Lay Culture, Learned Culture: Books and Social Change in Strasbourg, 1480-1599

Chrisman, Miriam Usher

ISBN 10: 0300025300 ISBN 13: 9780300025309

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1982

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Scholarly study of intellectual life in Europe during the Reformation, based on analysis of books published in Strasbourg (of which a separate bibliography by the author was published), which reveal a division between learned culture, which read scholarly books in Latin, and a burgeoning lay culture, which, served by a growing secular publishing industry, read books in the vernacular, often on humanistic & historical topics. Chrisman was an influential scholar of the Reformation in Germany and Strasbourg in particular. First edition, INSCRIBED by the author to cartographer & geographer David Woodward. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book; jacket shows light rubbing, edgewear, small chip to upper front panel. Text clean; xxx, 401 pages; index, bibliography, notes, appendix on data collection, figures, b/w plates, tables. Size: Large Octavo. Seller Inventory # v0168

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Title: Lay Culture, Learned Culture: Books and ...

Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven & London

Publication Date: 1982

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Signed: Inscribed by the Author

Edition: First Edition.

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