Learning and the Market Place

Ian Maclean is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Oxford, and Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College. He has published extensively on intellectual life in Early Modern Europe, including studies on Montaigne, Cardano, and the higher faculties of law and medicine.

• Introduction1.The market for scholarly books and conceptions of genre in Northern Europe, 1570-16302.The readership of philosophical fictions: the bibliographical evidence3.Mediations of Zabarella in Northern Europe, 1586-16234.The diffusion of learned medicine in the sixteenth century through the printed book5.The reception of medieval practical medicine in the sixteenth century: the case of Arnau de Vilanova6.Melanchthon at the book fairs, 1560-1601: editors, markets and religious strife7.Cardano and his publishers, 1538-16638.André Wechel at Frankfurt, 1572-15819.Murder, debt, and retribution in the Italico-Hispanico-French book trade: the Beraud affair, 1586-9110.Competitors or collaborators? Sebastian Gryphius and his colleagues in Lyon, 1528-5611.Alberico Gentili, his publishers, and the vagaries of the English Book trade with the Continent, 1580-161412.English Books on the Continent, 1570-163013.Lusitani periti: Portuguese medical authors, national identity and bibliography in the late Renaissance14.Louis Jacob de Saint-Charles (1608-70) and the development of specialist bibliographyIndex