Book Triumphant

Malcolm Walsby, Ph.D. (2001) in History, is a lecturer at the University of St Andrews and manager of the USTC. He is the author of The Counts of Laval. Culture, Patronage and Religion (Ashgate, 2007) and The Printed Book in Brittany, 1480-1600 (Brill, 2011).Graeme Kemp is a postdoctoral fellow on a project examining the history of mathematics, a collaborative venture between the University of Southern California and the University of St Andrews. He has worked on a range of bibliographic and historical projects.

• PrefaceNotes on contributorsPART ONETHE BOOK IN NATIONAL CONTEXTS1.Printing in the Low Countries in the Early Sixteenth CenturyAndrew Pettegree2.The Italian Book: Catalogue, Censuses and Survival Neil Harris3.How Complete Are the German National Bibliographies for the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (VD16 and VD17) ?Jürgen Beyer4.The Printed Book on the Iberian Peninsula, 1500-1540 Alexander Wilkinson5.The Vanishing Press: Printing in Provincial France in the Early Sixteenth CenturyMalcolm WalsbyPART TWOPRINTING AND THE REFORMATION6.Turning Luther’s Weapons against him. The Birth of Catholic Propaganda in Saxony in the 1520sChristoph Volkmar7.Preaching and Printing in Germany on the Eve of the Thirty Years’ WarAmy Nelson Burnett8.Pamphlets in the Theological Debates of the Later Sixteenth Century: The Mainz Editorial Project “Controversia et Confessio” Johannes Hund and Henning P. Jürgens9.Devices of Protestant Printers in the Sixteenth CenturyJustyna Kiliańczyk-ZiębaPART THREETRANSMISSION AND TRANSLATIONS10.History in Transition: Enguerrand de Monstrelet’s Chroniques in Manuscript and Print (c.1450-c.1600)Hanno Wijsman11.The ‘Renaissance Cultural Crossroads’ Catalogue: A Witness to the Importance of Translation in Early Modern BritainBrenda M. Hosington12.Between Basel and Zürich: Humanist Rivalries and the Works of Sebastian Münster Matthew McLeanPART FOURNETWORKS AND THE BOOK TRADE13.The Book- and Reading-Culture in Basle and Zurich During the Sixteenth Century Urs B. Leu14.Augsburg’s Position in the System of the German Book Trade in the First Half of the Sixteenth CenturyHans-Jörg Künast15.Book Trade Practices in Early Sixteenth-Century Paris: Pierre Vidoue (1516–1543)David J. Shaw16.The Coexistence of Manuscript and Print: Handwritten Newsletters in the Second Century of Print, 1540-1640Zsuzsa Barbarics-HermanikIndex

"The Book Triumphant is a valuable guide to the increasing importance of the printed book in sixteenth-century Europe." – Eric N. Lindquist, University of Maryland, in: Renaissance Quarterly 65/4 (Winter 2012), pp. 1281-1283