History of the Book

Por se: a reneszánsz médiumai

by Andras Kisery

in: Tamás Bényei (ed): Átjárások: fiatal anglisták és amerikanisták tanulmányai. Fiatal Írók Szövetsége, Budapest, 2005, pp. 15-45

first published in:
Jelenkor 48:11 (November 2005) pp. 1066-1084.

The critical media of early modern texts

by Andras Kisery

European Journal of English Studies 4/2 (2000) pp. 125-139.

Anonymity, Authorship, and Recirculation: A Civil War Episode

by Ellen Gruber Garvey

Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Appropriation: Scrapbooks and Extra-Illustration

by Ellen Gruber Garvey

Published in the online history journal Common-Place

Extra-illustration or grangerizing, the remaking of printed books by adding illustrations and other matter according... more Extra-illustration or grangerizing, the remaking of printed books by adding illustrations and other matter according to the owner's tastes, shared with nineteenth-century scrapbook making the attempt to take ownership of a book.

"Nunca tantos leram tão pouco": editores de livro unidos contra a temida modernidade em meados do século XX

by Gabriel Labanca

XXVI Simpósio Nacional de História ANPUH, 2011, São Paulo. Anais do XXVI simpósio nacional da ANPUH - Associação Nacional de História. São Paulo : ANPUH-SP, 2011. v. 1. p. 1-15

As transformações sócio-econômicas, políticas e culturais ocorridas no Brasil a partir de 1930 incentivaram também a... more As transformações sócio-econômicas, políticas e culturais ocorridas no Brasil a partir de 1930 incentivaram também a expansão da produção e venda de livros. No entanto, como o público consumidor e leitor ainda não era satisfatório para um número maior de editoras, e o país ainda conservava problemas históricos nessa área (má distribuição, parque gráfico insuficiente, analfabestimo, etc.), grande parte das novas empresas fundadas na época foram à falência. Aos editores mais consolidados, restava lutar contra antigos e novos obstáculos, como a entrada de modernos hábitos de consumo cultural na sociedade brasileira, para manterem seus negócios abertos. Nesse contexto, buscamos entender como o temor pela entrada de novas mídias no mercado brasileiro incentivou a consolidação de uma classe editorial no país, assim como a sua adequação às novas leis do mercado e as suas ações de protesto contra a entrada de impressos estrangeiros e os subsídios governamentais a jornais e revistas, como estratégias de sobrevivência da atividade livreira.

Relações e Edições de Ouro: a Tecnoprint na expansão do mercado editorial brasileiro durante os primeiros anos da Ditadura Militar

by Gabriel Labanca

Em Tempo de Histórias, v. 14, p. 125-145, 2009

O início da ditadura militar no Brasil marca não apenas um período de privações de direitos políticos e sociais, mas... more O início da ditadura militar no Brasil marca não apenas um período de privações de direitos políticos e sociais, mas também o começo de um bom relacionamento entre o governo e as editoras de livros, influenciando na expansão e modernização do mercado editorial do país. Nesse contexto, buscamos entender a dinâmica dessa relação e as transformações ocorridas com a coleção de livros de bolso Edições de Ouro, da editora Tecnoprint.

Review: Negotiating the Jacobean Printed Book

by Adam G. Hooks

Introduction: The Institutions of South African Literature

by Andrew van der Vlies

English Studies in Africa 47.1 (2004): 1-15

The Editorial Empire: The Fiction of “Greater Britain”, and the Early Readers of Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm

by Andrew van der Vlies

TEXT: An Inter-disciplinary Annual of Textual Studies 15 (2002): 237-60

‘“Your Passage Leaves its Track of…Change”: Textual Variation in Roy Campbell’s “Tristan da Cunha”, 1926-1945

by Andrew van der Vlies

English Studies in Africa 46.1 (2003): 47-61

“Hurled by what aim to what tremendous range!”: Roy Campbell and the Politics of Anthologies, 1927-1945

by Andrew van der Vlies

English Studies in Africa 48.1 (2005): 63-85

Transnational Print Cultures: Books, -scapes, and the Textual Atlantic

by Andrew van der Vlies

Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 8.1 (January 2007): 45-55. [DOI: 10.1080/17533170701295306]

Outside the Nation(al): “South African” print and book cultures, and global “text-scapes”

by Andrew van der Vlies

In Mary Hammond and Robert Fraser, eds. Books Without Borders, Vol. 1: The Cross-National Dimension in Print Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008. 173-85. [ISBN: 978-0 230-21029-5]

The History of the Book in Sub-Saharan Africa

by Andrew van der Vlies

In Michael F. Suarez SJ & Henry Woudhuysen, gen. eds. The Oxford Companion to the Book. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Vol. 1. 313-20. [ISBN: 978-0-19-860653-6]

July’s People in Context: Apartheid’s dystopias abroad

by Andrew van der Vlies

In Brendon Nicholls, Nadine Gordimer’s July’s People. London: Routledge, 2010 [dated 2011]. 115-30. [ISBN: 978-0-415-42072-3]

Cultura impressa: edição, circulação e leitura no Brasil

by Gabriel Labanca

Resenha do livro BRAGANÇA, Aníbal; ABREU, Márcia (Orgs.). Impresso no Brasil. Dois séculos de livros brasileiros. São Paulo: Editora Unesp; Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, 2011.

