Overview
- Demonstrates how the concepts of materiality, sociality and spatiality might contribute to a better understanding of the history of the book in early modern Europe.
- Features contributions from prominent book historians as well as up-and-coming scholars
- Makes an important contribution to ongoing discussion about the theoretical and methodological foundations of the field of book history
Part of the book series: New Directions in Book History (NDBH)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Beyond Production
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Beyond Circulation
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Beyond Consumption
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About this book
The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the field of early modern book history as well as in a range of other disciplines. It offers book historians an innovative methodological approach on the life cycle of books in and outside Europe. It is also highly relevant for social-economic and cultural historians because of the focus on the commercial, legal, spatial, material and social aspects of book culture. Scholars that are interested in the history of science, ideas and news will find several chapters dedicated to the production, circulation and consumption of knowledge and news media.
Reviews
“This book contributes significantly to a spatial turn in the history of the book. Its contributors identify innovative means of combining the study of the life-cycle of books with their mode and compass of transmission. The collection notably extends our understanding of the social history of knowledge.” (James Raven, Professor of Modern History, University of Essex, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Paul Nelles is Associate Professor of Early Modern European History at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and has recently published Cosas y Cartas: Scribal Production and Material Pathways in Jesuit Global Communications (1547-1573) (2015).
Jeroen Salman is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, Netherlands, and is co-editor of a Dutch book historical series (BGNB).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe
Book Subtitle: Beyond Production, Circulation and Consumption
Editors: Daniel Bellingradt, Paul Nelles, Jeroen Salman
Series Title: New Directions in Book History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53366-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53365-0Published: 04 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85135-8Published: 09 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53366-7Published: 07 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6117
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6125
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 305
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of the Book, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, History of Early Modern Europe