From Gutenberg to Luther: Transnational Print Cultures in Scandinavia 1450-1525: 37 (Library of the Written Word) - Hardcover

Undorf, Wolfgang

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004270574 ISBN 13: 9789004270572

Publisher: Brill, 2014

Synopsis

Printed book cultures in Scandinavia before 1525 were formed by their vicinity to expanding European book markets. Collections of prints were founded, decisions on printing books in Scandinavia were based upon thorough knowledge of what printers on the continent achieved in question of volume, quality and price. Building on a large database of contemporary provenances and statistical analyses of every possible aspect of peripheral book markets, as well as on new readings of many old and new sources, this book recalibrates scholarly looks on Scandinavian book history before the Reformation. The result is a fresh portrait of a dynamic period in cultural history which places Scandinavia, though in the geographical periphery of Europe, in the middle of European printing.

About this title

Product Description:

Based on thousands of contemporary provenances, statistics and book lists, this books achieves a repositioning of Scandinavian early modern print cultures as dynamic, self-confident actors in the multi-faceted transnational context of European book history.

About the Author:

Wolfgang Undorf, Ph.D. (2012) in Book History, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, is senior librarian and coordinator of old prints at The National Library of Sweden. He has published extensively on early modern book history, including the first national Swedish incunabula catalogue (2012).

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 9004270574
• ISBN 13: 9789004270572
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416