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Commerce and Print in the Early Reformation
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Englisch
Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
2007
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Communications and the spread of nonconformist views were key to the spiritual upheaval that gripped many parts of northern Europe in the 1520s. Emphasising economic and cultural hegemony, this book explores the transmission of innovation through networks of trade. Interrelated themes include commercial typography, legal and illicit book distribution, espionage, and censorship. These are elaborated through a series of episodes involving printers and patrician oligarchs, spies and fugitives, and pamphleteers and entrepreneurs. The accent on commerce and print broadens the interpretive scope for study of the early Reformation beyond national, political, or exclusively religious contexts. It also leads to a reassessment of some conventional assumptions about merchants as distributors of Scripture texts and reformist propaganda.
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John D. Fudge is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh (PhD. 1989) and author of Cargoes, Embargoes, and Emissaries: The Commercial and Political Interaction of England and the German Hanse, 1450-1510 (Toronto, 1995). He lectures in European history at Corpus Christi College, Vancouver.
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eBook veröffentlicht am:
30. April 2007
eBook ISBN:
9789047419730
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Inhalt:
294
eBook ISBN:
9789047419730
Schlagwörter für dieses Buch
Reformation; commercial; typography; book; distribution; trade; networks; censorship
Zielgruppe(n) für dieses Buch
This book will appeal to readers interested in 16th-century print culture and the dissemination of early reformist literature. It is particularly relevant to Reformation studies and the history of trade and communications.
