Printing the Written Word : The Social History of Books, c. 1450-1520 / Sandra Hindman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hindman, Sandra, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literary Studies.

Local Subjects:

Literary Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.) : 80 halftones

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

How did the earliest printers go about their work? What factors accounted for economic success or failure? How did artists collaborate with printers? Who made up the audience for new books? Were printed books read differently than manuscript books? This collections addresses such key questions relating to the development of the book during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Sandra L. Hindman brings together ten new essays representing a wide range of scholarly disciplines, including art history, literature, history, theater, and analytic bibliography.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. From Schoeffer to Verard: Concerning The Scribes Who Became Printers

2. Publish and Perish: The Career of Lienhart Holle in Ulm

3. The Career of Guy Marchant (1483-1504): High Culture and Low Culture in Paris

4. Text, Image, and Authorial Self- Consciousness in Late Medieval Paris

5. New Perspectives on the History of Mainz Printing: A Fresh Look at Illuminated Imprints

6. The Impact of Printing on Miniaturists in Venice after 1469

7. Importation of Books Printed on the Continent into England and Scotland before c. 1520

8. Inclinable Description and Its Implication for the Analysis of Fifteenth-Century Reading Habits

9. Reading the Printed Image: Illuminations and Woodcuts of the Pelerinage de la vie humaine in the Fifteenth Century

10. Mementos of Things to Come: Orality, Literacy, and Typology in the Biblia pauperum

Notes on the Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-5017-3504-7

OCLC:

1178768905