You may have to register before you can download all our books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Pretendiendo fomentar la utilización de la prensa como fuente para el estudio de la Historia, se lleva a cabo aquí un estudio de la historia de Sevilla a través de la prensa y la repercusión de ésta en los acontecimientos históricos del siglo XX.
National studies have demonstrated their inability to correctly understand global phenomena, and the way in which they affect societies. This chronologically ambitious book investigates methodological and theoretical issues from Roman times to the present, in terms of globalization. In this context, one of the most relevant parameters of change emerges: the itinerancy of culture and knowledge. Therefore, this volume argues that itinerant agents carry with them cultural baggage, transporting and transmitting it to other spaces. In this way, interconnection begins, producing active changes in global history and visual culture. Contributions to this book focus on comparative studies, the evolution of global phenomena, historical processes in their diachrony, regional studies, changing economies, cultural continuities, and methodological questions on globalization, among others. In addition, the book opens with a contribution from Professor Peter Burke.
This book attends to the most essential, lucrative, and overlooked business activity of early modern Europe: the trade of paper. Despite the well-known fact that paper was crucial to the success of printing and record-keeping alike, paper remains one of the least studied areas of early modern history. Organised into three sections – ‘Hotspots and Trade Routes’, ‘Usual Dealings’, and ‘Recycling Economies’ – the chapters in this collection shed light on the practices, materials, and networks of the paper trade. Altogether, the collection uncovers the actors involved in the networks of paper production, transportation, purchase, and reuse, between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries and across the central and peripheral papermaking regions of Europe. Contributors: Renaud Adam, Daniel Bellingradt, Frank Birkenholz, Simon Burrows, Orietta Da Rold, Michael Falk, Anna Gialdini, Rachel Hendery, Silvia Hufnagel, Jean-Benoît Krumenacker, Katherine McDonough, Krisztina Rábai, Anna Reynolds, Benito Rial Costas, Tapio Salminen, Helen Smith, Jan Willem Veluwenkamp, Andreas Weber, and Megan Williams.
The essays in Private Libraries and their Documentation revolve around the users and contents of early modern private book collections, and around the sources used to document and study these collections. They take the reader from large-scale projects on historical book ownership to micro-level research conducted on individual libraries, and from analyses of specific types of primary sources to general typologies and overviews by period and by region. As a result of its comparative approach and active engagement with questions regarding the nature, selection and accessibility of sources, the volume serves as a guide to sources and resources in different regions as well as to state-of the-art methods and interpretational approaches. Publication of this volume in open access was made possible by the Ammodo KNAW Award 2017 for Humanities.
This collection of essays engages with a variety of aspects of early modern book culture in the 16th-17th centuries, considered in the Catholic context. The contributions reflect on the engagement of institutions and authorities in the process of book production, bringing to the fore the role of networks in this process; show the book as a tool of resistance to the Protestant Reformation; give insight into the content and design of book collections; showcase textual production in the context of cultural appropriation and shed light on the role of the image in the propagation of Catholicism. Together the sixteen contributions demonstrate the diversity of the Catholic book in its forms and functions, in various social and national contexts.
The first comprehensive guide to women's promotion and use of textual culture, in manuscript and print, in Renaissance Italy.
El desentrañar el libro como un objeto material en cuya elaboración intervienen hombres y mujeres dedicados a su encargo y edición, su elaboración material y su distribución comercial sigue conformando el conjunto de los aspectos relacionados con el mundo del libro antiguo sobre el que más aportaciones científicas se realizan y más se investiga. Sin embargo, quedan todavía muchas facetas que continúan requiriendo profundización: el nombre de los oficiales de imprenta en los talleres; el de los artistas iluminadores, diseñadores de estampas, grabadores; las tiradas; los costes de producción…, entre otras muchas. Apreciar los caminos que sigue el libro para llegar a un lector, e...
En este libro se analizan las redes del libro en España en el mundo moderno y contemporáneo, centrando el análisis en sus agentes, nodos y medios de circulación. Los estudios abordan la geografía del libro en tránsito, la relación entre oferta y demanda en redes formales e informales, y la capacidad de los agentes para adquirir y transportar el libro, considerado como un bien de intercambio y objeto de interés para las comunidades de lectores. Las interacciones entre estos agentes permiten delimitar las posibilidades de acceso al libro en zonas como Huesca, analizando uno de los pocos libros de contabilidad conservados de una dinastía de impresores, y en el caso de Soria, dando a co...
La Celestina, a Spanish literary masterpiece second only in importance to Don Quixote in Spanish literature, has been shaped by the inclusion of images from its very first edition in 1499. The subsequent five centuries were punctuated by many illustrated editions; imaginary portraits of the eponymous procuress Celestina by painters such as Murillo, Goya, and Picasso; and, more recently, screen and stage adaptations. Celestina became the prototype from which later representations of procuresses and bawds derived. The Image of Celestina sheds light on the visual culture that developed around La Celestina, including paintings, illustrations, and advertisements. Enrique Fernández examines La Celestina as a mixed-media text, incorporating methods from disciplines such as art history and women’s and cinema studies, and considers a variety of images including promotional posters, lobby pictures, and playbills of theatrical and cinematic adaptations of the book. Using a visual studies approach, The Image of Celestina ultimately illuminates the culture of Celestina, a mythical figure, who surpasses the literary text in which she originated.
Esta investigación parte del estudio de un documento excepcional: el Libro de cuentas de Pedro Blusón y Juan Francisco Larumbe, que hasta la fecha es el más antiguo «libro de cuenta y razón» de una imprenta localizado en la Península. Para una mejor comprensión del documento y de su información se ha completado con la revisión y análisis de otras fuentes bibliográficas y archivísticas. La presente obra ofrece una panorámica de la imprenta en Huesca en la primera mitad del siglo XVII que puede ser un buen ejemplo del funcionamiento de un pequeño taller de la época, revelando qué se imprime, cómo se producen los impresos y libros, cómo se distribuyen, qué gastos e ingresos se obtienen, qué relaciones existen entre los diferentes profesionales del libro… También permite conocer mejor a los protagonistas del libro y algunas de las facetas de su vida cotidiana. La imprenta de Pedro Blusón y Juan Francisco Larumbe es además la imprenta de la Universidad Sertoriana, por lo que su estudio ayuda a comprender mejor la actividad de los impresores de las universidades en el siglo XVII.