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This book examines commercial and personal connections in the early
modern book trade in Paris and northwestern France, ca. 1450-1550.
The book market, commercial trade, and geo-political ties connected
the towns of Paris, Caen, Angers, Rennes, and Nantes, making this a
fertile area for the transference of different fields of knowledge
via book culture. Diane Booton investigates various aspects of book
production (typography and illustration), market (publishers and
booksellers), and ownership (buyers and annotators) and describes
commercial and intellectual dissemination via established pathways,
drawing on primary and archival sources.
This book examines commercial and personal connections in the early
modern book trade in Paris and northwestern France, ca. 1450-1550.
The book market, commercial trade, and geo-political ties connected
the towns of Paris, Caen, Angers, Rennes, and Nantes, making this a
fertile area for the transference of different fields of knowledge
via book culture. Diane Booton investigates various aspects of book
production (typography and illustration), market (publishers and
booksellers), and ownership (buyers and annotators) and describes
commercial and intellectual dissemination via established pathways,
drawing on primary and archival sources.
Manuscripts, Market and the Transition to Print in Late Medieval
Brittany surveys the production and marketing of non-monastic
manuscripts and printed books over 150 years in late medieval
Brittany, from the accession of the Montfort family to the ducal
crown in 1364 to the duchy's formal assimilation by France in 1532.
Brittany, as elsewhere, experienced the shift of manuscript
production from monasteries to lay scriptoria and from rural
settings to urban centers, as the motivation for copying the word
in ink on parchment evolved from divine meditation to personal
profit. Through her analysis of the physical aspects of Breton
manuscripts and books, parchment and paper, textual layouts,
scripts and typography, illumination and illustration, Diane Booton
exposes previously unexplored connections between the tangible
cultural artifacts and the society that produced, acquired and
valued them. Innovatively, Booton's discussion incorporates
archival research into the prices, wages and commissions associated
with the manufacture of the works under discussion to shed new
light on their economic and personal value.
A queen who helped define the cultural landscape of her era. As
duchess of Brittany [1491-1514] and twice queen of France [1491-98;
1498-1514], Anne de Bretagne set a benchmark by which to measure
the status of female authority in Europe at the dawn of the
Renaissance. Although at times a traditional political pawn, when
men who ruled her life were involved in reshaping European
alliances, Anne was directly or indirectly involved with the
principal political and religious European leaders of her time and
helped define the cultural landscape of her era. Taking a variety
of cross-disciplinary perspectives, these ten essays by art
historians, literary specialists, historians, and political
scientists contribute to the ongoing discussion ofAnne de Bretagne
and seek to prompt further investigations into her cultural and
political impact. At the same time, they offer insight of a broader
nature into related areas of intellectual interest - patronage, the
history of the book, the power and definition of queenship and the
interpretation of politico-cultural documents and court spectacles
- thereby confirming the extensive nature of Anne's legacy. CYNTHIA
J. BROWN is Professor of French at the University of California,
Santa Barbara.
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