Editors: Ann-Marie Hansen  and Arthur der Weduwen This edited volume explores the development of the European book world between 1650 and 1750, concentrating on changes in publishing strategies, practices of censorship, the circulation of second-hand books and the building of libraries. Its essays discuss this critical, but much neglected period of print history through case studies from Spain, Italy, France, the Holy Roman Empire, Britain and the Netherlands. Ranging from the posthumous publication of Galileo to the regulation of the book auction market, this volume demonstrates that the century between 1650 and 1750 was a transformative period for the history of

ieter Ackerman & Hugo Vanheeswijck (eds.) (Leuven Chinese Studies XLVI) Leuven, 2024, 376page, EUR 40,00 Language: English ISBN: 978-9492768- 162 From August 24th to August 27th 2021, the 14th International Conference of the Verbiest Institute KU Leuven took place. Due to the corona pandemic, scholars met online. This book gathers the papers presented during the conference, related to missionary history. Central in this conference was the idea that the term Mission contains much more than missionaries preaching the Gospel and baptizing. It includes exchange of values in the field of religion, culture, art,  … It is about people enriching each other mutually with human values, people

Albrecht Dürer’s depictions of Muslim figures and subjects are considered by many to be among his most perplexing images. This confusion arises from the assumption that the artist and his northern European contemporaries regarded the Muslim Levant as an exotic faraway land inhabited by hostile adversaries, not a region of neighboring empires affiliated through political and mercantile networks. Susan Dackerman casts Dürer’s art in an entirely new light, focusing on prints that portray cooperation between the Muslim and Christian worlds rather than conflict and war, enabling us to better understand early modern Europe through its visual culture. In this beautifully

This edited volume explores the development of the European book world between 1650 and 1750, concentrating on changes in publishing strategies, practices of censorship, the circulation of second-hand books and the building of libraries. Its essays discuss this critical, but much neglected period of print history through case studies from Spain, Italy, France, the Holy Roman Empire, Britain and the Netherlands. Ranging from the posthumous publication of Galileo to the regulation of the book auction market, this volume demonstrates that the century between 1650 and 1750 was a transformative period for the history of the printed book.See Less Copyright Year:  2024