Multilingual Print in Early Modern Europe / edited by Chloe Akers-Brewer, Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Akers-Brewer, Chloe, editor.

Pettegree, Andrew, editor.

Weduwen, Arthur der, editor.

Series:

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026.

Library of the Written Word ; 151.

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026

Library of the Written Word ; 151

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Book History and Cartography.

Literature and Cultural Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume provides the first book historical exploration of multilingual print culture in early modern Europe, examining multilingual editions, collections and corpuses to illuminate this fascinating and understudied aspect of the early modern book world. Its contributors examine multilingual print in the realms of education and language learning, scholarship and university culture, drama, official print and news, offering nine case studies of multilingual print across the continent and three comparative surveys. What emerges is a picture of multilingual print culture which was thoroughly integrated into early modern society as well as being a defining characteristic of the early modern book trade.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Chapter 1 Multilingual Print Culture in Early Modern Europe

Part 1 Publishing and Translating

Chapter 2 The Ecosystem of Multilingual Printing

Chapter 3 Word Salad? Printed News Texts, Early Modern Translation Practices and Names as Sites of Multilingualism

Part 2 Education and Reading

Chapter 4 Language-Savvy Layouts: Dutch-French Schoolbooks and the Pedagogical Power of Print (c.1510-1610)

Chapter 5 Multilingual Books and Multilingual Readers

Part 3 Learning and Scholarship

Chapter 6 Moral Precepts, Rhetorical Skills, and Learning Greek: Printing Greek-Latin Sententiae in Cities of the Holy Roman Empire in the Sixteenth Century

Chapter 7 Translation and the Production of Multilingual Knowledge in Printed Sixteenth-Century European Herbals

Part 4 Recreation and Celebration

Chapter 8 Nobody and Somebody on the Continent: the English Comedians' Site-Specific Performances on European Stages

Chapter 9 The Language of Celebration: Festive Multilingualism in Finnish Academic Print

Part 5 Law, Politics and News

Chapter 10 Multilingualism, State Communication and the Printing of Law in Early Modern Europe

Chapter 11 Politics and Multilingual Print in Seventeenth-Century Denmark

Chapter 12 'For the Sake of the Truth': the Valtellina Massacre and the Bündner Wirren in Translation, 1618-1639

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004759985

OCLC:

1600522925

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004759985 DOI