Title & Author:

Printing the written word : the social history of books, circa 1450-1520 / edited by Sandra Hindman.

Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 1991.
©1991

Description:

xii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From Schoeffer to Vérard : concerning the scribes who became printers / Sheila Edmunds -- Publish and perish : the career of Lienhart Holle in Ulm / Martha Tedeschi -- The career of Guy Marchant (1483-1504) : high culture and low culture in Paris / Sandra Hindman -- Text, image, and authorial self-consciousness in late medieval Paris / Cynthia J. Brown -- New perspectives on the history of Mainz printing : a fresh look at illuminated imprints / Eberhard König -- The impact of printing on miniaturists in Venice after 1469 / Lilian Armstrong -- Importation of books printed on the continent into England and Scotland before c.1520 / Lotte Hellinga -- Incunable description and its implication for the analysis of fifteenth-century reading habits / Paul Saenger and Michael Heinlen -- Reading the printed image : illuminations and woodcuts of the Pèlerinage de la vie humaine in the fifteenth century / Michael Camille -- Mementos of things of to come : orality, literacy, and typology in the Biblia pauperum / Tobin Nellhaus.

Summary:

How did the earliest printers go about their work? What factors accounted for economic success or failure? How did artists collaborate with printers? Who made up the audience for new books? Were printed books read differently from manuscript books? This collection addresses such key questions relating to the development of the book in the West during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Sandra Hindman brings together ten new essays representing a wide range of scholarly disciplines, including art, history, literature, history, theater, and analytic bibliography. Individual essays consider various aspects of the social and historical contexts of the early printed book in Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, and England. Rather than focusing on either the uneasy continuity or the fundamental discontinuity between scribal culture and print culture, as previous scholarship has tended to do, Printing the Written Word sheds light on the social function of the early printed book while presenting a detailed picture of its production and reception. -- Book cover.

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ISBN:

0801425786 (cloth)
9780801425783 (cloth)
080149902X (paper)
9780801499029 (paper)

Subject:

Bibel Ester
Printing History Origin and antecedents.
Book industries and trade Social aspects.
Books and reading Social aspects.
Printing History 16th century.
Books History 1450-1600.
Imprimerie Histoire Origines et antécédents.
Livres Industrie Aspect social.
Livres et lecture Aspect social.
Imprimerie Histoire 16e siècle.
Livres Histoire 1450-1600.
Books
Printing
Printing Origin and antecedents
Buchdruck
Kongress
Buch
Oude drukken.
Incunabelen.
Sociale aspecten.
Boekwezen.
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Book industries and trade Social aspects Congresses
Books History 1400-1600 Congresses
Books and reading Social aspects Congresses
Printing History 16th century Congresses
Printing History Origin and antecedents Congresses
Sozialgeschichte 1450-1520

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Kongress Chicago (Ill.) 1987.
History
Annotations.

Added entries:

Hindman, Sandra, 1944- editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 91794
Call No.: ID Z126.P73 REF; ID:93-B53
Status: Available