Print and the Reformation: A Drama in Three Acts
Throughout the history of printing, questions of design have been crucial to the development of the book industry. This is especially the case with the development of the title page, the most crucial design feature for which there was no obvious model inherited from the manuscript book world. The Re...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2017]
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Church history
Year: 2017, Volume: 86, Issue: 4, Pages: 980-997 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Germany
/ Netherlands
/ Calvinism
/ Reformation
/ Book printing
/ History 1450-1650
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBB German language area KBD Benelux countries KDD Protestant Church |
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| Summary: | Throughout the history of printing, questions of design have been crucial to the development of the book industry. This is especially the case with the development of the title page, the most crucial design feature for which there was no obvious model inherited from the manuscript book world. The Reformation both revolutionized the market for books and stimulated crucial innovations in the design and selling of books. This began in Wittenberg, where the partnership of Martin Luther and Lucas Cranach played a critical role in shaping the Reformation pamphlet. In lands more hostile to the Reformation, the design task was more complex, since design features intended to facilitate identification could place the seller or owner in deadly danger. This essay concludes with an examination of the market for devotional literature in the Dutch Republic, the home to Europe's most buoyant center of book production. |
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| ISSN: | 1755-2613 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Church history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0009640717002116 |