{"product_id":"papal-bull-9781421440446","title":"Papal Bull","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow did Europe's oldest political institution come to grips with the disruptive new technology of print?Printing thrived after it came to Rome in the 1460s. Renaissance scholars, poets, and pilgrims in the Eternal City formed a ready market for mass-produced books. But Rome was also a capital cityseat of the Renaissance papacy, home to its bureaucracy, and a hub of international diplomacyand print played a role in these circles, too. In Papal Bull, Margaret Meserve uncovers a critical new dimension of the history of early Italian printing by revealing how the Renaissance popes wielded print as a political tool. Over half a century of war and controversyfrom approximately 1470 to 1520the papacy and its agents deployed printed texts to potent effect, excommunicating enemies, pursuing diplomatic alliances, condemning heretics, publishing indulgences, promoting new traditions, and luring pilgrims and their money to the papal city. Early modern historians have long stressed the innovative p\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll Catholics should really read it to understand the foundations of their religion... It is also essential-reading for scholars of most early European literatures, as these papal clashes reverberated in echoes, plagiarisms, and mimicries across the texts published across this content over at least the following century, and very much also into the present day.\u003cbr\u003e—Anna Faktorovich, \u003ci\u003ePennsylvania Literary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePapal Bull is an expert guide to the world of printing in Renaissance Rome.[Meserve's] book, based on impeccable research, is as careful and thorough as anything that has been written on Rome in the pre-Reformation period.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNational Catholic Register\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. \u003ci\u003eUrbi et orbi \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Humanists, Printers, and Others\u003cbr\u003e3. Sixtus IV and His Pamphlet Wars\u003cbr\u003e4. Broadsides in Basel\u003cbr\u003e5. The Holy Face, Imprinted and in Print\u003cbr\u003e6. Refugee Relics\u003cbr\u003e7. Kissing the Papal Foot\u003cbr\u003e8. Brand Julius\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49371887010135,"sku":"9781421440446","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/papal-bull-9781421440446","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}