Early Modern Catholicism and the Printed Book: Agents - Networks - Responses (Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - the Handpress World, 119)

The present volume will serve its purpose if it consolidates the view of early modern Catholic book culture as an autonomous field of investigation and encourages further research and discussion. To See the Wood for the Trees Contents 6 Figures and Tables 10 Notes on Contributors 13 1 To See the Wood for the Trees: Early Modern Catholicism and the Printed Book 18 Part 1 Institutions and Networks 32 2 Towards the Typographia Vaticana: Gregory XIII’s Promotion of Printing 34 3 The ‘Primer and Christian Doctrine of Valladolid’ (1583): A Multifaceted Publishing Endeavour 54 4 A Coordinated Catholic Press: The Editing and Dispersal of Nicholas Sander’s Schismatis Anglicani, 1580–c.1600 69 5 Printing Reformed Plainchant in Papal Rome: Giovanni Guidetti, Robert Granjon and the 1582 Directorium Chori 92 Part 2 Between the Protestant and Catholic Reformations 116 6 ‘Write against It, So That They May Return to the Right Faith’: Catholic Doctrinal and Polemical Writings in the Early Dutch Reformation (1517–1528) 118 7 Echoes of Worms: Luther’s Opponents in Eastern Europe 140 8 Protestant Books in Jesuit Libraries from Riga, Braniewo and Poznań: Catholic Post-publication Censorship in Practice 160 9 Book Collection of a Hinterland Convent in Response to the Lutheran Reformation: The Case of Mid-Sixteenth Century Rakvere (Wesenberg) 197 Part 3 214 Part 3 Insights into the Collections 214 10 Italian Religious Orders and Their Books at the End of the Sixteenth Century 216 11 Books in the Cloister, Books in the Cells: The Augustinians of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome and Their Book Collections at the End of the Sixteenth Century 237 12 Benedictine Book Acquisitions in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Bohemia: A Case of Convents in Broumov and Prague 272 Part 4 Appropriation of Texts and Books 290 13 The Earliest Polish Translation of a Jesuit Catechism 292 14 From Bees to Thieves: The Perception of Writing Practices and Intellectual Property in Early Modern Hungary 305 Part 5 The Interplay of Word and Image 324 15 Framing the French Protestant Threat in Richard Rowlands Verstegan’s Théâtre des cruautés des hereticques de nostre temps (1588) 326 16 Meditative Emblems in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1570–1775) 340 17 Supralibros as a Creed: Ownership Stamps on Books Belonging to Tomasz Treter, Canonicus et Custos Varmiensis 389 Index 408