countries examine the role of the press in a region characterised by its many cultures, languages, religions, and alphabets. Antitrinitarians, Roman and Greek Catholics, Calvinists, Jews, Lutherans, and Orthodox Christians used the press to preserve and support their communities. By examining printing and patronage networks, catalogues, inventories, woodblocks, bindings, and ownership marks, this volume reveals a complicated web of connections linking printers and scholars, Jews and Christians, across Central Europe and beyond.
Elizabeth Dillenburg, Ph.D. (2019, University of Minnesota) is an assistant professor of history at the Ohio State University at Newark.
Howard Louthan, Ph.D. (1994, Princeton University), is director of the Center for Austrian Studies and professor of history at the University of Minnesota. His books include The Quest for Compromise and Converting Bohemia.
Drew B. Thomas, Ph.D. (2018, University of St Andrews), is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin. He is the author of The Industry of Evangelism: Printing for the Reformation in Martin Lutherâs Wittenberg (Brill, 2021).
Howard Louthan, Ph.D. (1994, Princeton University), is director of the Center for Austrian Studies and professor of history at the University of Minnesota. His books include The Quest for Compromise and Converting Bohemia.
Drew B. Thomas, Ph.D. (2018, University of St Andrews), is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin. He is the author of The Industry of Evangelism: Printing for the Reformation in Martin Lutherâs Wittenberg (Brill, 2021).
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction: Towards a Literary Culture of Central Europe
âHoward Louthan
1 Hearing the Word of God
âThe Aural and Symbolic Presence of Bibles in Early Hungarian-Speaking Calvinism
âGraeme Murdock
2 The Ministerâs Reading List
âReligious Books in the Libraries of Transylvanian Lutheran Clergy
âMaria CrÄciun
3 The Posthumous Reception of an Antitrinitarian Bishop at Home and Abroad
âThe Afterlife of György Enyediâs Explicationes
âBorbála Lovas
4 Books for Transylvanian Greek Catholics
âConfessional Printing with Cross-Confessional Sourcing
âRadu Nedici
5 Liturgical Books after the Council of Trent
âImplementation, Innovation and the Formation of Local Tradition in the Habsburg Lands
âMarie-Elizabeth Ducreux
6 Making Erasmus Speak Czech
âFemale Patronage and Production of the 1533 Czech Translation of the New Testament
âJan Volek
7 Praise of Bohemian Folly
âContext and Consequences of the Histories of Brother Jan PaleÄek
âMartina Pranic
8 Cum imaginibus, cum iconibus
âCataloguing Printed Images in Early Modern Libraries
âMagdalena Herman
9 Early Modern Polish Travellers Purchasing Books in Italy
âOwnership Evidence as a Source of Information
âMarianna Czapnik
10 Facing the âTurkâ in the Book Culture of Central Europe
âZsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik
11 Reused Matrices, Adopted Iconographies and Misleading Images
âWoodcuts on the Title Pages of Lutherâs Early Sermons on the Sacraments
âGrażyna Jurkowlaniec
12 The Lotter Printing Dynasty
âMichael Lotter and Reformation Printing in Magdeburg
âDrew B. Thomas
13 Mistaken Authorship
âA Study of the First Edition and Reprints of the Pamphlet Ein Mandat Jesu Christi
âJiÅà Äerný
14 The Dream of a Border-Crossing Bible
âA Study of Ungnad, Trubar, Vergerio, Konzul and Their Co-Workers
âLuka IliÄ and Marija Wakounig
15 The Reformation, the Book, and the Clergy
âThe Place of Holy Scripture in the Churches of the Duchy of Pomerania and Clerical Identity in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
âMaciej PtaszyÅski
16 Printing and Post-Tridentine Catholicism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
âMagdalena Komorowska
17 Buying Bound Books in Sixteenth-Century Cracow
âUsing Inventories and Bindings to Uncover a Thriving Retail Market
âKatarzyna PÅaszczyÅska-Herman
18 Publishing Books in Early Modern Jewish Prague
âOlga Sixtová
19 Printing of Learned Literature in Hebrew, 1510â1630
âToward a New Understanding of Early Modern Jewish Practices of Reading
âPavel Sládek
20 The Standard and the Exceptional in a Provincial Print Shop
âThe Case of Early Modern Oels
âMaria Piasecka
21 Trusting Facts, Trusting People
âApprobata, Endorsements and Authoritative Knowledge in the Early Modern Jewish Book Trade
âJoshua Teplitsky
22 The (Swéerts-)Sporcks and Their Subjects
âLocal and Transcultural Printing and Distribution of Heterodox Books in Eighteenth-Century Bohemia
âVeronika Äapská
23 The Circulation of Jewish Esoteric Knowledge in Manuscript and Print
âThe Case of Early Modern East-Central Europe
âAgata Paluch
24 âThat Little Golden Bookâ
âEastern Slavic Translations of the Imitation of Christ, 1628â1799
âLiudmyla Sharipova
Epilogue: The Hand Press and Political Dissent
âForbidden Print in Central Europe, 1800â1848
âJames M. Brophy
Index
Introduction: Towards a Literary Culture of Central Europe
âHoward Louthan
Part 1: Confessional Diversity and the Book: A Hungarian and Transylvanian Case Study
1 Hearing the Word of God
âThe Aural and Symbolic Presence of Bibles in Early Hungarian-Speaking Calvinism
âGraeme Murdock
2 The Ministerâs Reading List
âReligious Books in the Libraries of Transylvanian Lutheran Clergy
âMaria CrÄciun
3 The Posthumous Reception of an Antitrinitarian Bishop at Home and Abroad
âThe Afterlife of György Enyediâs Explicationes
âBorbála Lovas
4 Books for Transylvanian Greek Catholics
âConfessional Printing with Cross-Confessional Sourcing
âRadu Nedici
5 Liturgical Books after the Council of Trent
âImplementation, Innovation and the Formation of Local Tradition in the Habsburg Lands
âMarie-Elizabeth Ducreux
Part 2: The Renaissance World of Central Europe
6 Making Erasmus Speak Czech
âFemale Patronage and Production of the 1533 Czech Translation of the New Testament
âJan Volek
7 Praise of Bohemian Folly
âContext and Consequences of the Histories of Brother Jan PaleÄek
âMartina Pranic
8 Cum imaginibus, cum iconibus
âCataloguing Printed Images in Early Modern Libraries
âMagdalena Herman
9 Early Modern Polish Travellers Purchasing Books in Italy
âOwnership Evidence as a Source of Information
âMarianna Czapnik
10 Facing the âTurkâ in the Book Culture of Central Europe
âZsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik
Part 3: Martin Luther and the Book
11 Reused Matrices, Adopted Iconographies and Misleading Images
âWoodcuts on the Title Pages of Lutherâs Early Sermons on the Sacraments
âGrażyna Jurkowlaniec
12 The Lotter Printing Dynasty
âMichael Lotter and Reformation Printing in Magdeburg
âDrew B. Thomas
13 Mistaken Authorship
âA Study of the First Edition and Reprints of the Pamphlet Ein Mandat Jesu Christi
âJiÅà Äerný
14 The Dream of a Border-Crossing Bible
âA Study of Ungnad, Trubar, Vergerio, Konzul and Their Co-Workers
âLuka IliÄ and Marija Wakounig
15 The Reformation, the Book, and the Clergy
âThe Place of Holy Scripture in the Churches of the Duchy of Pomerania and Clerical Identity in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
âMaciej PtaszyÅski
Part 4: Local Communities and the Book
16 Printing and Post-Tridentine Catholicism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
âMagdalena Komorowska
17 Buying Bound Books in Sixteenth-Century Cracow
âUsing Inventories and Bindings to Uncover a Thriving Retail Market
âKatarzyna PÅaszczyÅska-Herman
18 Publishing Books in Early Modern Jewish Prague
âOlga Sixtová
19 Printing of Learned Literature in Hebrew, 1510â1630
âToward a New Understanding of Early Modern Jewish Practices of Reading
âPavel Sládek
20 The Standard and the Exceptional in a Provincial Print Shop
âThe Case of Early Modern Oels
âMaria Piasecka
Part 5: Print Culture in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe
21 Trusting Facts, Trusting People
âApprobata, Endorsements and Authoritative Knowledge in the Early Modern Jewish Book Trade
âJoshua Teplitsky
22 The (Swéerts-)Sporcks and Their Subjects
âLocal and Transcultural Printing and Distribution of Heterodox Books in Eighteenth-Century Bohemia
âVeronika Äapská
23 The Circulation of Jewish Esoteric Knowledge in Manuscript and Print
âThe Case of Early Modern East-Central Europe
âAgata Paluch
24 âThat Little Golden Bookâ
âEastern Slavic Translations of the Imitation of Christ, 1628â1799
âLiudmyla Sharipova
Epilogue: The Hand Press and Political Dissent
âForbidden Print in Central Europe, 1800â1848
âJames M. Brophy
Index
All interested in early-modern European history, the history of the book, and the linguistic and religious diversity of central Europe.