Print and power in early modern Europe (1500-1800)

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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 print's 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 destabilizing force of change in early modern societies, the resulting picture shows how instrumental print was in strengthening existing power structures Contents Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Printing Press as an Agent of Power Part 1 Governing through Print Chapter 1 Policing in Print: Social Control in Spanish and Borromean Milan (1535–1584) Chapter 2 On Printing and Decision-Making: The Management of Information by the City Powers of Lyon (ca. 1550–ca. 1580) Chapter 3 Printing for Central Authorities in the Early Modern Low Countries (15th–17th Centuries) Chapter 4 Rural Officials Discover the Printing Press in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy Part 2 Printing for Government Chapter 5 Printing for the Reformation: The Canonical Documents of the Edwardian Church of England, 1547–1553 Chapter 6 Newspapers and Authorities in Seventeenth-Century Germany Chapter 7 The Politics of Print in the Dutch Golden Age: The Ommelander Troubles (c. 1630–1680) Part 3 Patronage and Prestige Chapter 8 The Rise of the Stampatore Camerale: Printers and Power in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome Chapter 9 State and Church Sponsored Printing by Jan Januszowski and His Drukarnia Łazarzowa (Officina Lazari) in Krakow Chapter 10 Ferdinando de’ Medici and the Typographia Medicea Chapter 11 Royal Patronage of Illicit Print: Catherine of Braganza and Catholic Books in Late Seventeenth-Century London Part 4 Power of Persuasion Chapter 12 The Papacy, Power, and Print: The Publication of Papal Decrees in the First Fifty Years of Printing Chapter 13 Pictures and Power: The Visual Prints of Frans Hogenberg Chapter 14 Collecting ‘Toute l’Angleterre’: English Books, Soft Power and Spanish Diplomacy at the Casa del Sol (1613–1622) Chapter 15 Prohibition as Propaganda Technique: The Case of the Pamphlet La couronne usurpée et le prince supposé (1688) Part 5 Religious Authority Chapter 16 Illustrating Authority: The Creation and Reception of an English Protestant Iconography Chapter 17 Between Ego Documents and Anti-Catholic Propaganda: Printed Revocation Sermons in Seventeenth-Century Lutheran Germany Chapter 18 Learned Servants: Dutch Ministers, Their Books and the Struggle for a Reformed Republic in the Dutch Golden Age Index