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International Exchange in the Early Modern Book World presents new research on several aspects of the movement and exchange of books between countries, languages and confessions. It considers elements of the international book trade, the circulation and collection of texts, the practice of translation and the diffusion and exchange of technical and cultural knowledge. Commercial and logistical aspects of the early modern book trade are considered, as are the relationships between local markets and the internationally-minded firms which sought to meet their expectations. The barriers to the movement of books across borders – political, linguistic, confessional, cultural – are explored, as are the means by which these barriers were surmounted.
Price: $229.00
Pages: 386
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
22 June 2016
ISBN: 9789004316447
Format: Other
“The incredibly rich and varied contributions in this volume reflect the current vibrancy of book history and underline how international the book world was in the first age of print, in terms of its agents and actors, authors and readers.”
Alexander Samson, University College London. In: Publishing History, Vol. 80 (2019), pp. 107-112.
Alexander Samson, University College London. In: Publishing History, Vol. 80 (2019), pp. 107-112.
Matthew McLean teaches early modern history at the University of St Andrews. His research is centred upon the Reformation and on learned culture and humanist networks in the sixteenth century. He has published on The Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster: Describing the World in the Reformation (Ashgate, 2007) and articles on the scholarly communities, networks and rivalries of Reformation Basel and Zurich. He has also edited, with Bruce Gordon, Shaping the Bible in the Reformation: Books, Scholars and their Readers in the Sixteenth Century (Brill, 2012).
Sara Barker is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Leeds. Her publications include Protestantism, Poetry and Protest: The Vernacular Writings of Antoine de Chandieu (c.1534-1591) (Ashgate, 2009) and articles on news and translation in early modern Europe. With Brenda M. Hosington, she co-edited Renaissance Cultural Crossroads: Translation, Print and Culture in Britain, 1473-1640 (Brill, 2013). Her current research focuses on the circulation of news in western Europe in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Sara Barker is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Leeds. Her publications include Protestantism, Poetry and Protest: The Vernacular Writings of Antoine de Chandieu (c.1534-1591) (Ashgate, 2009) and articles on news and translation in early modern Europe. With Brenda M. Hosington, she co-edited Renaissance Cultural Crossroads: Translation, Print and Culture in Britain, 1473-1640 (Brill, 2013). Her current research focuses on the circulation of news in western Europe in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.