Tudor Books and Readers. Cambridge Univ PrNew essays by expert historians of the book exploring all aspects of Tudor book culture.The consumption of books is closely intertwined with the material conditions of their production. The Tudor period saw both revolutionary progress in printing technology and the survival of traditional forms of communication from the manuscript era. Offering a comprehensive account of Tudor book culture, these new essays by experts in early book history consider the formative years of English printing; book format, marketing, and the reception of books; print, politics, and patronage; and connections between reading and religion.
They challenge the conventional view of the 1557 foundation of the Stationers' Company as an event that marks a shift between older and newer modes of book production, sale, and reading. More ▼ Statement of Responsibility: edited by John N. Title: Tudor books and readers materiality and the construction of meaning Contents: Introduction / John N. History of the book. The State of the Discipline: Booksellers and Their Customers: Some Reflections on Recent Research. Geographic Information Systems: A New Research Method for Book History. In their seminal work on book history, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin very aptly described the early spread of printing as the "geography of the book. " Their account appeared years before any means was available to relate effectively important spatial data with some or all of the other factors that book historians traditionally study. Beginning in the 1960s, however, new computer-based technology that deals with spatial data -- geographic information systems (GIS)--was developed, first by government agencies, then by private industry.
More recently, application of this technology has spread to the academy with increasing use by individual scholars. After three decades of development, GIS technology has evolved to a state where it can be employed to explore constructively the "geography of the book. " Computer-based Tools for Book History Historians face a wealth of data as they unravel the complexity of print culture.
An Introduction to Book History. This is a new journal for a new kind of history. Historians have always relied on documents to reconstruct the past, and perhaps for that reason they overlooked, until very recently, the history of documents themselves. American historiography began to turn in that direction in 1979, with the publication of Elizabeth Eisenstein's The Printing Press as an Agent of Change and Robert Darnton's The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie.
"Book history" is the least unsatisfactory name for this scholarly frontier, which is certainly not limited to books -- or to historians. Our field of play is the entire history of written communication: the creation, dissemination, and uses of script and print in any medium, including books, newspapers, periodicals, manuscripts, and ephemera. All of those constituencies have contributed to the accelerating growth of book history over the past twenty years. Very Necessary but Not Quite Sufficient: A Personal View of Quantitative Analysis in Book History.
On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goe. —John Donne, Satyre III Accounting for the Material Text Before one says anything else about book history, one should remind readers and practitioners alike that the subject is rooted in the material world. Textual or iconographic information is produced, processed, transmitted, received, and preserved by a series of physical acts on material objects within the real world.
This recognition is not new. Anglophone book history is based solidly on the great Anglo-American tradition of bibliography, and an important part of that is historical and enumerative bibliography. In book history the "case study" approach is interesting and important but, on its own, is not enough. A few years ago I was working on a now wholly obscure novelist and popular historian called Walter Besant.
Book Dedications and the Death of a Patron: The Memorial Engraving in Chapman's Homer. The death of a patron could be devastating. In early modern England, most writers depended upon the patronage of the nobility, as the numerous book dedications of the era bear witness. These dedications, whose pleadings for patronage, protection, and place we almost unthinkingly label "fulsome" and "sycophantic," can be difficult for us to take seriously today. Yet, considered as integral physical parts of the books in which they appeared, book dedications provide significant insights into the operations of the patronage system and the expectations early modern writers had of their readers.
Particularly rich opportunities for exploring how dedications frame their works arise in changes made following a patron's death, a situation that often forced former clients to confront anew the conventional language of their dedications.
Book history programs. Book History - Writing Print Cultures Past: Literary Criticism and Book History. The History of Visual Communication - The Printing Press. Incunabula An incunabulum is a book, single sheet, or image that was printed — not handwritten — before the year 1501 in Europe. These are usually very rare and fragile items whose nature can only be verified by experts. The origin of the word is the Latin incunabula for "swaddling clothes", used by extension for the infancy or early stages of something. The first recorded use of incunabula as a printing term is in a pamphlet by Bernard von Mallinckrodt, "Of the rise and progress of the typographic art", published in Cologne in 1639, which includes the phrase prima typographicae incunabula, "the first infancy of printing".
The term came to denote the printed books themselves from the late 17th century. There are two types of incunabula: the xylographic (made from a single carved or sculpted block for each page) and the typographic (made with movable type on a printing press in the style of Johann Gutenberg). Incunabula from Germany. Incunabula from Italy. Incunabula from France. The History of Visual Communication - The Art of the Book. Download slideshow >>> The Art of the Book Medieval Europe. One of the darkest periods known to mankind: Pestilence and plague, darkness and fear, witch-hunts and illiteracy roam the land. It is a world where most people seldom leave their place of birth for any distance longer than 10 miles, where few people even live beyond the age of 30.
