Jeroen Salman

Hannu Salmi

Massimo Rospocher

This volume explores the challenges and possibilities of research into the European dimensions of popular print culture. Popular print culture has traditionally been studied with a national focus. Recent research has revealed, however, that popular print culture has many European dimensions and shared features. A group of specialists in the field has started to explore the possibilities and challenges of research on a wide, European scale. This volume contains the first overview and analysis of the different approaches, methodologies and sources that will stimulate and facilitate future comparative research. This volume first addresses the benefits of a media-driven approach, focussing on processes of content recycling, interactions between text and image, processes of production and consumption. A second perspective illuminates the distribution and markets for popular print, discussing audiences, prices and collections. A third dimension refers to the transnational dimensions of genres, stories, and narratives. A last perspective unravels the communicative strategies and dynamics behind European bestsellers. This book is a source of inspiration for everyone who is interested in research into transnational cultural exchange and in the fascinating history of popular print culture in Europe.

Popular Print in Europe (1450–1900)

Crossing Borders, Crossing Cultures

This volume explores the challenges and possibilities of research into the European dimensions of popular print culture.Popular print culture has traditionally been studied with a national focus. Recent research has revealed, however, that popular print culture has many European dimensions and shared features. A group of specialists in the field has started to explore the possibilities and challenges of research on a wide, European scale. This volume contains the first overview and analysis of the different approaches, methodologies and sources that will stimulate and facilitate future comparative research.This volume first addresses the benefits of a media-driven approach, focussing on processes of content recycling, interactions between text and image, processes of production and consumption. A second perspective illuminates the distribution and markets for popular print, discussing audiences, prices and collections. A third dimension refers to the transnational dimensions of genres, stories, and narratives. A last perspective unravels the communicative strategies and dynamics behind European bestsellers.This book is a source of inspiration for everyone who is interested in research into transnational cultural exchange and in the fascinating history of popular print culture in Europe.

This book studies the itinerant book trade in an English and Dutch, urban context, leading to a new perspective on the role of the pedlars as an intermediary between the established booksellers and an extensive, socially diverse reading public.

Itinerant Distribution Networks in England and the Netherlands 1600-1850

Pedlars and the Popular Press

Dat populair drukwerk een rijke bron is voor mentaliteitshistorisch onderzoek wordt zelden betwist. Wel is de opvatting dat de inhoud van goedkope boekjes en pamfletten simpelweg het wereldbeeld van het gewone volk weerspiegelt, inmiddels naar het rijk der fabelen verwezen. Populair drukwerk kan pas optimaal als bron worden benut, als we haar sociaal-economische en culturele betekenis in de samenleving waarin het circuleerde hebben vastgesteld. In Populair drukwerk in de Gouden Eeuw. De almanak als handelswaar en lectuur, wordt op basis van dit wetenschappelijke inzicht de Nederlandse almanak in de periode 1570-1705 voor het eerst uitputtend beschreven. In Deel I gaat het om de almanak als lectuur en vindt een analyse van de inhoud en de functies plaats. Er wordt uitvoerig ingegaan op de thema's astrologie, astrologische geneeskunde, religie, geschiedschrijving, vermaaksliteratuur en praktische informatie. In Deel II, waarin de almanak als handelswaar wordt beschreven, staan de makers, verspreiders en kopers van dit drukwerk centraal. In beide delen vormen de vier belangrijke productiecentra Deventer, Amsterdam, Utrecht en Leeuwarden de spil van het betoog. Dit boek maakt de lezer bewust van het feit dat de Nederlandse drukpers in de Gouden Eeuw niet alleen monumentale drukwerken heeft voortgebracht, maar ook massadrukwerk als almanakken produceerde en daarmee de leef- en denkwereld van grote groepen mensen mede vormgaf.

De almanak als lectuur en handelswaar

Populair drukwerk in de Gouden Eeuw

Joad Raymond

Roeland Harms

This collection explores the surprising ways by which cheap print moved across Europe, focussing on Italy, the Netherlands and Britain. Looking at pedlars, commerce and communication, it presents a model of textual dissemination and the material and economic premises of European landscapes of print.

The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

Not Dead Things

Daniel Bellingradt

Paul Nelles

This book presents and explores a challenging new approach in book history. It offers a coherent volume of thirteen chapters in the field of early modern book history covering a wide range of topics and it is written by renowned scholars in the field. The rationale and content of this volume will revitalize the theoretical and methodological debate in book history. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the field of early modern book history as well as in a range of other disciplines. It offers book historians an innovative methodological approach on the life cycle of books in and outside Europe. It is also highly relevant for social-economic and cultural historians because of the focus on the commercial, legal, spatial, material and social aspects of book culture. Scholars that are interested in the history of science, ideas and news will find several chapters dedicated to the production, circulation and consumption of knowledge and news media.

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