When Greece Flew Across the Alps

When Greece Flew Across the Alps
Author: Federica Ciccolella
Publisher: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-11-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9789004179424

"The twelve essays contained in When Greece Flew Across the Alps provide a reconstruction of the status of Greek studies in the vast area lying between Spain and Russia, Austria and the Scandinavian Peninsula, between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. Although closely related to the revival of Greek studies in fifteenth-century Italy, European Hellenism acquired distinctive peculiarities thanks to the influence of the Reformation, the advent and spread of printing, and initiatives taken by individuals or institutions. By analyzing this important aspect of the reception of the Classics, this volume contributes to a better understanding of early modern European culture. Contributors include: Ovanes Akopyan, Johanna Akujärvi, Gianmario Cattaneo, Federica Ciccolella, Natasha Constantinidou, Iulian Mihai Damian, Christian Gastgeber, Tua Korhonen, Han Lamers, Marianne Pade, Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Luigi-Alberto Sanchi, and Raf Van Rooy"--

Lost Books

Lost Books
Author: Flavia Bruni
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 541
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004311823

Questions of survival and loss bedevil the study of early printed books. Many early publications are not particularly rare, but many have disappeared altogether. Here leading specialists in the field explore different strategies for recovering this lost world of print.

A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts

A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts
Author: Mark Bland
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2013-03-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1118653998

A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts provides an introduction to the language and concepts employed in bibliographical studies and textual scholarship as they pertain to early modern manuscripts and printed texts Winner, Honourable Mention for Literature, Language and Linguistics, American Publishers Prose Awards, 2010 Based almost exclusively on new primary research Explains the complex process of viewing documents as artefacts, showing readers how to describe documents properly and how to read their physical properties Demonstrates how to use the information gleaned as a tool for studying the transmission of literary documents Makes clear why such matters are important and the purposes to which such information is put Features illustrations that are carefully chosen for their unfamiliarity in order to keep the discussion fresh

John Gower in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books

John Gower in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
Author: Martha W. Driver
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2020
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1843845539

Essays considering the relationship between Gower's texts and the physical ways in which they were first manifested.

Early Modern Catholicism and the Printed Book

Early Modern Catholicism and the Printed Book
Author: Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2024-02-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004538674

This collection of essays engages with a variety of aspects of early modern book culture in the 16th-17th centuries, considered in the Catholic context. The contributions reflect on the engagement of institutions and authorities in the process of book production, bringing to the fore the role of networks in this process; show the book as a tool of resistance to the Protestant Reformation; give insight into the content and design of book collections; showcase textual production in the context of cultural appropriation and shed light on the role of the image in the propagation of Catholicism. Together the sixteen contributions demonstrate the diversity of the Catholic book in its forms and functions, in various social and national contexts.