Title Learning and the market place : essays in the history of the early modern book / by Ian Maclean

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 457 pages) : illustrations Series Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; v. 9. The handpress world ; v. 6 Library of the written word ; 9. Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 6. Contents The market for scholarly books and conceptions of genre in Northern Europe, 1570-1630 -- The readership of philosophical fictions in France in the sixteenth century : the bibliographical evidence -- Mediations of Zabarella in northern Germany, 1586-1623 -- The diffusion of learned medicine in the sixteenth century through the printed book -- The reception of medieval practical medicine in the sixteenth century : the case of Arnau de Vilanova -- Melanchthon at the book fairs, 1560-1601 : editors, markets and religious strife -- Cardano and his publishers, 1534-1663 -- André Wechel at Frankfurt, 1572-1581 -- Murder, debt and retribution in the Italico-Franco-Spanish book trade : the Beraud-Michel-Ruiz affair, 1586-1591 -- Competitors or collaborators? Sebastian Gryphius and his colleagues in Lyon, 1528-1556 -- Alberico Gentili, his publishers, and the vagaries of the book trade between England and Germany, 1580-1614 -- English books on the continent, 1570-1630 -- 'Lusitani periti' : Portuguese medical authors, national identity and bibliography in the late Renaissance -- Louis Jacob de Saint-Charles (1608-1670) and the development of specialist bibliography Summary These essays on the learned book in Early Modern Europe investigate the transmission of knowledge and the operation of the book market from the point of view of its major participants: authors, editors, publishers, readers and bibliographers Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Book industries and trade -- Europe -- History -- 16th century Book industries and trade -- Europe -- History -- 17th century Publishers and publishing -- Europe -- History -- 16th century Publishers and publishing -- Europe -- History -- 17th century Communication in learning and scholarship -- Europe -- History -- 16th century Communication in learning and scholarship -- Europe -- History -- 17th century BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce. Book industries and trade Communication in learning and scholarship Publishers and publishing Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9789047428947 9047428943 9789004175501 9004175504 1282401165 9781282401167 9786612401169 6612401168

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