Print Culture In Early Modern France

Author : Carl Goldstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139505031

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Print Culture in Early Modern France by Carl Goldstein Pdf

In this book, Carl Goldstein examines the print culture of seventeenth-century France through a study of the career of Abraham Bosse, a well-known printmaker, book illustrator, and author of books and pamphlets on a variety of technical subjects. The consummate print professional, Bosse persistently explored the endless possibilities of print – single-sheet prints combining text and image, book illustration, broadsides, placards, almanacs, theses, and pamphlets. Bosse had a profound understanding of print technology as a fundamental agent of change. Unlike previous studies, which have largely focused on the printed word, this book demonstrates the extent to which the contributions of an individual printmaker and the visual image are fundamental to understanding the nature and development of early modern print culture.

Author : Roger Chartier
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691657073

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The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France by Roger Chartier Pdf

The first book-length presentation of Roger Chartier's work in English, this volume provides a vivid example of the new directions of cultural history in France. These essays probe the impact of printing on all social classes of the ancien regime and reveal the surprising range of ways in which texts and pictures were used by audiences with different levels of literacy. Professor Chartier demonstrates that those who attempted to regulate behavior and thought on behalf of church or state, for example, were well aware of the wide influence of the printed word. He finds fascinating evidence of fundamental processes of social control in texts such as the guides to a good death or the treatises on norms of civility, rules that originated at court but that were eventually appropriated in various forms by society as a whole. Essays on the evolution on the fete, on the cahiers de doleances of 1789, and on the early paperback genre known as the Bibliotheque bleue complete the picture of what people read and why and of what was published and what influenced the publishers. These essays offer a critical reappraisal of the complex connections between the new culture of print and the oral and ritual-oriented forms of traditional culture. The reader will discover essential patterns of the cultural evolution of France from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Roger Chartier is Director of Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Benito Rial Costas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004235755

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Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe by Benito Rial Costas Pdf

Despite the fact that, if only by number, small and peripheral cities played an important role in fifteenth and sixteenth-century European print culture, book history has mainly been dominated by monographs on individual big book centres. Through a number of specific case studies, which deploy a variety of methods and a wide range of sources, this volume seeks to enhance our understanding of printing and the book trade in small and peripheral European cities in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and to emphasize the necessity of new research for the study of print culture in such cities.

Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : 0804709726

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Society and Culture in Early Modern France by Natalie Zemon Davis Pdf

These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixteenth-century France. The result is a wide-ranging view of the lives and values of men and women (artisans, tradesmen, the poor) who, because they left little or nothing in writing, have hitherto had little attention from scholars. The first three essays consider the social, vocational, and sexual context of the Protestant Reformation, its consequences for urban women, and the new attitudes toward poverty shared by Catholic humanists and Protestants alike in sixteenth-century Lyon. The next three essays describe the links between festive play and youth groups, domestic dissent, and political criticism in town and country, the festive reversal of sex roles and political order, and the ritualistic and dramatic structure of religious riots. The final two essays discuss the impact of printing on the quasi-literate, and the collecting of common proverbs and medical folklore by learned students of the "people" during the Ancien Régime. The book includes eight pages of illustrations.

Author : Jane McLeod
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271037684

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Licensing Loyalty by Jane McLeod Pdf

"Explores the evolution of the idea that the rise of print culture was a threat to the royal government of eighteenth-century France. Argues that French printers did much to foster this view as they negotiated a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the state"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Carl Goldstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:851339916

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Print Culture in Early Modern France by Carl Goldstein Pdf

Author : Tim Somers
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781783275496

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Ephemeral Print Culture in Early Modern England by Tim Somers Pdf

Uses the collections of ephemera popular in the late seventeenth century as a way to understand the reading habits, publishing strategies and thought processes of late Stuart print culture. Cheap' genres of print such as ballads, almanacs and playing cards were part of everyday life in seventeenth-century society - ubiquitous and disposable. Toward the end of the century, however, individuals began to preserve, arrange and display articles of cheap print within carefully curated collections. What motivated this sudden urge to preserve the ephemeral? This book answers that question by analysing the social, political and intellectual factors behind the formation of cheap print collections, how these collections were used by their owners, and what this activity can tell us about 'print culture' in the early modern period. The book's central collector is John Bagford (1650-1715), a shoemaker who became a dealer of prints and other 'curiosities' to important collectors of the time such as Samuel Pepys, Hans Sloane and Robert Harley. Bagford's own rich and largely unstudied collection is afascinating study in its own right and his position at the centre of commercial and intellectual networks opens up a whole world of collecting. This world encompasses later Stuart partisan political culture, when modern parties and the 'public sphere' first emerged; the 'New Science' and 'virtuoso culture' with its milieu of natural philosophers, antiquaries and artisans; the aural and visual landscape of marketplaces, streets and alehouses; and developing practices of record-keeping, life-writing and historical writing during the long eighteenth century.

