The French book and the European book world

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    • Pettegree, Andrew

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The French book and the European book world

by Andrew Pettegree

(Library of the written word, v. 1)

Brill, 2007

  • : hbk.

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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 print. 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.

Table of Contents

Preface List of Figures and Illustrations Places of Original Publication 1. Rare Books and Revolutionaries: The French Bibliotheques Municipales PART I. PAMPHLETS AND THEIR READERS 2. A Provincial News Community in Sixteenth-Century France 3. Protestantism, Publication and the French Wars of Religion. The Case of Caen 4. Protestant Printing during the French Wars of Religion. The Lyon Press of Jean Saugrain 5. Geneva Print and the Coming of the French Wars of Religion PART II. DISSEMINATION 6. France and the Netherlands. The Interlocking of Two Religious Cultures in Print during the Era of the Religious Wars 7. French Books at the Frankfurt Fair 8. Emden as a Centre of the Sixteenth-Century Book Trade. A Catalogue of the Bookseller Gaspar Staphorst 9. Translation and the Migration of Text PART III. PERSPECTIVES 10. The Reformation and the Book: A Reconsideration 11. The Growth of the Provincial Press in 16th-Century Europe 12. The Reception of Calvinism in Britain 13. Printing and the Reformation: The English Exception Index

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