Print culture at the crossroads: the book and Central Europe
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 Mi...
| Published in: | Library of the written word |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2021]
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Library of the written word (volume 94)
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| Series/Journal: | Library of the written word
volume 94 Library of the written word / The handpress world volume 75 |
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Middle Europe
/ Religious literature
/ Book printing
/ Book market
/ History 1500-1850
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Collection of essays
B Religious Literature Lexicostatistics (Europe, Central) History B Printing (Europe, Central) History B Religion and religious literature (Europe, Central) History B Language and languages Variation (Europe, Central) History B Books (Europe, Central) History B Book industries and trade (Europe, Central) History B Libraries (Europe, Central) History |
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| Summary: | 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. "Print Culture at the Crossroads investigates how the spread of printing shaped a distinctive literary culture in Central Europe during the early modern period. Moving beyond the boundaries of the nation state, twenty-five scholars from over a dozen countries examine the role of the press in a region characterised by its many cultures, languages, religions, and alphabets. Antitrinitarians, Roman and Greek Catholics, Calvinists, Jews, Lutherans, and Orthodox Christians used the press to preserve and support their communities. By examining printing and patronage networks, catalogues, inventories, woodblocks, bindings, and ownership marks, this volume reveals a complicated web of connections linking printers and scholars, Jews and Christians, across Central Europe and beyond"-- |
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| Item Description: | Literaturangaben in Fußnoten Mit Register |
| ISBN: | 9004448926 |