Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (C. 1450-1600) / / edited by Anna Dlabacová, Andrea van Leerdam, and John Thompson.

• Superior document: Intersections Series ; Volume 85.
• TeilnehmendeR: Dlabačová, Anna, 1983-; Leerdam, Andrea van,; Thompson, John J., 1955-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Intersections (Albany, N.Y.) ; Volume 85.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Includes index.

"This volume explores various approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Europe in the 15th-16th centuries. Through a shared focus on the material book as an interface between producers and users, the contributors investigate how book producers conceived of their target audiences and how these vernacular books were designed and used. Three sections highlight connections between vernacularity and materiality from distinct perspectives: real and imagined readers, mobility of texts and images, and intermediality. The volume brings contributions on different regions, languages, and book types into dialogue. Contributors include Heather Bamford, Tillmann Taape, Stefan Matter, Suzan Folkerts, Karolina Mroziewicz, Martha W. Driver, Alexa Sand, Elisabeth de Bruijn, Katell Lave´ant, Margriet Hoogvliet, and Walter S. Melion"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Part 1. Real and Imagined Readers -- Reading Magic in Early Modern Iberia / Heather Bamford -- Vernacular Readers of Medicine : Imagined Audiences and Material Traces of Reading in Hieronymus Brunschwig's Distillation Books / Tillmann Taape -- The Hortulus animae : an Archive of Medieval Prayer Book Literature / Stefan Matter -- Printers' Strategies and Readers' Responses : Vernacular Editions of the Deventer Printers Richard Pafraet and Jacob van Breda / Suzan Folkerts -- Personalizing Universal History : Noblemen's Responses to the Polish-Language Chronicle of the Whole World by Marcin Bielski / Karolina Mroziewicz -- Part 2. Mobility of Texts and Images -- The Schoolroom in Early English Illustration / Martha W. Driver -- Moving Pictures : The Art and Craft of Dying Well in the Woodcuts of Wynkyn de Worde / Alexa Sand -- Catering to Different Tastes : Western-European Romance in the Earliest Decades of Printing / Elisabeth de Bruijn -- Part 3. Intermediality -- Moveable Types of Merry Monsters : Joyful Literature on Paper and on the Walls / Katell Lave´ant -- Pour ce fault morir en vivant : Medieval Humanist Readings of Text and Images in Pierre Michault's Danse aux aveugles / Margriet Hoogvliet -- Meditating the Unbearable in a Fifteenth-Century Netherlandish Manuscript Prayerbook with Printed Images / Walter S. Melion -- Afterword. Making an End of the Beginnings of Early Printing in Western Europe / John J. Thompson.