Print and power in early modern Europe (1500-1800)
"Print, in the early modern period, could make or break power. This volume addresses one of the most urgent and topical questions in early modern history: how did European authorities use a new medium with such tremendous potential? The eighteen contributors develop new perspectives on the rela...
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2021, [2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Printing Press as an Agent of Power / Helmer Helmers, Nina Lamal and Jamie Cumby
- Part 1: Governing through Print
- Policing in Print: Social Control in Spanish and Borromean Milan (1535-1584) / Rachel Midura
- On Printing and Decision-Making: The Management of Information by the City Powers of Lyon (ca. 1550-ca. 1580) / Gautier Mingous
- Printing for Central Authorities in the Early Modern Low Countries (15th-17th Centuries) / Renaud Adam
- Rural Officials Discover the Printing Press in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy / Andreas Golob
- Part 2: Printing for Government
- Printing for the Reformation: The Canonical Documents of the Edwardian Church of England, 1547-1553 / Celyn Richards
- Newspapers and Authorities in Seventeenth-Century Germany / Jan Hillgärtner
- The Politics of Print in the Dutch Golden Age: The Ommelander Troubles (c. 1630-1680) / Arthur der Weduwen
- Part 3: Patronage and Prestige
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- The Rise of the Stampatore Camerale: Printers and Power in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome / Paolo Sachet
- State and Church Sponsored Printing by Jan Januszowski and His Drukarnia Łazarzowa (Officina Lazari) in Krakow / Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba
- Ferdinando de'Medici and the Typographia Medicea / Caren Reimann
- Royal Patronage of Illicit Print: Catherine of Braganza and Catholic Books in Late Seventeenth-Century London / Chelsea Reutcke
- Part 4: Power of Persuasion
- The Papacy, Power, and Print: The Publication of Papal Decrees in the First Fifty Years of Printing / Margaret Meserve
- The Power of the Image: The Visual Prints of Frans Hogenberg / Ramon Voges
- Collecting 'Toute l'Angleterre': English Books, Soft Power and Spanish Diplomacy at the Casa del Sol (1613-1622) / Ernesto Oyarbide
- Prohibition as Propaganda Technique: The Case of the Pamphlet Lacouronne usurpee et le prince supposé (1688) / Rindert Jagersma
- Part 5: Relgious Authority
- Illustrating Authority: The Creation and Reception of an English Protestant Iconography / Nora Epstein
- Between Ego Documents and Anti-Catholic Propaganda: Printed Revocation Sermons in Seventeenth-Century Lutheran Germany / Martin Christ
- Learned Servants: Dutch Ministers, Their Books and the Struggle for a Reformed Republic in the Dutch Golden Age / Forrest C. Strickland