Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe: Beyond Production, Circulation and Consumption

Description

This book presents and explores a challenging new approach in book history. It offers a coherent volume of thirteen chapters in the field of early modern book history covering a wide range of topics and it is written by renowned scholars in the field. The rationale and content of this volume will revitalize the theoretical and methodological debate in book history. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the field of early modern book history as well as in a range of other disciplines. It offers book historians an innovative methodological approach on the life cycle of books in and outside Europe. It is also highly relevant for social-economic and cultural historians because of the focus on the commercial, legal, spatial, material and social aspects of book culture. Scholars that are interested in the history of science, ideas and news will find several chapters dedicated to the production, circulation and consumption of knowledge and news media. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Books and Book History in Motion: Materiality, Sociality and Spatiality (Daniel Bellingradt, Jeroen Salman)....Pages 1-11 Front Matter ....Pages 13-13 Promoting the Counter-Reformation in Provincial France: Printing and Bookselling in Sixteenth-Century Verdun (Malcolm Walsby)....Pages 15-37 Conrad Gessner and the Mobility of the Book: Zurich, Frankfurt, Venice (1543) (Paul Nelles)....Pages 39-66 Paper Networks and the Book Industry. The Business Activities of an Eighteenth-century Paper Dealer in Amsterdam (Daniel Bellingradt)....Pages 67-85 Marketing a New Legal Code in Fifteenth-Century Castile: A Case Study of the Interactions Between Crown, Law and Printing (Benito Rial Costas)....Pages 87-108 Front Matter ....Pages 109-109 Links Between Newspapers and Books: The Case of an Early ‘Media Tycoon’ in Late Eighteenth-Century Central Europe (Andreas Golob)....Pages 111-141 Publishers, Editors and Artists in the Marketing of News in the Dutch Republic circa 1700: The Case of Jan Goeree and the Europische Mercurius (Joop W. Koopmans)....Pages 143-167 The Battle of Medical Books: Publishing Strategies and the Medical Market in the Dutch Republic (1650–1750) (Jeroen Salman)....Pages 169-192 What Killed Théodore Rilliet de Saussure? Censorship and the Old Regime in France, 1769–1789 (Mark Curran)....Pages 193-218 Front Matter ....Pages 219-219 Reading Strategies in Scotland circa 1750–1820 (Vivienne S. Dunstan)....Pages 221-242 Italian Books and French Medical Libraries in the Renaissance (Shanti Graheli)....Pages 243-266 Printed in Europe, Consumed in Ottoman Lands: European Books in the Middle East, 1514–1842 (Geoffrey Roper)....Pages 267-288 Matter, Sociability and Space: Some Ways of Looking at the History of Books (Joad Raymond)....Pages 289-295 Back Matter ....Pages 297-305