Print and power in early modern Europe (1500-1800)

✍ Scribed by Nina Lamal; Jamie Cumby; Helmer J Helmers (eds.)

• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 461
• Series: Library of the written word, volume 92
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Print, in the early modern period, could make or break power. This volume addresses one of the most urgent and topical questions in early modern history: how did European authorities use a new medium with such tremendous potential? The eighteen contributors develop new perspectives on the relationship between the rise of print and the changing relationships between subjects and rulers by analysing print's role in early modern bureaucracy, the techniques of printed propaganda, genres and strategies of state communication. While print is often still thought of as an emancipating and destabilizing force of change in early modern societies, the resulting picture shows how instrumental print was in strengthening existing power structures

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Printing Press as an Agent
of Power
Part 1
Governing through Print
Chapter 1 Policing in Print: Social Control in Spanish
and Borromean Milan (1535–1584)
Chapter 2 On Printing and Decision-Making: The Management of Information by the City
Powers of Lyon (ca. 1550–ca. 1580)
Chapter 3 Printing for Central Authorities in the Early
Modern Low Countries (15th–17th Centuries)
Chapter 4 Rural Officials Discover the Printing Press
in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy
Part 2
Printing for Government
Chapter 5 Printing for the Reformation: The Canonical Documents of the Edwardian Church of England,
1547–1553
Chapter 6 Newspapers and Authorities in
Seventeenth-Century Germany
Chapter 7 The Politics of Print in the Dutch Golden Age:
The Ommelander Troubles (c. 1630–1680)
Part 3
Patronage and Prestige
Chapter 8 The Rise of the Stampatore Camerale: Printers
and Power in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome
Chapter 9 State and Church Sponsored Printing by Jan Januszowski and His Drukarnia Łazarzowa
(Officina Lazari) in Krakow
Chapter 10 Ferdinando de’ Medici and the Typographia
Medicea
Chapter 11 Royal Patronage of Illicit Print: Catherine of Braganza and Catholic Books
in Late Seventeenth-Century London
Part 4
Power of Persuasion
Chapter 12 The Papacy, Power, and Print: The Publication
of Papal Decrees in the First Fifty Years of Printing
Chapter 13 Pictures and Power: The Visual Prints
of Frans Hogenberg
Chapter 14 Collecting ‘Toute l’Angleterre’: English Books, Soft Power and Spanish Diplomacy at the Casa del Sol
(1613–1622)
Chapter 15 Prohibition as Propaganda Technique: The Case of the Pamphlet La couronne usurpée
et le prince supposé (1688)
Part 5
Religious Authority
Chapter 16 Illustrating Authority: The Creation and Reception
of an English Protestant Iconography
Chapter 17 Between Ego Documents and Anti-Catholic Propaganda: Printed Revocation Sermons in Seventeenth-Century Lutheran Germany
Chapter 18 Learned Servants: Dutch Ministers, Their Books and the Struggle for a Reformed Republic in the Dutch Golden Age
Index

✦ Subjects

Printing; Europe; History; Politics; Religion