Learning and the market place
Subtitle: essays in the history of the early modern book
By: by Ian Maclean.
Series: Library of the written word -- v. 9; Handpress world -- v. 6
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 457
ISBN-13: 9789004175501
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The market for scholarly books and conceptions of genre in Northern Europe, 1570-1630; title: The readership of philosophical fictions in France in the sixteenth century : the bibliographical evidence; title: Mediations of Zabarella in northern Germany, 1586-1623; title: The diffusion of learned medicine in the sixteenth century through the printed book; title: The reception of medieval practical medicine in the sixteenth century : the case of Arnau de Vilanova; title: Melanchthon at the book fairs, 1560-1601 : editors, markets, and religious strife; title: Cardano and his publishers, 1534-1663; title: Andre Wechel at Frankfurt, 1572-1581; title: Murder, debt, and retribution in the Italico-Franco-Spanish book trade : the Beraud-Michel Ruiz affair, 1586-91; title: Competitors or collaborators? : Sebastian Gryphius and his colleagues (1528-1556); title: Alberico Gentili, his publishers, and the vagaries of the book trade between England and Germany, 1580-1614; title: English books on the continent, 1570-1630; title: Lusitani periti : Portuguese medical authors, national identity, and bibliography in the late Renaissance; title: Louis Jacob de Saint-Charles (1608-1670) and the development of specialist bibliography.