Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe : a Contribution to the History of Printing and the Book Trade in Small European and Spanish Cities.

This volume seeks to enhance our understanding of printing and the book trade in small and peripheral European cities in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries through a number of specific case studies.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rial Costas, Benito
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : BRILL, 2012.
Series:Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World.
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Table of Contents:
  • Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe ; Copyright ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Contributors ; List of Figures ; Introduction ; PART I: SMALL CITIES IN CONTEXT ; European Provincial Towns: Demographic and Institutional Trends in Regional Networks, 1400-1600.
  • PART II: PRINTING AND THE BOOK TRADE IN SMALL EUROPEAN CITIES A Golden Age? Monastic Printing Houses in the Fifteenth Century ; Advertising or Fama? Local Markets for Schoolbooks in Sixteenth-Century Italy ; The Book Trade in Early Modern Britain: Centres, Peripheries and Networks.
  • Impressorie Arte: The Impact of Printing in Exeter and Devon Printing in the Shadow of a Metropolis ; Towns and Book Culture in Hungary at the End of the Fifteenth Century and During the Sixteenth Century.
  • Ippolito Ferrarese, a Traveling 'Cerretano' and Publisher in Sixteenth-Century Italy Print and Book Culture in the Danish Town of Odense ; Printer Mobility in Sixteenth-Century France ; PART III: PRINTING AND THE BOOK TRADE IN SMALL SPANISH CITIES.
  • Printing Presses in Antequera in the Sixteenth Century The Liturgical Publishing Project of Pedro de Castro, Bishop of Cuenca (1554-1561) ; Minor Printing Offices in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Aragon: Híjar, Huesca and Épila.