Print culture at the crossroads : the book and Central Europe Introduction: Towards a Literary Culture of Central Europe Howard Louthan Part 1. Confessional Diversity and the Book: A Hungarian and Transylvanian Case Study Hearing the Word of God : The Aural and Symbolic Presence of Bibles in Early Hungarian Speaking Calvinism Graeme Murdock The Ministers Reading List : Religious Books in the Libraries of Transylvanian Lutheran Clergy Maria Crăciun The Posthumous Reception of an Antitrinitarian Bishop at Home and Abroad : The Afterlife of György Enyedis Explicationes Borbála Lovas Books for Transylvanian Greek Catholics : Confessional Printing with Cross Confessional Sourcing Radu Nedici Liturgical Books after the Council of Trent : Implementation Innovation and the Formation of Local Tradition in the Habsburg Lands Marie Elizabeth Ducreux Part 2. The Renaissance World of Central Europe Making Erasmus Speak Czech : Female Patronage and Production of the 1533 Czech Translation of the New Testament Jan Volek Praise of Bohemian Folly : Context and Consequences of the Histories of Brother Jan Paleček Martina Pranic Cum imaginibus cum iconibus : Cataloguing Printed Images in Early Modern Libraries Magdalena Herman Early Modern Polish Travellers Purchasing Books in Italy : Ownership Evidence as a Source of Information Marianna Czapnik Facing the Turk in the Book Culture of Central Europe Zsuzsa Barbarics Hermanik Part 3. Martin Luther and the Book Reused Matrices Adopted Iconographies and Misleading Images : Woodcuts on the Title Pages of Luthers Early Sermons on the Sacraments Grażyna Jurkowlaniec The Lotter Printing Dynasty : Michael Lotter and Reformation Printing in Magdeburg Drew B. Thomas Mistaken Authorship : A Study of the First Edition and Reprints of the Pamphlet Ein Mandat Jesu Christi Jiří Černý The Dream of a Border Crossing Bible : A Study of Ungnad Trubar Vergerio Konzul and Their Co Workers Luka Ilić and Marija Wakounig The Reformation the Book and the Clergy : The Place of Holy Scripture in the Churches of the Duchy of Pomerania and Clerical Identity in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Maciej Ptaszyński Part 4. Local Communities and the Book Printing and Post Tridentine Catholicism in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth Magdalena Komorowska Buying Bound Books in Sixteenth Century Cracow : Using Inventories and Bindings to Uncover a Thriving Retail Market Katarzyna Płaszczyńska Herman Publishing Books in Early Modern Jewish Prague Olga Sixtová Printing of Learned Literature in Hebrew 1510 1630 : Toward a New Understanding of Early Modern Jewish Practices of Reading Pavel Sládek The Standard and the Exceptional in a Provincial Print Shop : The Case of Early Modern Oels Maria Piasecka Part 5. Print Culture in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Europe Trusting Facts Trusting People : Approbata Endorsements and Authoritative Knowledge in the Early Modern Jewish Book Trade Joshua Teplitsky The (Swéerts )Sporcks and Their Subjects : Local and Transcultural Printing and Distribution of Heterodox Books in Eighteenth Century Bohemia Veronika Čapská The Circulation of Jewish Esoteric Knowledge in Manuscript and Print : The Case of Early Modern East Central Europe Agata Paluch That Little Golden Book : Eastern Slavic Translations of the Imitation of Christ 1628 1799 Liudmyla Sharipova Epilogue: The Hand Press and Political Dissent : Forbidden Print in Central Europe 1800 1848 James M. Brophy. Print Culture at the Crossroads investigates how the spread of printing shaped a distinctive literary culture in Central Europe during the early modern period. Moving beyond the boundaries of the nation state twenty five scholars from over a dozen countries examine the role of the press in a region characterised by its many cultures languages religions and alphabets. Antitrinitarians Roman and Greek Catholics Calvinists Jews Lutherans and Orthodox Christians used the press to preserve and support their communities. By examining printing and patronage networks catalogues inventories woodblocks bindings and ownership marks this volume reveals a complicated web of connections linking printers and scholars Jews and Christians across Central Europe and beyond