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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453920303321

Autore

Pettegree Andrew

Titolo

The French book and the European book world [[electronic resource] /] / by Andrew Pettegree

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007

ISBN

1-281-93657-X

9786611936570

90-474-2197-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Collana

Library of the written word. Handpress world, , 1874-4834 ; ; v. 1

Disciplina

002.0944/09031

Soggetti

Book industries and trade - France - History - 16th century

Book industries and trade - Europe - History - 16th century

Printing - France - History - 16th century

Printing - Europe - History - 16th century

Religious literature - Publishing - France - History - 16th century

Religious literature - Publishing - Europe - History - 16th century

Reformation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Pamphlets and their readers -- pt. 2. Dissemination -- pt. 3. Perspectives.

Sommario/riassunto

This work offers a series of linked studies of European print culture in the sixteenth century, focusing particularly on France and the regional, provincial experience of printing France, in the sixteenth century, was one of the great centres of the European publishing industry. But in the second half of the century the established dominance of Paris and Lyon was increasingly challenged by other new printing centres, stimulated in part by the religious and political crisis of the French Wars of Religion. Drawing on the data collected by the St Andrews French book project, the author reconstructs the enigmatic history of a number of previously unstudied printers. The focus throughout is on popular print, and the growth of mass market for news, entertainment and



religious instruction. Customers interested in this title may also be interested in French Vernacular Books , edited by Andrew Pettegree, Malcolm Walsby and Alexander Wilkinson.