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
Biographical note
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 Producción y comercio del libro (2007).
Contributors include: Falk Eisermann, Paul F. Gehl, John Hinks, Natalia Maillard Álvarez, Ian Maxted, Hubert Meeus, Jaime Moll, István Monok, Marta M. Nadales, José Manuel Pedraza Gracia, Manuel Peña Díaz, Rafael M. Pérez García, Giancarlo Petrella, Fermín de los Reyes, Benito Rial Costas, Anastasio Rojo Vega, Pablo Sánchez León, Wolfgang Undorf, and Malcolm Walsby.
Contributors include: Falk Eisermann, Paul F. Gehl, John Hinks, Natalia Maillard Álvarez, Ian Maxted, Hubert Meeus, Jaime Moll, István Monok, Marta M. Nadales, José Manuel Pedraza Gracia, Manuel Peña Díaz, Rafael M. Pérez García, Giancarlo Petrella, Fermín de los Reyes, Benito Rial Costas, Anastasio Rojo Vega, Pablo Sánchez León, Wolfgang Undorf, and Malcolm Walsby.
Readership
All those interested in book history, early modern European history, bibliography, European Renaissance, cultural history, and the history of printing and the book trade.
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part I. Small Cities in Context
Chapter 1: Pablo Sánchez León
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: István 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 Álvarez and Rafael M. Pérez García
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: José Manuel Pedraza Gracia
Minor Printing Offices in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Aragon: Híjar, Huesca and Épila
Chapter 14: Manuel Peña Díaz
Barcelona: Printers, Booksellers and Local Markets in the Sixteenth Century
Chapter 15: Fermín 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)
Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part I. Small Cities in Context
Chapter 1: Pablo Sánchez León
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: István 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 Álvarez and Rafael M. Pérez García
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: José Manuel Pedraza Gracia
Minor Printing Offices in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Aragon: Híjar, Huesca and Épila
Chapter 14: Manuel Peña Díaz
Barcelona: Printers, Booksellers and Local Markets in the Sixteenth Century
Chapter 15: Fermín 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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