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A decade ago in the Times Literary Supplement, Roderick Conway Morris claimed that "almost everything that was going to happen in book publishing-from pocket books, instant books and pirated books, to the concept of author's copyright, company mergers, and remainders-occurred during the early days of printing." Ian Maclean's colorful survey of the flourishing learned book trade of the late Renaissance brings this assertion to life. The story he tells covers most of Europe, with Frankfurt and its Fair as the hub of intellectual exchanges among scholars and of commercial dealings among publishers. The three major religious confessions jostled for position there, and this rivalry affected nearly all aspects of learning. Few scholars were exempt from religious or financial pressures. Maclean's chosen example is the literary agent and representative of international Calvinism, Melchior Goldast von Haiminsfeld, whose activities included opportunistic involvement in the political disputes of the day. Maclean surveys the predicament of underfunded authors, the activities of greedy publishing entrepreneurs, the fitful interventions of regimes of censorship and licensing, and the struggles faced by sellers and buyers to achieve their ends in an increasingly overheated market. The story ends with an account of the dramatic decline of the scholarly book trade in the 1620's, and the connivance of humanist scholars in the values of the commercial world through which they aspired to international recognition. Their fate invites comparison with today's writers of learned books, as they too come to terms with new technologies and changing academic environments.

Book history --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Scholarly publishing --- Book industries and trade --- Communication in learning and scholarship --- History --- 094.1 <4> --- 094 "15/16" --- Oude drukken: bibliografie----Europa --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--?"15/16" --- 094.1 <4> Oude drukken: bibliografie----Europa --- book history --- publishers --- trade [function] --- scholars --- church history --- bookselling --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- Academic publishing --- Publishers and publishing --- Communication in scholarship --- Scholarly communication --- Learning and scholarship --- booksellers --- trade [general function] --- booksellers [people]

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In Early Modern Thesis Prints in the Southern Netherlands, Gwendoline de Mûelenaere offers an account of the practice of producing illustrated thesis prints in the seventeenth-century Southern Low Countries. She argues that the evolution of the thesis print genre gave rise to the creation of a specific visual language combining efficiently various figurative registers of a historical and symbolic nature. The book offers a reflection on the representation of knowledge and its public recognition in the context of academic defenses. Early Modern Thesis Prints makes a timely contribution to our understanding of early modern print culture and more specifically to the expanding field of study concerned with the role of visual materials in early modern thought.

Book history --- Iconography --- engravings [prints] --- symbolism [artistic concept] --- broadsheet [format] --- universities [institutions] --- anno 1600-1699 --- Belgium --- Art and society --- Dissertations, Academic --- Learning and scholarship --- Prints, Flemish --- History --- Illustrations --- Themes, motives --- Flemish prints --- Erudition --- Scholarship --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Education --- Research --- Scholars --- Academic dissertations --- Programs, Academic --- Theses --- Thesis writing --- Universities and colleges --- Academic disputations --- Art --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- Dissertations --- Social aspects --- Dissertation universitaire --- Estampe --- Savoir et érudition --- Sciences --- Et l'art --- Themes, motives. --- Illustrations.

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History --- humanism --- congres / 1999 --- libraries [rooms] --- conferences --- Art --- Book history --- History of civilization --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Bibliothèques spéciales --- Colloques --- Colloquia --- Geschiedenis van de Renaissance --- Histoire de la Renaissance --- Humanisme --- Speciale bibliotheken --- Humanists --- Libraries --- Humanistes --- Bibliothèques --- Books and reading --- Congresses --- Livres et lecture --- Congrès --- Histoire --- Renaissance --- Learning and scholarship --- Private libraries --- Europe --- Intellectual life --- 027.1 --- 09 <063> --- 873.4 --- -Renaissance --- -Learning and scholarship --- -Erudition --- Scholarship --- Civilization --- Education --- Learned institutions and societies --- Research --- Scholars --- Revival of letters --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- Home libraries --- Libraries, Private --- Book collectors --- Particuliere bibliotheken. Familiebibliotheken. Personenbibliotheken --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Congressen --- Humanistisch Latijnse literatuur --- -Books and reading --- -History --- Intellectual life. --- 873.4 Humanistisch Latijnse literatuur --- 09 <063> Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Congressen --- 027.1 Particuliere bibliotheken. Familiebibliotheken. Personenbibliotheken --- -Particuliere bibliotheken. Familiebibliotheken. Personenbibliotheken --- -Europe --- Erudition --- Bibliothèques --- Congrès --- bookstocks --- humanists [people] --- private libraries [institutions] --- 1400-1599 (Renaissance) --- Boekgeschiedenis --- Kunst --- bibliotheken [ruimten] --- conferenties --- humanisme --- humanisten --- boekencollecties --- privébibliotheken [instellingen] --- 873.4 Humanist Latin literature --- Humanist Latin literature --- Learning and scholarship - Europe --- Humanists - Books and reading - Europe --- Private libraries - Europe - History - 1400-1600 --- Bibliothèque --- Europe - Intellectual life --- bibliofilie --- Bibliotheques --- 1400-1600

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In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Low Countries saw the rise of a lively market for practical and instructive books that targeted non-specialist readers. This study shows how woodcuts in vernacular books on medicine and astrology fulfilled important rhetorical functions in knowledge communication. These images guided readers' perceptions of the organisation, visualisation, and reliability of knowledge. Andrea van Leerdam uncovers the assumptions and intentions of book producers to which images testify, and shows how actual readers engaged with these illustrated books. Drawing on insights from the field of information design studies, she scrutinises the books' material characteristics, including their lay-outs and traces of use, to shed light on the habits and interests of early modern readers. She situates these works in a culture where medicine and astrology were closely interwoven in daily life and where both book producers and readers were exploring the potential of images.

Book history --- woodcuts [prints] --- medicine [discipline] --- astrology --- Netherlandish --- anno 1600-1699 --- History of ideas. --- History of medicine. --- History of scholarship (principally of social sciences and humanities). --- Wood-engraving --- History --- illustrations [layout features] --- anno 1500-1599 --- Medical illustration --- Medicine, Popular --- Wood-engraving, Dutch. --- Early works to 1800. --- DESIGN / Book. --- Illustration médicale --- Médecine populaire --- Gravure sur bois. --- Ouvrages avant 1800.

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Scholars --- Humanists --- Erasmus, Desiderius, --- Netherlands --- Intellectual life --- Persons --- Learning and scholarship --- Erasmus --- Erasmus, Desiderius --- Érasme --- Desiderius Erasmus --- Erasm, Dezideriĭ --- Erasme, Désiré --- Erasmo, --- Erasmo, Desidério --- Erasmus, --- Ėrazm, --- Erazm, --- Roterodamus, Erasmus --- Rotterdamskiĭ, Ėrazm --- Rotterdamský, Erasmus Desiderius --- Роттердамский, Эразм --- Эразм, --- Ерасм, Дезидерий --- Erasmus Roterodamus, Desiderius --- エラスムス, デシデリウス --- Desiderius Erasmus, --- Erasm, Dezideriĭ, --- Erasme, Désiré, --- Erasmo, Desidério, --- Roterodamus, Erasmus, --- Rotterdamskiĭ, Ėrazm, --- Rotterdamský, Erasmus Desiderius, --- Роттердамский, Эразм, --- Ерасм, Дезидерий, --- אראסמוס, דסידריוס,