From Gutenberg to Luther : transnational print cultures in Scandinavia 1450-1525

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    • Undorf, Wolfgang

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From Gutenberg to Luther : transnational print cultures in Scandinavia 1450-1525

by Wolfgang Undorf

(Library of the written word, v. 37 . The handpress world ; v. 28)

Brill, c2014

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-396) and index

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Description

Printed book cultures in Scandinavia before 1525 were formed by their vicinity to expanding European book markets. Collections of prints were founded, decisions on printing books in Scandinavia were based upon thorough knowledge of what printers on the continent achieved in question of volume, quality and price. Building on a large database of contemporary provenances and statistical analyses of every possible aspect of peripheral book markets, as well as on new readings of many old and new sources, this book recalibrates scholarly looks on Scandinavian book history before the Reformation. The result is a fresh portrait of a dynamic period in cultural history which places Scandinavia, though in the geographical periphery of Europe, in the middle of European printing.

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Figures List of Tables Introduction 1 Printing in and for Scandinavia before the Reformation 2 Scandinavian Book Trade and the European Context 3 Book Collections and Collectors: Churches and Monasteries 4 Book Collectors and Collections: Universities and Schools 5 Book Collectors and Collections: Private Owners 6 The Reception of Printed Works Conclusion: Transnationalism and a Model for Scandinavian Pre-Reformation Book History Appendix 1 The Malmoe List Appendix 2 Books from the Principal Pre-Reformation Danish Religious Libraries Appendix 3 The Lecturer's Library in Slesvig Appendix 4 The Inventory of a House Belonging to the Bishop of Odense, 1530-1532 Bibliography Index

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