Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe

Daniel Bellingradt is Professor of Book Studies at Erlangen-Nuremberg University, Germany, and is co-editor of the German Yearbook for the History of Communications.Paul Nelles is Associate Professor of Early Modern European History at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and has recently published Cosas y Cartas: Scribal Production and Material Pathways in Jesuit Global Communications (1547-1573) (2015).Jeroen Salman is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, Netherlands, and is co-editor of a Dutch book historical series (BGNB).

• Chapter 1. Introduction - Books and Book History in Motion: Materiality, Sociality and Spaciality; Daniel Bellingradt and Jeroen Salman.- PART I: BEYOND PRODUCTION.- Chapter 2. Promoting the Counter-Reformation in Provincial France; Malcolm Walsby.- Chapter 3. Conrad Gessner and the Mobility of the Book; Paul Nelles.- Chapter 4. Paper Networks and the Book Industry; Daniel Bellingradt.- Chapter 5. Marketing a New Legal Code in Fifteenth Century Castile; Benito Rial Costas.- PART II: BEYOND CIRCULATION.- Chapter 6. Links between Newspapers and Books; Andreas Golob.- Chapter 7. Publishers, Editors, and Artists in the Marketing of News in the Dutch Republic circa 1700;  Joop W. Koopmans.- Chapter 8. The Battle of Medical Books;  Jeroen Salman.- Chapter 9. What killed Théodore Rilliet de Saussure?; Mark Curran.- PART III: BEYOND CONSUMPTION.- Chapter 10. Reading Strategies inScotland circa 1750–1820; Vivienne Dunstan.- Chapter 11. Italian Books and French Medical Libraries in the Renaissance; Shanti Graheli.- Chapter 12. Printed in Europe, consumed in Ottoman lands; Geoffrey Roper.- Epilogue: Matter, Sociability and Space; Joad Raymond.