Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe. Beyond Production, Circulation and Consumption, edited by D. Bellingradt, P. Nelles, and J. Salman (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke 2017). Series "New Directions in Book History" (original) (raw)

Daniel Bellingradt / Jeroen Salman: Books and Book History in Motion. Materiality, sociality and spatiality, in: Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe. Beyond Production, Circulation and Consumption, eds. Daniel Bellingradt, Jeroen Salman, Paul Nelles, Basingstoke 2017, 1-11.

2017

This is the uncorrected proof of the introduction chapter of Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe. Beyond Production, Circulation and Consumption, eds. Daniel Bellingradt, Jeroen Salman, Paul Nelles, Basingstoke 2017. https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319533650

Conference Report: Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe. Beyond Production, Circulation and Consumption

More than thirty years ago, Robert Darnton's seminal study 'What is the History of the Book'[1] established a model for the study of networks of production, and the circulation and consumption of books in the Early Modern period. To develop this model, forty scholars in book history met for an international three-day conference titled 'Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe. Beyond Production, Circulation and Consumption' at Friedenstein Palace in Gotha (Thuringia, Germany). The aim of the conference was to critically discuss and open up new perspectives for Darnton's model.

Cultural Circulation and the Book: Literature, Knowledge, Space, and Economy (An Introduction)

Primerjalna književnost 35.1 (2012), 2012

The book as a cultural object of special value co-determines literariness through the linguistic structure of the texts it transmits and the bibliographic codes specific to it as a medium. The book influences the social circulation of discourse and its genre differentiation and systematization. The conceptual and spatial structure of knowledge is materialized in the library (book repository or book series). Libraries are meeting places and crossroads of “bibliomigrancy” (Mani) of works having various geographical and historical origins as well as the places that allow us to establish cognitive and creative interferences between cultural spaces inscribed in the library holdings. Books evoke a variety of imaginary spatial models, including the global, while their own spaces are also physical and meaningful. From its beginnings up to the present expansion of digital textuality, the medium of the book appears in the context of economies, which set the direction and breadth of the spatial reach of the messages it transmits and encodes. Book history is therefore a field that lies within the interest of comparative literature.

Printers, Publishers, and Sellers: Actors in the Process of Consolidation of Epistemic Communities in the Early Modern Academic World

Springer eBooks, 2022

This chapter proposes a global view of the set of dynamics of interplay that were generated in the early modern publishing sector around a single astronomical work, the Tractatus de sphaera by Johannes de Sacrobosco. The Sphaera, a thirteenth-century tract of geocentric cosmology, rather than remaining a static text, became over the centuries a multiauthored dynamic textual tradition. This essay argues that publishers, printers, and booksellers had a fair share of agency not only in perpetuating but also in shaping the evolution of this long-lasting textual tradition. The present essay traces the ways this agency was configured.

Scientific Reassessment of the Publishing Evolution: А Media-Archaeological Approach to Prospective Studies of Book as Medium

Media Education, 2019

Published Reference (Suggested Bibliographic Citation): Tsvetkova, Milena. Scientific Reassessment of the Publishing Evolution: А Media-Archaeological Approach to Prospective Studies of Book as Medium. In: Media Education (Mediaobrazovanie), 2019, Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 143–158. DOI: 10.13187/me.2019.1.143. ISSN 1994-4160, e-ISSN 1994-4195 ABSTRACT: Modern media are characterized by extraordinary diversification and derivatisation. Multimodality has become central to all factors of the communication process-sources, codes, messages, channels and networks, intermediaries and agents, as well as end recipients. The most serious collisions occur in the field of publishing and books. Object of the research: A formal reason for this article is the 550 th anniversary from the death of Johannes Gutenberg (ca. 1400-1468) used to reexamine and redefine the book as the oldest and, at the same time, most promising media in the world of publishing. Purpose of the research: To revise the periodisation of the publishing evolution outside the four phases of the 560-year biography of the print format of the book: incunables or early-printed books, post-incunables or first-printed books, old-printed books, and new-printed books or contemporary printed books. Methodology/approach: The archaeological approach to the study of media reveals larger-scale reasoning behind the evolution of the book as a medium: Pre-Gutenberg, Gutenberg and Post-Gutenberg book. Results: Each of the three phases is governed by five principles that also preempt the future of the print medium in the 21 st century: the principle of bureaucracy, the principle of antagonism, the principle of fanaticism, the principle of emancipation and the principle of "form follows function". The perspective of media archaeology helps to correct the historical place and the evolutionary stance of the inventions pertaining to the Gutenberg Galaxy-the print medium, the printing press, the printed book, and paper as a printing resource. Implications: The conclusions may prove important for outlining the technological and ideological patterns affecting the invention and decline not only of the printed book but of every publication format before and after Gutenberg.

The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice

2014

As a vital field of scholarship, book history has now reached a stage of maturity where its early work can be reassessed and built upon. That is the goal of New Directions in Book History. This series will publish monographs in English that employ advanced methods and open up new frontiers in research, written by younger, mid-career, and senior scholars. Its scope is global, extending to the Western and non-Western worlds and to all historical periods from antiquity to the 21st century, including studies of script, print, and post-print cultures. New Directions in Book History, then, will be broadly inclusive but always in the vanguard. It will experiment with inventive methodologies, explore unexplored archives, debate overlooked issues, challenge prevailing theories, study neglected subjects, and demonstrate the relevance of book history to other academic fields. Every title in this series will address the evolution of the historiography of the book, and every one will point to new directions in book scholarship. New Directions in Book History will be published in three formats: single-author monographs; edited collections of essays in single or multiple volumes; and shorter works produced through Palgrave's e-book (EPUB2) 'Pivot' stream. Book proposals should emphasize the innovative aspects of the work, and should be sent to either of the two series editors: