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List of Figures and Tables |
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Introduction: Towards a Literary Culture of Central Europe |
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Part 1 Confessional Diversity and the Book: A Hungarian and Transylvanian Case Study |
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1 Hearing the Word of God |
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The Aural and Symbolic Presence of Bibles in Early Hungarian-Speaking Calvinism |
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2 The Minister's Reading List |
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Religious Books in the Libraries of Transylvanian Lutheran Clergy |
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3 The Posthumous Reception of an Antitrinitarian Bishop at Home and Abroad |
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The Afterlife of Gyorgy Enyedi's Explicationes |
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58 | (27) |
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4 Books for Transylvanian Greek Catholics |
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Confessional Printing with Cross-Confessional Sourcing |
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85 | (20) |
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5 Liturgical Books after the Council of Trent |
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Implementation, Innovation, and the Formation of Local Tradition in the Habsburg Lands |
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Part 2 The Renaissance World of Central Europe |
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6 Making Erasmus Speak Czech |
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Female Patronage and Production of the 1533 Czech Translation of the New Testament |
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7 Praise of Bohemian Folly |
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Context and Consequences of the Histories of BrotherJan Palecek |
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143 | (15) |
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8 Cum imaginibus, cum iconibus |
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Cataloguing Printed Images in Early Modern Libraries |
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9 Early Modern Polish Travellers Purchasing Books in Italy Ownership Evidence as a Source of Information |
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177 | (18) |
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10 Facing the 'Turk' in the Book Culture of Central Europe |
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Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik |
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Part 3 Martin Luther and the Book |
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11 Reused Matrices, Adopted Iconographies, and Misleading Images |
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Woodcuts on the Title Pages of Luther's Early Sermons on the Sacraments |
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12 The Lotter Printing Dynasty |
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Michael Lotter and Reformation Printing in Magdeburg |
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A Study of the First Edition and Reprints of the Pamphlet Ein Mandat Jesu Christi |
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269 | (19) |
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14 The Dream of a Border-Crossing Bible |
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A Study of Ungnad, Trubar, Vergerio, Konzul, and Their Co-Workers |
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15 The Reformation, the Book, and the Clergy |
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The Place of Holy Scripture in the Churches of the Duchy of Pomerania and Clerical Identity in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries |
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Part 4 Local Communities and the Book |
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16 Printing and Post-Tridentine Catholicism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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17 Buying Bound Books in Sixteenth-Century Cracow |
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Using Inventories and Bindings to Uncover a Thriving Retail Market |
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344 | (23) |
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Katarzyna Plaszczynska-Herman |
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18 Publishing Books in Early Modern Jewish Prague |
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367 | (20) |
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19 Printing of Learned Literature in Hebrew, 1510-1630 |
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Toward a New Understanding of Early Modern Jewish Practices of Reading |
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387 | (24) |
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20 The Standard and the Exceptional in a Provincial Print Shop |
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The Case of Early Modern Oels |
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Part 5 Print Culture in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe |
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21 Trusting Facts, Trusting People |
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Approbata, Endorsements, and Authoritative Knowledge in the Early Modern Jewish Book Trade |
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22 The (Sweerts-)Sporcks and Their Subjects |
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Local and Transcultural Printing and Distribution of Heterodox Books in Eighteenth-Century Bohemia |
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23 The Circulation of Jewish Esoteric Knowledge in Manuscript and Print |
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The Case of Early Modern East-Central Europe |
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24 "That Little Golden Book" |
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Eastern Slavic Translations of the Imitation of Christ, 1628-1799 |
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Epilogue: The Hand Press and Political Dissent Forbidden Print in Central Europe, 1800-1848 |
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Index |
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