Scholarship, Commerce, Religion: The Learned Book in the Age of Confessions, 1560–1630 - Hardcover

Ian Maclean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674062086 ISBN 13: 9780674062085

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2012

Synopsis

The Learned Book in the Age of Confessions, 1560-1630

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Review:

Maclean's Scholarship, Commerce, Religion: The Learned Book in the Age of Confessions, 1560-1630 evokes a publishing world so different from the 21st century's that visiting it seems like a vacation from today's too-familiar circumstances...Drawing on publishers' catalogues, reports of the Frankfurt book fair (where the number of titles more than doubled between 1593 and 1613) and the records of titles found in scholars' libraries following their deaths, Maclean recreates something of the prevailing routines and difficulties of scholarly publishing in this era. --Scott McLemee Inside Higher Ed, May 2012

"Building on a lifetime's work on the intellectual history of the Renaissance and the transmission of knowledge...Maclean is uniquely placed to conduct a survey both wide in its sweep and densely descriptive in its detail." --Times Literary Supplement, October 2012

About the Author:

Ian Maclean is Titular Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Oxford.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0674062086
• ISBN 13: 9780674062085
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 392