In this inhospitable milieu, secluded in the scriptoria of cold monasteries, under the light of feeble oil lamps, mittened against the biting cold; some of the greatest book designers that ever lived, created some of the most beautiful books the world has ever seen. The colophons of the their creations are testimony to their short lives since most of the books that they worked upon were only completed in several of their brief lifetimes, one scribe replacing the other over decades. We call these beautiful books Illuminated Manuscripts. Illuminated manuscripts are the most common item to survive from the Middle Ages. The Chronicles of Hainaut.
Book history centers/schools. Book history courses. Book history books/articles. Printing History and Book Arts – Publications about the Newberry Library Collections. Bauer, Konrad Fredrich. “The John M. Wing Collection on the History of Printing.” De Gulden Passer 28 (1950): 44-56. Call number: this volume is not in Library’s holdings. Beers, James Wellington “Catalogs of the collection of shorthand books and magazines.” Unpublished, 1900-1949. Butler, Pierce. . — . — . — . —. “Calligraphy at the Library” A Newberry Newsletter 31 (1983): 3.
Clemens, Raymond and Timothy Graham. Dean, Susan, comp. De Hamel, Christopher and Joel Silver. Detterer, Ernst F. Gehl, Paul F. . — . — . — . — . —. Gehl, Paul F. and Elizabeth Zurawski. John M. John M. . —. Kramer, Sidney. Morison, Stanley. Nash, Ray. Newberry Library. . — . — . — . — . — . —
. — . —. Pierce Butler, comp. Samuels, Joel L. Sanders, Walter. Sotheby & Company. Stone, Herbert Stuart. . —. Stone, Herbert Stuart, Jr., Sidney Kramer, and Ernst F. Taylor, Archer. Wells, James M. . — . — . —. Yates, Dora A.
Humanism, Education, and Rhetoric. Since its founding in 1887, curators and librarians at the Newberry have consistently collected in depth on the rhetorical tradition that, by the late nineteenth century, was considered central to the intellectual history of Europe and the Americas. With roots in the educational program we now call humanism, most modern rhetoric depends on classical models rediscovered and reinvigorated during the Renaissance. The Newberry has a systematic collection of major and influential works in fields related to humanism, including especially classical literatures and languages; educational theory and practice; textbooks for teaching grammar, rhetoric, oratory, and composition; literary criticism; moral philosophy; linguistics and the history of languages.
The Newberry’s collections in these general humanistic and rhetorical fields are well complemented by particular strengths in certain genres: emblem books, handwriting books, and books of military architecture and music theory.
Exeter Working papers in Book History. Book history bibs. The Book Market. Introduction Markets are sites of communication. They create economic exchange relations and in doing so establish connections between people and separated places and, as a side-effect, initiate fruitful cultural contacts. This especially applies to the book market, since its commodities transport knowledge and values. This gives it a specific function in encouraging and integrating culture.
With regard to the book as a medium in distinction to other media (➔ Media Link #ac), reference to the book market is, however, more than a "publicist metaphor", especially viewed against a transnational European background. Finally, one should also examine the relation between the book market and history in a profounder sense.
Preliminary and early stages in Antiquity The development of advanced civilisations has always been connected with the use of writing. In ancient Rome, more highly developed forms of trading in books came about, to provide for both private and public libraries. Index of Christian Art: Conferences and Events. Upcoming Conferences Past Conferences and Events November 23rd, 2013 Delaware Valley Medieval Association - Meeting of November 23, 2013 October 25th and 26th, 2013 Manuscripta Illuminata - Approaches to Understanding Medieval & Renaissance Manuscript June 26th, 2013 The Digital World of Art History 2013: From Theory to Practice March 15th and 16th, 2013 Maps & Diagrams in Medieval Art October 5th and 6th, 2012 Medieval Patronage: Patronage, Power and Agency in Medieval Art July 12th, 2012 The Digital World of Art History May 7th, 2012 Ethiopians and Ambiguity in Late Medieval Art October 14th and 15th, 2011 Re-Defining Byzantium: Art and Thought in the Byzantine World March 17th and 18th, 2011 From Minor to Major: The Minor Arts and Their Current Status in Art History November 11th, 2010 Weaving the memory of a Celtic past: tales of Ireland in a treasured archive March 16th and 17th, 2010 Insular and Anglo-Saxon, Art and Thought in the Early Medieval Period October 24th, 2003 St.
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