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“This amazing book shows how seemingly trivial things – title pages, prefaces, and footnotes in Victorian history books – can become fascinating source material in the hands of a talented scholar. With a characteristic mix of erudition and elegance, Elise Garritzen makes a case for paratexts serving as arenas for historians’ collective self-fashioning in a culture where only few could derive scholarly authority from institutional affiliation. No one before has shown so convincingly that book history and the history of historiography have much to offer to each other.” – Herman Paul, Leiden University What constitutes a historian? What skills and qualities should a historian cultivate? Who is entitled to define historians’ “physiognomy”? Victorians sought to answer these questions as history transformed from a Romantic literary pursuit into a modern discipline during the second half of the nineteenth century. This book offers a novel interpretation of this critical historiographical period by tracing how historians forged themselves a collective scholarly persona that legitimized their new disciplinary status. By combining historiography and book history, Elise Garritzen argues that historians appropriated titles, prefaces, footnotes, and other paratexts as an institutionalized space for fashioning the persona. Yet, historians did not have a monopoly on the persona as readers and reviewers offered their interpretations of the persona, and publishers influenced the paratextual presentation of the persona. By ascribing agency to paratexts and the literary marketplace, Garritzen makes an important shift in the way we perceive the formation of scholarly personae and modern disciplines. The book offers a novel approach to the role which scholarly virtues held in the Victorian society, the formation of scholarly communities, the commodification of knowledge, and the management of scientific reputations. It provides new insights for scholars interested in the history of humanities, science, and knowledge, book history, and Victorian culture. Elise Garritzen is an Academy of Finland researcher at the University of Helsinki. Her research revolves around European historiography, cultural history, and book history.

Science --- Historiography. --- History --- Civilization --- Books --- Great Britain --- History of Science. --- Historiography and Method. --- Cultural History. --- History of the Book. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- History. --- Methodology. --- Cultural history --- Historical criticism --- Authorship --- Criticism --- Historiography --- Historians --- England --- Intellectual life

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This book depicts the Early Modern book markets in Europe and colonial Latin America. The nature of book production and distribution in this period resulted in the development of a truly international market. The integration of the book market was facilitated by networks of printers and booksellers, who were responsible for the connection of distant places, as well as local producers and merchants. At the same time, due to the particular nature of books, political and religious institutions intervened in book markets. Printers and booksellers lived in a politically fragmented world where religious boundaries often shifted. This book explores both the development of commercial networks as well as how the changing institutional settings shaped relationships in the book market. Montserrat Cachero has been teaching Economic History at Pablo de Olavide University, Spain, since 2004 as part of the Economics department where she received her tenure track in 2012. She was distinguished academic visitor at Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 2005 and visiting fellow at the Center for History and Economics, Harvard University, USA, in 2016. She is an expert in sixteenth century Atlantic Trade, focusing on contracts, conflicts, and institutions for contract enforcement. She has also been involved in the development of Historical Network Analysis and has published articles on both the theoretical side (Vínculos en Historia, JCR) and its application (The Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, JCR Q1). Natalia Maillard-Álvarez has been teaching Early Modern History at the University Pablo de Olavide, Spain, since 2012. She has been Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow there since 2016 and Associate Professor of Early Modern History since 2021. She was also Marie Curie Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence from 2010 to 2012 and EURIAS fellow at the Collegium de Lyon from 2015 to 2016. Her research field is book history, especially the history of the book trade and the history of readers in the Hispanic Monarchy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She edited Books in the Catholic World during the Early Modern Period (2014) and coedited Bibliotecas de la Monarquía Hispánica en la Primera Globalización (2021). .

European literature—Renaissance, 1450-1600. --- Literature—History and criticism. --- Literature. --- Books—History. --- Printing. --- Publishers and publishing. --- Economic history. --- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature. --- Literary History. --- World Literature. --- History of the Book. --- Printing and Publishing. --- Economic History. --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Book publishing --- Books --- Book industries and trade --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Printing, Practical --- Typography --- Graphic arts --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Publishing --- European literature --- Literature --- Renaissance, 1450-1600. --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Appraisal of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Literature, Renaissance --- Renaissance literature --- Literature, Modern --- Appraisal --- Evaluation

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The Society of Jesus began a tradition of collecting books and curating those collections at its foundation. These libraries were important to both their European sites and their missions; they helped build a global culture as part of early modern European evangelization. When the Society was suppressed, the Jesuits’ possessions were seized and redistributed, by transfer to other religious orders, confiscation by governments, or sale to individuals. These possessions were rarely returned, and when, in 1814, the Society was restored, the Jesuits had to begin to build new libraries from scratch. Their practices of librarianship, though not their original libraries, left an intellectual legacy which still informs library science today. While there are few European Jesuit universities left, institutions of higher learning administered by the Society of Jesus remain important to the intellectual development of students and communities around the world, supported by large, rich library collections.

Book History and Cartography. --- History of the Book. --- History. --- Early Modern History. --- Intellectual History. --- Church History. --- Christianity --- Ecclesiastical history --- History, Church --- History, Ecclesiastical --- History --- Jesuits --- Jesuits. --- Books and reading. --- Libraries. --- Cizvit Cemiyeti --- Compagnia di Ges --- Compagnia di Gies --- Compagnie de Jésus --- Companhia de Jesus --- Compañía de Jesús --- Dòng Chúa Giêsu --- Dòng TênDòng Chúa Giêsu --- Družba Isusova --- Gesellschaft Jesu --- Gesuiti --- Iezusukai --- Isusovci --- Jesuit Order --- Jesuítas --- Jesuiten --- Jesuitenorden --- Jésuites --- Jesus Society --- Jezovit --- Jezsuiták --- Jezuici --- Jezuit --- Jézus Társaság --- Ordre des jésuites --- Padri Gesuiti --- S.I. (Societas Iesu) --- S.J. (Societas Jesu) --- Serikat Jesus --- SJ --- Societas Iesu --- Societas Jesu --- Société des jésuites --- Society of Jesus --- Tovaryšstvo Ježišovo --- Towarzystwo Jezusowe --- Yesu hui --- Yezuiti --- Compagnie de Jésus --- Compañia de Jesus --- Jesuitas --- Jesuiti --- Jezuïten --- Jésuites --- Paters Jezuïten --- Societeit van Jezus --- イエズス会 --- カトリック イエズス会 --- Books --- Libraries --- Book collecting. --- Intellectual life