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Author Pettegree, Andrew.

Title The book in the Renaissance / Andrew Pettegree.

Imprint New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  070.5094 P451b 2010    ---  Available
Description xvi, 421 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [362]-407) and index.
Contents Part. 1. Beginnings -- The book before print -- The invention of printing -- Renaissance encounters : the crisis of print -- Part. 2. Consolidation -- The creation of a European book market -- Book town Wittenberg -- Luther's legacy -- First with the news -- Polite recreations -- At school -- Part. 3. Conflict -- The literature of conflict -- The search for order -- Market forces -- Part. 4. New worlds -- Science and exploration -- Healing -- Building a library -- Word and the street -- A note on sources : Mapping the geography of print -- Appendix : A summary of printed outputs throughout Europe, 1450-1600.
Summary "The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of the natural and physical world, and brought the thrill of book ownership to the masses. But, as Andrew Pettegree reveals, the story of the post-Guttenberg world was rather more complicated than we have often come to believe. The Book in the Renaissance reconstructs the first 150 years of the world of print, exploring the complex web of religious, economic and cultural concerns surrounding the printed word. From its very beginnings, the printed book had to straddle financial and religious imperatives, as well as the very different requirements and constraints of the many countries who embraced it, and, as Pettegree argues, the process was far from a runaway success. More than ideas, the success or failure of books depended upon patrons and markets, precarious strategies and the thwarting of piracy, and the ebb and flow of popular demand. Pettegree crafts an authoritative, lucid and truly pioneering work of cultural history illuminating one of the greatest developments in the evolution of European society."--Book jacket.
Subject Book industries and trade -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
Book industries and trade -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
Books -- Europe -- History -- 1450-1600.
Social change -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
Printing -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
Printing -- Europe -- History -- Origin and antecedents.
Renaissance -- Social life and customs.
Reformation -- Europe.
Europe -- Intellectual life.
ISBN 9780300178210 (pbk)
0300178212 (pbk)
9780300110098
030011009X

 
    
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