Book gifts and cultural networks from the 14th to the16th century
By: Gabriele Müller-Oberhäuser (Ed.)
Contributors: Universität Münster. Sonderforschungsbereich 496--"Symbolische Kommunikation und gesellschaftliche Wertesysteme vom Mittelalter bis zur Französischen Revolution."
Edition: 1. Auflage.
Series: Symbolische Kommunikation und gesellschaftliche Wertesysteme - Schriftenreihe des Sonderforschungsbereichs 496 -- Band 41; Symbolische Kommunikation und gesellschaftliche Wertesysteme -- Bd. 41.
Publisher: Rhema
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Münster
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9783868870145
Subjects: Books; Congresses; History; Gifts; Presentation pieces (Gifts); Ceremonial exchange
Description: I. Practices of book-giving: secular and sacred. The book as dangerous gift? The evidence of 'heretical' texts in England / Anne Hudson ; Gifting and circulation of devotional works in Syon Abbey and its community / Ann Hutchison ; Mirrors for princes as book gifts in late medieval England / Ulrike Grassnick ; Representation - papal homage - discussion of reform: aspects of the Roman a cappella masses in the sixteenth and seventeenth century and their transmission in choir books / Daniel Glowotz ; Gift exchange at the French courts around 1400: manuscripts as gauges of social relations? / Jan Hirschbiegel ; Book gifts at the Burgundian-Habsburgian court / Hanno Wijsman ; "Deditissimus seruus": Jean Mallard's book presentations to Francis I, Henry VIII and others: their form and function / James Carley ; Au roy vrayement chrestien, Edvard: book gifts to Edward VI / Gabriele Müller-Oberhäuser ; Gift books for Queen Elizabeth I: court ceremony vs. the printing house / Jane Lawson - II. Book gifts and cultural networks: concepts and case studies. Introduction: cultural networks of the past / Tobias Budke ; Christine de Pizan's Epistre othea and the network of Stephen Scrope and Sir John Fastolf / Kerstin Meyer-Bialk ; chronicles and genealogies during the wars of the roses / Hayrie Salish ; Humanist printing networks: the Thomas More circle and John Rastell / Torsten Wieschen ; Re-forming connections: evangelicals and their book gifts between England and Europe / Tobias Budke ; Petruccio Ubaldini and network analysis: historical uses for a modern concept / Janika Bischof.
Notes: Proceedings of an international colloquium at the University of Münster in 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.