Learning and the market place : essays in the history of the early modern book / / by Ian Maclean.

• Superior document: Library of the written word, v. 9. The handpress world ; v. 6
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Maclean, Ian, 1945-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Library of the written word ; 9.; Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 6.
• Physical Description: xii, 457 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

The market for scholarly books and conceptions of genre in Northern Europe, 1570-1630 -- The readership of philosophical fictions in France in the sixteenth century : the bibliographical evidence -- Mediations of Zabarella in northern Germany, 1586-1623 -- The diffusion of learned medicine in the sixteenth century through the printed book -- The reception of medieval practical medicine in the sixteenth century : the case of Arnau de Vilanova -- Melanchthon at the book fairs, 1560-1601 : editors, markets and religious strife -- Cardano and his publishers, 1534-1663 -- Andre Wechel at Frankfurt, 1572-1581 -- Murder, debt and retribution in the Italico-Franco-Spanish book trade : the Beraud-Michel-Ruiz affair, 1586-1591 -- Competitors or collaborators? Sebastian Gryphius and his colleagues in Lyon, 1528-1556 -- Alberico Gentili, his publishers, and the vagaries of the book trade between England and Germany, 1580-1614 -- English books on the continent, 1570-1630 -- 'Lusitani periti' : Portuguese medical authors, national identity and bibliography in the late Renaissance -- Louis Jacob de Saint-Charles (1608-1670) and the development of specialist bibliography.