Printing the Written Word : : The Social History of Books, c. 1450-1520 / / ed. by Sandra Hindman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Armstrong, Lilian,; Brown, Cynthia J.,; Camille, Michael,; Edmunds, Sheila,; Heinlen, Michael,; Hellinga, Lotte,; Hindman, Sandra,; Konig, Eberhard,; Nellhaus, Tobin,; Saenger, Paul,; Tedeschi, Martha,
• HerausgeberIn: Hindman, Sandra,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 80 halftones

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 than manuscript books? This collections addresses such key questions relating to the development of the book during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Sandra L. Hindman brings together ten new essays representing a wide range of scholarly disciplines, including art history, literature, history, theater, and analytic bibliography.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I. PRINTERS -- 1. From Schoeffer to Verard: Concerning The Scribes Who Became Printers -- 2. Publish and Perish: The Career of Lienhart Holle in Ulm -- 3. The Career of Guy Marchant (1483-1504): High Culture and Low Culture in Paris -- PART II. AUTHORS AND ARTISTS -- 4. Text, Image, and Authorial Self- Consciousness in Late Medieval Paris -- 5. New Perspectives on the History of Mainz Printing: A Fresh Look at Illuminated Imprints -- 6. The Impact of Printing on Miniaturists in Venice after 1469 -- PART III. READERS -- 7. Importation of Books Printed on the Continent into England and Scotland before c. 1520 -- 8. Inclinable Description and Its Implication for the Analysis of Fifteenth-Century Reading Habits -- 9. Reading the Printed Image: Illuminations and Woodcuts of the Pelerinage de la vie humaine in the Fifteenth Century -- 10. Mementos of Things to Come: Orality, Literacy, and Typology in the Biblia pauperum -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index