Print culture at the crossroads : the book and Central Europe / edited by Elizabeth Dillenburg, Howard Paul Louthan, Drew B. Thomas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dillenburg, Elizabeth, editor.

Louthan, Howard, 1963- editor.

Thomas, Drew B., editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

Library of the written word ; volume 94.

Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; volume 94

The handpress world ; volume 75

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Printing--Europe, Central--History.

Printing.

Book industries and trade--Europe, Central--History.

Book industries and trade.

Books--Europe, Central--History.

Books.

Libraries--Europe, Central--History.

Libraries.

Religion and religious literature--Europe, Central--History.

Religion and religious literature.

Religious literature--Distribution--Europe, Central--History.

Religious literature.

Language and languages--Variation--History.

Language and languages.

Language and languages--Variation.

History.

Religious literature--Distribution.

Central Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction: Towards a Literary Culture of Central Europe / Howard Louthan

Part 1. Confessional Diversity and the Book: A Hungarian and Transylvanian Case Study

Hearing the Word of God : The Aural and Symbolic Presence of Bibles in Early Hungarian-Speaking Calvinism / Graeme Murdock

The Minister's Reading List : Religious Books in the Libraries of Transylvanian Lutheran Clergy / Maria Crăciun

The Posthumous Reception of an Antitrinitarian Bishop at Home and Abroad : The Afterlife of György Enyedi's Explicationes / Borbála Lovas

Books for Transylvanian Greek Catholics : Confessional Printing with Cross-Confessional Sourcing / Radu Nedici

Liturgical Books after the Council of Trent : Implementation, Innovation and the Formation of Local Tradition in the Habsburg Lands / Marie-Elizabeth Ducreux

Part 2. The Renaissance World of Central Europe

Making Erasmus Speak Czech : Female Patronage and Production of the 1533 Czech Translation of the New Testament / Jan Volek

Praise of Bohemian Folly : Context and Consequences of the Histories of Brother Jan Paleček / Martina Pranic

Cum imaginibus, cum iconibus : Cataloguing Printed Images in Early Modern Libraries / Magdalena Herman

Early Modern Polish Travellers Purchasing Books in Italy : Ownership Evidence as a Source of Information / Marianna Czapnik

Facing the 'Turk' in the Book Culture of Central Europe / Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik

Part 3. Martin Luther and the Book

Reused Matrices, Adopted Iconographies and Misleading Images : Woodcuts on the Title Pages of Luther's Early Sermons on the Sacraments / Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

The Lotter Printing Dynasty : Michael Lotter and Reformation Printing in Magdeburg / Drew B. Thomas

Mistaken Authorship : A Study of the First Edition and Reprints of the Pamphlet Ein Mandat Jesu Christi / Jiří Černý

The Dream of a Border-Crossing Bible : A Study of Ungnad, Trubar, Vergerio, Konzul and Their Co-Workers / Luka Ilić and Marija Wakounig

The Reformation, the Book, and the Clergy : The Place of Holy Scripture in the Churches of the Duchy of Pomerania and Clerical Identity in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Maciej Ptaszyński

Part 4. Local Communities and the Book

Printing and Post-Tridentine Catholicism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth / Magdalena Komorowska

Buying Bound Books in Sixteenth-Century Cracow : Using Inventories and Bindings to Uncover a Thriving Retail Market / Katarzyna Płaszczyńska-Herman

Publishing Books in Early Modern Jewish Prague / Olga Sixtová

Printing of Learned Literature in Hebrew, 1510-1630 : Toward a New Understanding of Early Modern Jewish Practices of Reading / Pavel Sládek

The Standard and the Exceptional in a Provincial Print Shop : The Case of Early Modern Oels / Maria Piasecka

Part 5. Print Culture in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe

Trusting Facts, Trusting People : Approbata, Endorsements and Authoritative Knowledge in the Early Modern Jewish Book Trade / Joshua Teplitsky

The (Swéerts-)Sporcks and Their Subjects : Local and Transcultural Printing and Distribution of Heterodox Books in Eighteenth-Century Bohemia / Veronika Čapská

The Circulation of Jewish Esoteric Knowledge in Manuscript and Print : The Case of Early Modern East-Central Europe / Agata Paluch

"That Little Golden Book" : Eastern Slavic Translations of the Imitation of Christ, 1628-1799 / Liudmyla Sharipova

Epilogue: The Hand Press and Political Dissent : Forbidden Print in Central Europe, 1800-1848 / James M. Brophy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

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Online version: Print culture at the crossroads

ISBN:

9789004462342

9004462341

Publisher Number:

40030714039

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