Books and Prints at the Heart of the Catholic Reformation in the Low Countries (16th – 17th centuries) / / edited by Renaud Adam, Rosa De Marco, and Malcolm Walsby.

Often considered as the first phenomenon of mass media in history, the use of books and prints by Protestants has been widely studied and has generated a rich and plentiful bibliography. In contrast, the production and use of these supports by the partisans of the Counter-Reformation have not receiv...

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Superior document:Library of the Written Word ; 104
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Library of the Written Word ; 104.
Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2022.
Physical Description:1 online resource (317 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Books and Prints at the Heart of the Catholic Reformation in the Low Countries (16th–17th Centuries) / Renaud Adam, Rosa De Marco and Malcolm Walsby
  • Part 1: Book Production and Book Business
  • 2 A Window of Opportunity: Framing Female Owner-Managers of Printing Houses in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp / Heleen Wyffels
  • 3 The Printing Industry and the Counter-Reformation in Brussels under Archduke Albert and Archduchess Isabella (1598–1633) / Renaud Adam
  • 4 Successful Strategies for Creating a Devotional Best Seller: Canisius’s Manuale Catholicorum Published by the Plantin Press / Dirk Imhof
  • 5 International Sales of Tridentine Emblems Books by the Antwerp Officina Plantiniana: The Case of Father Joannes David at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century / Renaud Milazzo
  • Part 2: Publishing Enterprises
  • 6 A French Book in the Low Countries: Matthieu de Launoy’s Déclaration et Réfutation and Its Reissues in Douai, Cambrai and Antwerp (1578–1579) / Alexander Soetaert
  • 7 ‘Per Modum Compendii a Leonardo Damerio Leodiensi in Lucem Editum’: Odo van Maelcote, Léonard Damery, the Astrolabium Aequinotiale, and the Parallactic Print between Italy and the Southern Netherlands in the Age of Galileo / Ruth Sargent Noyes
  • 8 An Imperial Crusade? Public Opinion in Antwerp and the Response to the Bohemian Crisis / Paul Arblaster
  • 9 Printed Christian hilaritas under Archdukes Albert and Isabel (1598–1621) / Johan Verberckmoes
  • Part 3: Prints and Iconography
  • 10 Militant Printers’ Marks across the Southern Low Countries (1561–1640): A Survey at the Heart of the Emblematic Era / Rosa De Marco
  • 11 The Counter-Reformation and Its Rebranding through Images: The Frontispieces of Books Printed in Antwerp / Annelyse Lemmens
  • 12 Thesis Prints Dedicated to Archduke Leopold William of Austria, in the Service of the Pietas Austriaca / Gwendoline de Mûelenaere
  • 13 The Iconography of the Last Supper in Géronimo Nadal’s Evangelicæ historiæ imagines / Valentine Langlais
  • Index.