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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (397 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674065321
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Scholarship, Commerce, ReligionDDC classification:
  • 070.5094/09031
LOC classification:
  • Z291
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Conventions of Transcription -- List of Illustrations -- 1. Setting the Scene -- 2. In Medias Res: A Literary Agent in Frankfurt, 1606- 1615 -- 3. Authors, Fields, and Genres -- 4. Labor, Impensa, Emolumentum: The Publisher of Learned Books -- 5. Controlling the Market: Temporal and Ecclesiastical Authorities -- 6. Sellers and Purchasers: Markets, Distribution, and Collection- Building -- 7. The Rise and Fall of the Learned Book Market, 1560- 1630 -- 8. Postscript: Then and Now -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This study of the learned book trade of the late Renaissance reveals how many features of today's publishing world were in place even then. Beginning in Frankfurt, Maclean surveys the authors, publishers, censors, and sellers who operated in this fraught religious atmosphere and overheated market, and ends with the market's decline in the 1620s.
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Intro -- Contents -- Conventions of Transcription -- List of Illustrations -- 1. Setting the Scene -- 2. In Medias Res: A Literary Agent in Frankfurt, 1606- 1615 -- 3. Authors, Fields, and Genres -- 4. Labor, Impensa, Emolumentum: The Publisher of Learned Books -- 5. Controlling the Market: Temporal and Ecclesiastical Authorities -- 6. Sellers and Purchasers: Markets, Distribution, and Collection- Building -- 7. The Rise and Fall of the Learned Book Market, 1560- 1630 -- 8. Postscript: Then and Now -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This study of the learned book trade of the late Renaissance reveals how many features of today's publishing world were in place even then. Beginning in Frankfurt, Maclean surveys the authors, publishers, censors, and sellers who operated in this fraught religious atmosphere and overheated market, and ends with the market's decline in the 1620s.

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