Author : Carl Goldstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1107012147

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Print Culture in Early Modern France by Carl Goldstein Pdf

In this book, Carl Goldstein examines the print culture of seventeenth-century France through a study of the career of Abraham Bosse, a well-known printmaker, book illustrator, and author of books and pamphlets on a variety of technical subjects. The consummate print professional, Bosse persistently explored the endless possibilities of print - single-sheet prints combining text and image, book illustration, broadsides, placards, almanacs, theses, and pamphlets. Bosse had a profound understanding of print technology as a fundamental agent of change. Unlike previous studies, which have largely focused on the printed word, this book demonstrates the extent to which the contributions of an individual printmaker and the visual image are fundamental to understanding the nature and development of early modern print culture.

Author : James R. Farr
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742557185

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The Work of France by James R. Farr Pdf

This clearly written and deeply informed book explores the nature and meaning of work in early modern France. Distinguished historian James R. Farr considers the relationship between material life—specifically the work activities of both men and women—and the culture in which these activities were embedded. This culture, he argues, helped shape the nature of work, invested it with meaning, and fashioned the identities of people across the social spectrum. Farr vividly traces the daily lives of peasants, common laborers, domestic servants, prostitutes, street vendors, craftsmen and -women, merchants, men of the law, medical practitioners, and government officials. Work was recognized and valued as a means to earn a living, but it held a greater significance as a cultural marker of honor, identity, and status. Constants and continuities in work activities and their cultural aspects shared space with changes that were so profound and sweeping that France would be forever transformed. The author focuses on three salient, interconnected, and at times conflicting developments: the extension and integration of the market economy, the growth of the state's functions and governing apparatus, and the intensification of social hierarchy. Presenting a unified and compelling argument about the role of labor in society, Farr addresses a complex set of questions and succeeds masterfully at answering them. With its stylish writing and clear themes, this book will find a broad audience among students and scholars of early modern Europe, French history, economics, gender studies, anthropology, and labor studies.

Author : Peter Frei,Nelly Labère
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000530438

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The Politics of Obscenity in the Age of the Gutenberg Revolution by Peter Frei,Nelly Labère Pdf

What does obscene mean? What does it have to say about the means through which meaning is produced and received in literary, artistic and, more broadly, social acts of representation and interaction? Early modern France and Europe faced these questions not only in regard to the political, religious and artistic reformations for which the Renaissance stands, but also in light of the reconfiguration of its mediasphere in the wake of the invention of the printing press. The Politics of Obscenity brings together researchers from Europe and the United States in offering scholars of early modern Europe a detailed understanding of the implications and the impact of obscene representations in their relationship to the Gutenberg Revolution which came to define Western modernity.

Author : Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521845432

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The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein Pdf

New illustrated and abridged edition surveys the communications revolution of the fifteenth century.

Author : Joan DeJean
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226141411

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The Reinvention of Obscenity by Joan DeJean Pdf

The concept of obscenity is an ancient one. But as Joan DeJean suggests, its modern form, the same version that today's politicians decry and savvy artists exploit, was invented in seventeenth-century France. The Reinvention of Obscenity casts a fresh light on the mythical link between sexual impropriety and things French. Exploring the complicity between censorship, print culture, and obscenity, DeJean argues that mass market printing and the first modern censorial machinery came into being at the very moment that obscenity was being reinvented—that is, transformed from a minor literary phenomenon into a threat to society. DeJean's principal case in this study is the career of Moliére, who cannily exploited the new link between indecency and female genitalia to found his career as a print author; the enormous scandal which followed his play L'école des femmes made him the first modern writer to have his sex life dissected in the press. Keenly alert to parallels with the currency of obscenity in contemporary America, The Reinvention of Obscenity will concern not only scholars of French history, but anyone interested in the intertwined histories of sex, publishing, and censorship.

Author : Roger Chartier
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781400860333

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The Culture of Print by Roger Chartier Pdf

The leading historians who are the authors of this work offer a highly original account of one of the most important transformations in Western culture: the change brought about by the discovery and development of printing in Europe. Focusing primarily on printed matter other than books, The Culture of Print emphasizes the specific and local contexts in which printed materials, such as broadsheets, flysheets, and posters, were used in modern Europe. The authors show that festive, ritual, cultic, civic, and pedagogic uses of print were social activities that involved deciphering texts in a collective way, with those who knew how to read leading those who did not. Only gradually did these collective forms of appropriation give way to a practice of reading--privately, silently, using the eyes alone--that has become common today. This wide-ranging work opens up new historical and methodological perspectives and will become a focal point of debate for historians and sociologists interested in the cultural transformations that accompanied the rise of modern societies. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Roger Chartier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608091081

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The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France by Roger Chartier Pdf

Author : Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1980-09-30
Category : Design
ISBN : 0521299551

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The Printing Press as an Agent of Change by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein Pdf

A full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change, first published in 1980.