Licensing Loyalty : : Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France / / Jane McLeod.
In Licensing Loyalty, historian Jane McLeod explores the evolution of the idea that the royal government of eighteenth-century France had much to fear from the rise of print culture. She argues that early modern French printers helped foster this view as they struggled to negotiate a place in the ex...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 |
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Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Penn State Series in the History of the Book
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Early History of Printers in Provincial France, 1470-1660
- 2 The Vicissitudes of a Royal Decree:
- 3 The Royal Council Takes Control:
- 4 The Purges:
- 5 Arguments Offered by Printers in Petitions for Licenses, 1667-1789
- 6 Patronage and Bureaucracy Intersect:
- 7 Behind the Rhetoric:
- Conclusion
- Appendix A: Printers' Wealth in the Eighteenth Century
- Appendix B: Some Licensed Provincial Printers Involved in the Clandestine Book Trade, 1750-89, by Town
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index