Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800) / / edited by Nina Lamal, Jamie Cumby, and Helmer J. Helmers.
Print, in the early modern period, could make or break power. This volume addresses one of the most urgent and topical questions in early modern history: how did European authorities use a new medium with such tremendous potential? The eighteen contributors develop new perspectives on the relationsh...
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| Superior document: | Library of the Written Word Series ; Volume 92 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of the written word ;
Volume 92. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 443 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Printing Press as an Agent of Power / Helmer Helmers, Nina Lamal and Jamie Cumby
- Part 1: Governing through Print
- Policing in Print: Social Control in Spanish and Borromean Milan (1535-1584) / Rachel Midura
- On Printing and Decision-Making: The Management of Information by the City Powers of Lyon (ca. 1550-ca. 1580) / Gautier Mingous
- Printing for Central Authorities in the Early Modern Low Countries (15th-17th Centuries) / Renaud Adam
- Rural Officials Discover the Printing Press in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy / Andreas Golob
- Part 2: Printing for Government
- Printing for the Reformation: The Canonical Documents of the Edwardian Church of England, 1547-1553 / Celyn Richards
- Newspapers and Authorities in Seventeenth-Century Germany / Jan Hillgärtner
- The Politics of Print in the Dutch Golden Age: The Ommelander Troubles (c. 1630-1680) / Arthur der Weduwen
- Part 3: Patronage and Prestige
- The Rise of the Stampatore Camerale: Printers and Power in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome / Paolo Sachet
- State and Church Sponsored Printing by Jan Januszowski and His Drukarnia Łazarzowa (Officina Lazari) in Krakow / Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba
- Ferdinando de'Medici and the Typographia Medicea / Caren Reimann
- Royal Patronage of Illicit Print: Catherine of Braganza and Catholic Books in Late Seventeenth-Century London / Chelsea Reutcke
- Part 4: Power of Persuasion
- The Papacy, Power, and Print: The Publication of Papal Decrees in the First Fifty Years of Printing / Margaret Meserve
- The Power of the Image: The Visual Prints of Frans Hogenberg / Ramon Voges
- Collecting 'Toute l'Angleterre': English Books, Soft Power and Spanish Diplomacy at the Casa del Sol (1613-1622) / Ernesto Oyarbide
- Prohibition as Propaganda Technique: The Case of the Pamphlet Lacouronne usurpee et le prince supposé (1688) / Rindert Jagersma
- Part 5: Relgious Authority
- Illustrating Authority: The Creation and Reception of an English Protestant Iconography / Nora Epstein
- Between Ego Documents and Anti-Catholic Propaganda: Printed Revocation Sermons in Seventeenth-Century Lutheran Germany / Martin Christ
- Learned Servants: Dutch Ministers, Their Books and the Struggle for a Reformed Republic in the Dutch Golden Age / Forrest C. Strickland.