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Authority in European book culture 1400-1600
1 online resource (vi, 232 pages) : illustrations.
"Through its many and varied manifestations, authority has frequently played a role in the communication process in both manuscript and print. This volume explores how authority, whether religious, intellectual, political or social, has enforced the circulation of certain texts and text versions, or acted to prevent the distribution of books, pamphlets and other print matter. It also analyzes how readers, writers and printers have sometimes rebelled against the constraints and restrictions of authority, publishing controversial works anonymously or counterfeiting authoritative texts; and how the written or printed word itself has sometimes been perceived to have a kind of authority, which might have had ramifications in social, political or religious spheres. Contributors look at the experience of various European cultures-English, French, German and Italian-to allow for comparative study of a number of questions pertinent to the period. Among the issues explored are local and regional factors influencing book production; the interplay between manuscript and print culture; the slippage between authorship and authority; and the role of civic and religious authority in cultural production. Deliberately conceived to foster interdisciplinary dialogue between the history of the book, and literary and cultural history, this volume takes a pan-European perspective to explore the ways in which authority infiltrates and is in turn propagated or undermined by book culture."--Provided by publisher.
Manuscript, print, orality and the authority of texts in Renaissance Italy / Brian Richardson -- Books on the bridge : writing, printing and viral authority / Adrian Armstrong -- Competing codes of authority in mid-fifteenth century Burgundy : Martin Le Franc and the book that answers back / Helen Swift -- Authority through antiquity : humanist historiography and regional descriptions : the cases of Erasmus Stella, Johannes Cuspinian and Robert Gaguin / Albert Schirrmeister -- Schiltberger's travels, 1396-1597 / Samuel Pacuks Willcocks -- Print and political propaganda under Pope Julius II (1503-1513) / Massimo Rospocher -- Denis Sauvage, Renaissance editor of medieval manuscripts / Catherine Emerson -- Fictions of authority : Hélisenne de Crenne and the Angoysses douloureuses qui procedent d'amours (1538) / Pollie Bromilow -- The early polemics of Henry VIII's royal supremacy and their international usage / Tracey A. Sowerby -- Rebuking the princes : Erasmus Alber in Magdeburg, 1548-52 / Jane Finucane -- Religious authority and publishing success in the early modern Jesuit penitential book printing / Robert Aleksander Maryks.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Material readings in early modern culture