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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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Author:   Elizabeth Dillenburg ,  Howard Louthan ,  Drew B. Thomas
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   94
Weight:   0.982kg
ISBN:  

9789004448926

ISBN 10:   9004448926
Pages:   554
Publication Date:   26 October 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables Introduction: Towards a Literary Culture of Central Europe  Howard Louthan Part 1: Confessional Diversity and the Book: A Hungarian and Transylvanian Case Study 1 Hearing the Word of God  The Aural and Symbolic Presence of Bibles in Early Hungarian-Speaking Calvinism  Graeme Murdock 2 The Minister’s Reading List  Religious Books in the Libraries of Transylvanian Lutheran Clergy  Maria Crăciun 3 The Posthumous Reception of an Antitrinitarian Bishop at Home and Abroad  The Afterlife of György Enyedi’s Explicationes  Borbála Lovas 4 Books for Transylvanian Greek Catholics  Confessional Printing with Cross-Confessional Sourcing  Radu Nedici 5 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 6 Making Erasmus Speak Czech  Female Patronage and Production of the 1533 Czech Translation of the New Testament  Jan Volek 7 Praise of Bohemian Folly  Context and Consequences of the Histories of Brother Jan Paleček  Martina Pranic 8 Cum imaginibus, cum iconibus  Cataloguing Printed Images in Early Modern Libraries  Magdalena Herman 9 Early Modern Polish Travellers Purchasing Books in Italy  Ownership Evidence as a Source of Information  Marianna Czapnik 10 Facing the ‘Turk’ in the Book Culture of Central Europe  Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik Part 3: Martin Luther and the Book 11 Reused Matrices, Adopted Iconographies and Misleading Images  Woodcuts on the Title Pages of Luther’s Early Sermons on the Sacraments  Grażyna Jurkowlaniec 12 The Lotter Printing Dynasty  Michael Lotter and Reformation Printing in Magdeburg  Drew B. Thomas 13 Mistaken Authorship  A Study of the First Edition and Reprints of the Pamphlet Ein Mandat Jesu Christi  Jiří Černý 14 The Dream of a Border-Crossing Bible  A Study of Ungnad, Trubar, Vergerio, Konzul and Their Co-Workers  Luka Ilić and Marija Wakounig 15 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 16 Printing and Post-Tridentine Catholicism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth  Magdalena Komorowska 17 Buying Bound Books in Sixteenth-Century Cracow  Using Inventories and Bindings to Uncover a Thriving Retail Market  Katarzyna Płaszczyńska-Herman 18 Publishing Books in Early Modern Jewish Prague  Olga Sixtová 19 Printing of Learned Literature in Hebrew, 1510–1630  Toward a New Understanding of Early Modern Jewish Practices of Reading  Pavel Sládek 20 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 21 Trusting Facts, Trusting People  Approbata, Endorsements and Authoritative Knowledge in the Early Modern Jewish Book Trade  Joshua Teplitsky 22 The (Swéerts-)Sporcks and Their Subjects  Local and Transcultural Printing and Distribution of Heterodox Books in Eighteenth-Century Bohemia  Veronika Čapská 23 The Circulation of Jewish Esoteric Knowledge in Manuscript and Print  The Case of Early Modern East-Central Europe  Agata Paluch 24 “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 Index

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Elizabeth Dillenburg, Ph.D. (2019, University of Minnesota) is an assistant professor of history at the Ohio State University at Newark. Howard Louthan, Ph.D. (1994, Princeton University), is director of the Center for Austrian Studies and professor of history at the University of Minnesota. His books include The Quest for Compromise and Converting Bohemia. Drew B. Thomas, Ph.D. (2018, University of St Andrews), is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin. He is the author of The Industry of Evangelism: Printing for the Reformation in Martin Luther’s Wittenberg (Brill, 2021).

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