Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe

Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe
Author: Benito Rial Costas
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2012-11-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004235752

Despite the fact that, if only by number, small and peripheral cities played an important role in fifteenth and sixteenth-century European print culture, book history has mainly been dominated by monographs on individual big book centres. Through a number of specific case studies, which deploy a variety of methods and a wide range of sources, this volume seeks to enhance our understanding of printing and the book trade in small and peripheral European cities in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and to emphasize the necessity of new research for the study of print culture in such cities.