Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (C. 1450-1600) / / edited by Anna Dlabacová, Andrea van Leerdam, and John Thompson.
"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 a...
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| Superior document: | Intersections Series ; Volume 85. |
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| 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. |
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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.