Scholarship, Commerce, Religion : : The Learned Book in the Age of Confessions, 1560-1630 / / Ian Maclean.

A decade ago in the Times Literary Supplement, Roderick Conway Morris claimed that "almost everything that was going to happen in book publishing-from pocket books, instant books and pirated books, to the concept of author's copyright, company mergers, and remainders-occurred during the ea...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 37 line illustrations, 1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Conventions of Transcription
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter one. Setting the Scene
  • Chapter two. In Medias Res: A Literary Agent in Frankfurt, 1606-1615
  • Chapter three. Authors, Fields, and Genres
  • Chapter four. Labor, Impensa, Emolumentum: The Publisher of Learned Books
  • Chapter five. Controlling the Market: Temporal and Ecclesiastical Authorities
  • Chapter six. Sellers and Purchasers: Markets, Distribution, and Collection- Building
  • Chapter seven. The Rise and Fall of the Learned Book Market, 1560-1630
  • Chapter eight. Postscript: Then and Now
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index