Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (C. 1450-1600)

"This volume explores various approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Europe in the 15th-16th centuries. Through a shared focus on the material book as an interface between producers and users, the contributors investigate how book producers conceived of their target a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Dlabačová, Anna, 1983- editor (editor), Leerdam, Andrea van, editor, Thompson, John J., 1955- editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV [2023]
Edición:First edition
Colección:Intersections (Albany, N.Y.) ; Volume 85.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009787034706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Real and Imagined Readers
  • Reading Magic in Early Modern Iberia / Heather Bamford
  • Vernacular Readers of Medicine : Imagined Audiences and Material Traces of Reading in Hieronymus Brunschwig's Distillation Books / Tillmann Taape
  • The Hortulus animae : an Archive of Medieval Prayer Book Literature / Stefan Matter
  • Printers' Strategies and Readers' Responses : Vernacular Editions of the Deventer Printers Richard Pafraet and Jacob van Breda / Suzan Folkerts
  • Personalizing Universal History : Noblemen's Responses to the Polish-Language Chronicle of the Whole World by Marcin Bielski / Karolina Mroziewicz
  • Part 2. Mobility of Texts and Images
  • The Schoolroom in Early English Illustration / Martha W. Driver
  • Moving Pictures : The Art and Craft of Dying Well in the Woodcuts of Wynkyn de Worde / Alexa Sand
  • Catering to Different Tastes : Western-European Romance in the Earliest Decades of Printing / Elisabeth de Bruijn
  • Part 3. Intermediality
  • Moveable Types of Merry Monsters : Joyful Literature on Paper and on the Walls / Katell Lave´ant
  • Pour ce fault morir en vivant : Medieval Humanist Readings of Text and Images in Pierre Michault's Danse aux aveugles / Margriet Hoogvliet
  • Meditating the Unbearable in a Fifteenth-Century Netherlandish Manuscript Prayerbook with Printed Images / Walter S. Melion
  • Afterword. Making an End of the Beginnings of Early Printing in Western Europe / John J. Thompson.