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Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (c. 1450â1600)
Series: - Intersections, Volume: 85
'The Open Access publishing costs of this volume were covered by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Veni-project âLeaving a Lasting Impression. The Impact of Incunabula on Late Medieval Spirituality, Religious Practice and Visual Culture in the Low Countriesâ (grant number 275-30-036).'
This volume explores various approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Europe in the 15th-16th centuries. Through a shared focus on the material book as an interface between producers and users, the contributors investigate how book producers conceived of their target audiences and how these vernacular books were designed and used. Three sections highlight connections between vernacularity and materiality from distinct perspectives: real and imagined readers, mobility of texts and images, and intermediality. The volume brings contributions on different regions, languages, and book types into dialogue.
Contributors include Heather Bamford, Tillmann Taape, Stefan Matter, Suzan Folkerts, Karolina Mroziewicz, Martha W. Driver, Alexa Sand, Elisabeth de Bruijn, Katell Lavéant, Margriet Hoogvliet, and Walter S. Melion.
This volume explores various approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Europe in the 15th-16th centuries. Through a shared focus on the material book as an interface between producers and users, the contributors investigate how book producers conceived of their target audiences and how these vernacular books were designed and used. Three sections highlight connections between vernacularity and materiality from distinct perspectives: real and imagined readers, mobility of texts and images, and intermediality. The volume brings contributions on different regions, languages, and book types into dialogue.
Contributors include Heather Bamford, Tillmann Taape, Stefan Matter, Suzan Folkerts, Karolina Mroziewicz, Martha W. Driver, Alexa Sand, Elisabeth de Bruijn, Katell Lavéant, Margriet Hoogvliet, and Walter S. Melion.
Anna DlabaÄová, Ph.D. (2014), is Associate Professor at Leiden University and PI of the project âPages of Prayer: The Ecosystem of Vernacular Prayer Books in the Late Medieval Low Countries, c. 1380-1550â (ERC Starting Grant).
Andrea van Leerdam, Ph.D., is a book historian at Utrecht University with a particular interest in the materiality of early printed books, early modern reading practices, and visual culture. She has previously worked as a humanities communications advisor.
John J. Thompson is Professor emeritus at Queenâs University, Belfast and honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. He has written widely on late medieval and Early Modern English book history with a particular focus on significant transitional episodes in pre and post Reformation English textual cultures.
Andrea van Leerdam, Ph.D., is a book historian at Utrecht University with a particular interest in the materiality of early printed books, early modern reading practices, and visual culture. She has previously worked as a humanities communications advisor.
John J. Thompson is Professor emeritus at Queenâs University, Belfast and honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. He has written widely on late medieval and Early Modern English book history with a particular focus on significant transitional episodes in pre and post Reformation English textual cultures.
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
âAnna DlabaÄová and Andrea van Leerdam
1 Reading Magic in Early Modern Iberia
âHeather Bamford
2 Vernacular Readers of Medicine: Imagined Audiences and Material Traces of Reading in Hieronymus Brunschwigâs Distillation Books
âTillmann Taape
3 The Hortulus animae â An Archive of Medieval Prayer Book Literature
âStefan Matter
4 Printersâ Strategies and Readersâ Responses: Vernacular Editions of the Deventer Printers Richard Pafraet and Jacob van Breda
âSuzan Folkerts
5 Personalizing Universal History: Noblemenâs Responses to the Polish-Language Chronicle of the Whole World by Marcin Bielski
âKarolina Mroziewicz
6 The Schoolroom in Early English Illustration
âMartha W. Driver
7 Moving Pictures: The Art and Craft of Dying Well in the Woodcuts of Wynkyn de Worde
âAlexa Sand
8 Catering to Different Tastes: Western-European Romance in the Earliest Decades of Printing
âElisabeth de Bruijn
9 Moveable Types of Merry Monsters: Joyful Literature on Paper and on the Walls
âKatell Lavéant
10 Pour ce fault morir en vivant: Medieval Humanist Readings of Text and Images in Pierre Michaultâs Danse aux aveugles
âMargriet Hoogvliet
11 Meditating the Unbearable in a Fifteenth-Century Netherlandish Manuscript Prayerbook with Printed Images
âWalter S. Melion
Afterword: Making an End of the Beginnings of Early Printing in Western Europe
âJohn J. Thompson
Index Nominum
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
âAnna DlabaÄová and Andrea van Leerdam
Part 1: Real and Imagined Readers
1 Reading Magic in Early Modern Iberia
âHeather Bamford
2 Vernacular Readers of Medicine: Imagined Audiences and Material Traces of Reading in Hieronymus Brunschwigâs Distillation Books
âTillmann Taape
3 The Hortulus animae â An Archive of Medieval Prayer Book Literature
âStefan Matter
4 Printersâ Strategies and Readersâ Responses: Vernacular Editions of the Deventer Printers Richard Pafraet and Jacob van Breda
âSuzan Folkerts
5 Personalizing Universal History: Noblemenâs Responses to the Polish-Language Chronicle of the Whole World by Marcin Bielski
âKarolina Mroziewicz
Part 2: Mobility of Texts and Images
6 The Schoolroom in Early English Illustration
âMartha W. Driver
7 Moving Pictures: The Art and Craft of Dying Well in the Woodcuts of Wynkyn de Worde
âAlexa Sand
8 Catering to Different Tastes: Western-European Romance in the Earliest Decades of Printing
âElisabeth de Bruijn
Part 3: Intermediality
9 Moveable Types of Merry Monsters: Joyful Literature on Paper and on the Walls
âKatell Lavéant
10 Pour ce fault morir en vivant: Medieval Humanist Readings of Text and Images in Pierre Michaultâs Danse aux aveugles
âMargriet Hoogvliet
11 Meditating the Unbearable in a Fifteenth-Century Netherlandish Manuscript Prayerbook with Printed Images
âWalter S. Melion
Afterword: Making an End of the Beginnings of Early Printing in Western Europe
âJohn J. Thompson
Index Nominum
Scholars and students interested in early printed books in Europe, vernacular book production, readers and reading practices, and in interdisciplinary approaches to the materiality of print. Keywords: printing, materiality, incunabula, manuscript and print, late medieval period, early modern period, reading practices, image-text relations, European vernaculars, print market, reception study, text and images.