Narrow your search
Listing 1 - 10 of 11 << page
of 2
>>
Sort by

Book
Feestzang bij het vierde eeuwgetijde van de uitvinding der boekdrukkunst
Authors: ---
Year: 1824 Publisher: [Leyden : D. du Mortier en zoon],

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Jugendstil, Art Nouveau : Buchkunst um 1900, Plakate, Graphik, Gläser ; Teile der Sammlungen R.B., W.R. und weitere Bestände aus verschiedenen schweizerischen und ausländischen Privatsammlungen : Auktion in Bern, den 22. ... [und] 23. März. 1968, L'Art ancien S.A., Zürich und Kornfeld und Klipstein, Bern.
Authors: ---
Year: 1968 Publisher: Zürich [etc.] : L'Art Ancien [etc.],

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Dutch Printer's Devices 15th-17th Century : Volume II: K-Z
Authors: ---
ISBN: 900453539X Year: 1999 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

An indispensable source of information for bibliographers and historians of mentality and visual culture. Contains inter alia a massive index of iconography, systematically arranged according to ICONCLASS classification schedules, offering some 20,000 references. In 3 volumes. The print edition is available as a set of three volumes (9789060044407).

The reformation world
Author:
ISBN: 0415268591 Year: 2002 Publisher: London ; New York, NY : Routledge,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Les origines de l'imprimerie à La Réole en Guyenne (1517) : recherches sur la vie et les travaux de Jean Le More, dit Maurus, de Coutances, imprimeur et professeur de grammaire (1507-1550)
Author:
Year: 1894 Publisher: Paris, : A. Claudin,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Popular reading in English c. 1400-1600
Author:
ISBN: 1526130645 9781526130648 9780719077999 0719077990 Year: 2017 Publisher: MANCHESTER MANCHESTER UNIV Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This book is about reading practice and experience in late medieval and early modern England. It focuses on the kinds of literatures that were more readily available to the widest spectrum of the population. Four case studies from many possibilities have been selected, each examining a particular type of popular literature under the headings 'religious', 'moral', 'practical' and 'fictional'. A key concern of the book is how we might use particular types of evidence in order to understand more about reading practice and experience, so issues of method and approach are discussed fully in the opening chapter. One distinctive element of this book is that it attempts to uncover evidence for the reading practices and experiences of real, rather than ideal, readers, using evidence that is found within the material of a book or manuscript itself, or within the structure of a specific genre of literature. Salter attempts to negotiate a path through a set of methodological and interpretive issues in order to arrive at a better understanding of how people may have read and what they may have read. This, in turn, leads on to how we may interpret the evidence that manuscripts and early printed books provide for the ways that medieval and early modern people engaged with reading. This book will be of interest to academics and research students who study the history of reading, popular culture, literacy, manuscript and print culture, as well as to those interested more generally in medieval and early modern society and culture.


Book
Studying early printed books, 1450-1800 : a practical guide
Author:
ISBN: 9781119049968 1119049962 9781119049975 1119049970 Year: 2019 Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. Wiley Blackwell

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

"Studying Early Printed Books, 1450 - 1800 offers a guide to the fascinating process of how books were printed in the first centuries of the press and shows how the mechanics of making books shapes how we read and understand them. The author offers an insightful overview of how books were made in the hand-press period and then includes an in-depth review of the specific aspects of the printing process. She addresses questions such as: How was paper made? What were different book formats? How did the press work? In addition, the text is filled with illustrative examples that demonstrate how understanding the early processes can be helpful to today's researchers. Studying Early Printed Books shows the connections between the material form of a book (what it looks like and how it was made), how a book conveys its meaning and how it is used by readers. The author helps readers navigate books by explaining how to tell which parts of a book are the result of early printing practices and which are a result of later changes. The text also offers guidance on: how to approach a book; how to read a catalog record; the difference between using digital facsimiles and books in-hand. This important guide: Reveals how books were made with the advent of the printing press and how they are understood today; offers information on how to use digital reproductions of early printed books as well as how to work in a rare books library; contains a useful glossary and a detailed list of recommended readings; [and] includes a companion website for further research. Written for students of book history, materiality of text and history of information, Studying Early Printed Books explores the many aspects of the early printing process of books and explains how their form is understood today." -- Publisher's description "The first part of the guide will provide an overview of printing a book, first describing the processes of making a book and then considering some of their consequences for the economics of book production. The second part of this guide will give more detailed information on these processes; readers might wish to read both parts simultaneously, moving from overview to detail as needed, or to read the overview and then proceed to details. I explain the technical terms being used as they come up, but there is also a glossary in Appendix 2 that will be of assistance"--


