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Scholarship, Commerce, Religion - The Learned Book in the Age of Confessions, 1560-1630 (Hardcover, New)
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Scholarship, Commerce, Religion - The Learned Book in the Age of Confessions, 1560-1630 (Hardcover, New)
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A decade ago in the Times Literary Supplement, Roderick Conway
Morris claimed that "almost everything that was going to happen in
book publishing-from pocket books, instant books and pirated books,
to the concept of author's copyright, company mergers, and
remainders-occurred during the early days of printing." Ian
Maclean's colorful survey of the flourishing learned book trade of
the late Renaissance brings this assertion to life. The story he
tells covers most of Europe, with Frankfurt and its Fair as the hub
of intellectual exchanges among scholars and of commercial dealings
among publishers. The three major religious confessions jostled for
position there, and this rivalry affected nearly all aspects of
learning. Few scholars were exempt from religious or financial
pressures. Maclean's chosen example is the literary agent and
representative of international Calvinism, Melchior Goldast von
Haiminsfeld, whose activities included opportunistic involvement in
the political disputes of the day. Maclean surveys the predicament
of underfunded authors, the activities of greedy publishing
entrepreneurs, the fitful interventions of regimes of censorship
and licensing, and the struggles faced by sellers and buyers to
achieve their ends in an increasingly overheated market. The story
ends with an account of the dramatic decline of the scholarly book
trade in the 1620s, and the connivance of humanist scholars in the
values of the commercial world through which they aspired to
international recognition. Their fate invites comparison with
today's writers of learned books, as they too come to terms with
new technologies and changing academic environments.
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