Religion and the book trade / / edited by Caroline Archer and Lisa Peters

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910806208103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-4438-8341-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 p.)
• Disciplina: 381.45002094
• Soggetti: Book industries and trade - Europe - History; Religious literature - Publishing - Europe - History; Publishers and publishing - Europe - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume brings together a selection of the papers presented at the "Print Networks" conference at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, in July 2011. The conference theme, "Religion and the book trade", was chosen to mark the four-hundredth anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible. Numerous events throughout the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world took place to commemorate this historic event, the Print Networks conference being one of many.Religious books - be they tracts, sermons, homilies, hymn books, or Bibles - were primarily used by all denominations to