Multi
A companion to the early printed book in Britain, 1476 - 1558.
Authors: ---
ISBN: 9781843843634 9781782042099 9781843845362 1843843633 1843845369 1782042091 Year: 2014 Publisher: Woodbridge Boydell and Brewer

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The history of the book is now recognized as a field of central importance for understanding the cultural changes that swept through Tudor England. This companion aims to provide a comprehensive guide to the issues relevant to theearly printed book, covering the significant cultural, social and technological developments from 1476 (the introduction of printing to England) to 1558 (the death of Mary Tudor). Divided into thematic sections (the printed booktrade; the book as artefact; patrons, purchasers and producers; and the cultural capital of print), it considers the social, historical, and cultural context of the rise of print, with the problems as well as advantages of the transmission from manuscript to print. the printers of the period; the significant Latin trade and its effect on the English market; paper, types, bindings, and woodcuts and other decorative features which create the packaged book; and the main sponsors and consumers of the printed book: merchants, the lay clientele, secular and religious clergy, and the two Universities, as well as secular colleges and chantries. Further topics addressed include humanism, women translators, and the role of censorship and the continuity of Catholic publishing from that time. The book is completed with a chronology and detailed indices. Vincent Gillespie is J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford; Susan Powell held a Chair in Medieval Texts and Culture at the University of Salford, and is currently affiliated to the Universities of London and York. Contributors: Tamara Atkin, Alan Coates, Thomas Betteridge, Julia Boffey, James Clark, A.S.G. Edwards, Martha W. Driver, Mary Erler, Alexandra Gilespie, Vincent Gillespie, Andrew Hope, Brenda Hosington, Susan Powerll, Pamela Robinson, AnneF. Sutton, Daniel Wakelin, James Willoughby, Lucy Wooding


Book
The invention of the emblem book and the transmission of knowledge, ca. 1510-1610
Author:
ISBN: 9789004355255 9789004387256 9004355251 9004387250 Year: 2019 Volume: 295 36 Publisher: Leiden Brill

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This study reexamines the invention of the emblem book and discusses the novel textual and pictorial means that applied to the task of transmitting knowledge. It offers a fresh analysis of Alciato’s Emblematum liber, focusing on his poetics of the emblem, and on how he actually construed emblems. It demonstrates that the “father of emblematics” had vernacular forebears, most importantly Johann von Schwarzenberg who composed two illustrated emblem books between 1510 and 1520.The study sheds light on the early development of the Latin emblem book 1531–1610, with special emphasis on the invention of the emblematic commentary, on natural history, and on advanced methods of conveying emblematic knowledge, from Junius to Vaenius.


Book
The Scandal of Kabbalah
Author:
ISBN: 1283114992 9786613114990 1400840007 9781400840007 9781283114998 9780691145082 0691145083 0691162158 9780691162157 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The Scandal of Kabbalah is the first book about the origins of a culture war that began in early modern Europe and continues to this day: the debate between kabbalists and their critics on the nature of Judaism and the meaning of religious tradition. From its medieval beginnings as an esoteric form of Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah spread throughout the early modern world and became a central feature of Jewish life. Scholars have long studied the revolutionary impact of Kabbalah, but, as Yaacob Dweck argues, they have misunderstood the character and timing of opposition to it. Drawing on a range of previously unexamined sources, this book tells the story of the first criticism of Kabbalah, Ari Nohem, written by Leon Modena in Venice in 1639. In this scathing indictment of Venetian Jews who had embraced Kabbalah as an authentic form of ancient esotericism, Modena proved the recent origins of Kabbalah and sought to convince his readers to return to the spiritualized rationalism of Maimonides. The Scandal of Kabbalah examines the hallmarks of Jewish modernity displayed by Modena's attack--a critical analysis of sacred texts, skepticism about religious truths, and self-consciousness about the past--and shows how these qualities and the later history of his polemic challenge conventional understandings of the relationship between Kabbalah and modernity. Dweck argues that Kabbalah was the subject of critical inquiry in the very period it came to dominate Jewish life rather than centuries later as most scholars have thought.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Listing 1 - 10 of 11 << page
of 2
>>
Sort by