Printers' Devices in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (eBook)

Iconographic Sources and Ideological Content

Justyna Kilianczyk-Zieba (Autor)

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2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-67960-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book discusses the printers' devices used in Poland-Lithuania in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The compositions that served to identify the products of individual printers are explored here as previously unacknowledged research material for cultural studies: they allow for the reconstruction of the mentality of contemporary printers as well as their co-workers and reading public. The book investigates relationships within early modern intellectual communities and shows that the textual and visual discourses of the printers' devices were pan-European, reflecting the networked communities of European centres of learning and commerce. It documents the broad range of the output of Polish-Lithuanian presses as well and is therefore also a study of book culture in a multinational and multilingual state, whose inheritance is poorly recognised internationally.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.3.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• ISBN-10: 90-04-67960-X / 900467960X
• ISBN-13: 978-90-04-67960-3 / 9789004679603