Resenha do livro BRAGANÇA, Aníbal; ABREU, Márcia (Orgs.). Impresso no Brasil. Dois séculos de livros brasileiros. São... more Resenha do livro BRAGANÇA, Aníbal; ABREU, Márcia (Orgs.). Impresso no Brasil. Dois séculos de livros brasileiros. São Paulo: Editora Unesp; Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, 2011.

Dynastic Identity and Remembrance of Ducal Brittany in a Fifteenth-Century Carmelite Missal (Princeton University Library, Garrett MS 40)

by Diane Booton

Princeton University Library Chronicle (2011): 37-67.

Anxiety over family succession and dynastic continuity emerge as a political undercurrent in a uniquely illustrated... more Anxiety over family succession and dynastic continuity emerge as a political undercurrent in a uniquely illustrated memorial to the Montfort rulers of the late-medieval duchy of Brittany in a fifteenth-century missal made for the Carmelite order in Nantes, and now held at the Princeton University Library. Written and illuminated chiefly during the reign of François I (1442–50), at a time when the Montfort’s dynastic concerns were uncertain, the missal negotiates the visual recreation of the family’s legitimacy and legacy to promote collective identity and memory in a more public sphere.

The manuscript’s elaborate illumination shows each generation en famille, kneeling in adoration before the statue of the Virgin and Child in the convent’s chapel; the pictorial program dovetails not only with the Passion of Christ, but also with historicizing scenes of the convent’s construction under ducal patronage and of the captivity of certain family members by rivals. The family sequence of miniatures is interrupted, however, by images and emblems of other Breton nobles and foreign merchants, thereby complicating our understanding of the missal’s commission. Whose heritage is being remembered and for what purpose? How does a missal as a physical object participate in this historical theater to define and convey meaning?

This article explores the role of the Carmelites in shaping and promoting the fama and memoria—the reputation and memory—of the Montfort dukes as virtuous princes. Illustrated rituals in sacred space and the placement of familial emblems in the missal were symbolic commemorations of the deceased by the living, who had a potent and solemn role in assuring the deceased’s salvation, filtered through the agency of the Carmelite order.

‘A Letter from John Partridge to Isaac Manley 24 April 1708: Provenance and Authenticity’ Notes and Queries (published online March 24 2012 doi:10.1093/notesj/gjs045)

by John McTague

Ex libris Nicolai Episcopi Modrussiensis: Knjižnica Nikole Modruškog [Ex libris Nicolai Episcopi Modrussiensis: The Library of Nicholas of Modruš]

by Luka Špoljarić

published in Colloquia Maruliana 21 (2012): 25-68 (includes an extensive English summary)

The article presents the reconstruction of the library of Nicholas bishop of Modruš (Nicolaus Episcopus Modrussiensis,... more The article presents the reconstruction of the library of Nicholas bishop of Modruš (Nicolaus Episcopus Modrussiensis, ca. 1427-1480). It is based on the research carried out in the libraries of Rome and Naples, and on the hitherto unconsulted inventory of Nicholas' books that were donated by pope Sixtus IV (1471-1484) to the Augustinians of Santa Maria del Popolo. The result is a corpus of 42 manuscripts that have been identified as Nicholas', and five additional ones that probably belonged to him as well (the list of which can be found in Appendix 1), while at the same time many manuscripts previously thought as his were rejected as such. On the basis of codicological and palaeographical analyses of this corpus, the author makes conclusions concerning the formation, contents and fate of the library, as well as Nicholas' reading practices and interests, which are finally placed in the context of his education and literary oeuvre on the one hand, and intellectual culture of Renaissance Rome on the other. Aside from this, the article corrects some errors regarding Nicholas' life and works, draws attention to the discovery of a new manuscript of his history of the Gothic wars, and advances a precise dating for the only previously undated work of his, On humility.

'Correspondence from Jean-Baptiste Devenet and Claude Prost, book merchants of Lyon, to Fr Luke Wadding OFM, 1647-1654,' Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, 104 (2011), 519-45.

by Benjamin Hazard