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

Author:   Benito Rial Costas
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   24
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9789004235748


Pages:   424
Publication Date:   09 November 2012
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Benito Rial Costas
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   24
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.820kg
ISBN:  

9789004235748


ISBN 10:   9004235744
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   09 November 2012
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Acknowledgments Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction Part I. Small Cities in Context Chapter 1: Pablo Sanchez Leon European Provincial Towns: Demographic and Institutional Trends in Regional Networks, 1400-1600 Part II. Printing and the Book Trade in Small European Cities Chapter 2: Falk Eisermann A Golden Age? Monastic Printing Houses in the Fifteenth Century Chapter 3: Paul F. Gehl Advertising or Fama? Local Markets for Schoolbooks in Sixteenth-Century Italy Chapter 4: John Hinks The Book Trade in Early Modern Britain: Centres, Peripheries and Networks Chapter 5: Ian Maxted Impressorie Arte: The Impact of Printing in Exeter and Devon Chapter 6: Hubert Meeus Printing in the Shadow of a Metropolis Chapter 7: Istvan Monok Towns and Book Culture in Hungary at the End of the Fifteenth Century and During the Sixteenth Century Chapter 8: Giancarlo Petrella Ippolito Ferrarese, a Traveling 'Cerretano' and Publisher in Sixteenth-Century Italy Chapter 9: Wolfgang Undorf Print and Book Culture in the Danish Town of Odense Chapter 10: Malcolm Walsby Printer Mobility in Sixteenth-Century France Part III. Printing and the Book Trade in Small Spanish Cities Chapter 11: Natalia Maillard Alvarez and Rafael M. Perez Garcia Printing Presses in Antequera in the Sixteenth Century Chapter 12: Jaime Moll The Liturgical Books Published by Pedro de Castro, Bishop of Cuenca (1554-1561) Chapter 13: Jose Manuel Pedraza Gracia Minor Printing Offices in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Aragon: Hijar, Huesca and Epila Chapter 14: Manuel Pena Diaz Barcelona: Printers, Booksellers and Local Markets in the Sixteenth Century Chapter 15: Fermin de los Reyes and Marta M. Nadales The Book in Segovia in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Accident, Chance, Necessity? Chapter 16: Benito Rial Costas Santiago de Compostela: A Case Study of Bookselling in Peripheries Chapter 17: Anastasio Rojo Vega From Europe to Finisterre: A Caravan of Books to Galicia (1595)

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The volume lives up to its ambitions and contains much that is novel and useful. Ian Maclean, All Souls College, Oxford University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Fall 2013), pp. 964-965. Asi un volumen que nos ofrece, sin duda, una optica absolutamente novedosa y que, aventuramos, tendra un feliz recorrido en los proximos anos. Jose Luis Gonzalo Sanchez-Molero, University Complutense of Madrid. In: Revista General de Informacion y Documentacion, Vol. 23, No. 2 (2013), pp. 462-464.


The volume lives up to its ambitions and contains much that is novel and useful. Ian Maclean, All Souls College, Oxford University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Fall 2013), pp. 964-965. The caliber of research in all essays in the volume is extremely high, with some genuinely outstanding contributions [...] both the editor and contributors should be congratulated on this remarkable and thought-provoking volume. Alexander S. Wilkinson, University College Dublin. In: SHARP News, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Autumn 2014), p. 10. this is a welcome collection of studies illustrating the less-than-usual corners of the early-modern book trade in Europe. David J. Shaw, Canterbury. In: Publishing History, Vol. 73 (2013), pp. 81-84. Asi un volumen que nos ofrece, sin duda, una optica absolutamente novedosa y que, aventuramos, tendra un feliz recorrido en los proximos anos. Jose Luis Gonzalo Sanchez-Molero, University Complutense of Madrid. In: Revista General de Informacion y Documentacion, Vol. 23, No. 2 (2013), pp. 462-464.


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Benito Rial Costas, Ph.D. (2006) in Spanish Philology, University of Santiago de Compostela, is an independent scholar based in Italy. He has published on print culture in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, including Produccion y comercio del libro (2007). Contributors include: Falk Eisermann, Paul F. Gehl, John Hinks, Natalia Maillard Alvarez, Ian Maxted, Hubert Meeus, Jaime Moll, Istvan Monok, Marta M. Nadales, Jose Manuel Pedraza Gracia, Manuel Pena Diaz, Rafael M. Perez Garcia, Giancarlo Petrella, Fermin de los Reyes, Benito Rial Costas, Anastasio Rojo Vega, Pablo Sanchez Leon, Wolfgang Undorf, and Malcolm Walsby.

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