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Book Synopsis'The Open Access publishing costs of this volume were covered by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Veni-project “Leaving a Lasting Impression. The Impact of Incunabula on Late Medieval Spirituality, Religious Practice and Visual Culture in the Low Countries” (grant number 275-30-036).' This volume explores various approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Europe in the 15th-16th centuries. Through a shared focus on the material book as an interface between producers and users, the contributors investigate how book producers conceived of their target audiences and how these vernacular books were designed and used. Three sections highlight connections between vernacularity and materiality from distinct perspectives: real and imagined readers, mobility of texts and images, and intermediality. The volume brings contributions on different regions, languages, and book types into dialogue. Contributors include Heather Bamford, Tillmann Taape, Stefan Matter, Suzan Folkerts, Karolina Mroziewicz, Martha W. Driver, Alexa Sand, Elisabeth de Bruijn, Katell Lavéant, Margriet Hoogvliet, and Walter S. Melion.
Trade Review“Intersections is an eminently useful […] series that collects recent scholarly essays on topics of interest to nearly every subfield in early modern studies.” Anne Good, Reinhardt University. In: Itinerario, Vol. 35, No. 2 (August 2011), p. 106.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors Introduction Anna Dlabačová and Andrea van Leerdam Part 1: Real and Imagined Readers 1 Reading Magic in Early Modern Iberia Heather Bamford 2 Vernacular Readers of Medicine: Imagined Audiences and Material Traces of Reading in Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Distillation Books Tillmann Taape 3 The Hortulus animae – An Archive of Medieval Prayer Book Literature Stefan Matter 4 Printers’ Strategies and Readers’ Responses: Vernacular Editions of the Deventer Printers Richard Pafraet and Jacob van Breda Suzan Folkerts 5 Personalizing Universal History: Noblemen’s Responses to the Polish-Language Chronicle of the Whole World by Marcin Bielski Karolina Mroziewicz Part 2: Mobility of Texts and Images 6 The Schoolroom in Early English Illustration Martha W. Driver 7 Moving Pictures: The Art and Craft of Dying Well in the Woodcuts of Wynkyn de Worde Alexa Sand 8 Catering to Different Tastes: Western-European Romance in the Earliest Decades of Printing Elisabeth de Bruijn Part 3: Intermediality 9 Moveable Types of Merry Monsters: Joyful Literature on Paper and on the Walls Katell Lavéant 10 Pour ce fault morir en vivant: Medieval Humanist Readings of Text and Images in Pierre Michault’s Danse aux aveugles Margriet Hoogvliet 11 Meditating the Unbearable in a Fifteenth-Century Netherlandish Manuscript Prayerbook with Printed Images Walter S. Melion Afterword: Making an End of the Beginnings of Early Printing in Western Europe John J. Thompson Index Nominum
