This book depicts the Early Modern book markets in Europe and colonial Latin America. The nature of book production and distribution in this period resulted in the development of a truly international market. The integration of the book market was facilitated by networks of printers and booksellers, who were responsible for the connection of distant places, as well as local producers and merchants. At the same time, due to the particular nature of books, political and religious institutions intervened in book markets. Printers and booksellers lived in a politically fragmented world where religious boundaries often shifted. This book explores both the development of commercial networks as well as how the changing institutional settings shaped relationships in the book market.
Author(s): Montserrat Cachero, Natalia Maillard-Álvarez
Series: New Directions in Book History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 259
City: Cham
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Circulation of Books During the Early Modern Period: Contexts and Perspectives
Part I: Privileged Markets
Chapter 2: Book Privileges in the Early Modern Age: From Trade Protection and Promotion to Content Regulation
Book Privileges in Venice
Book Privileges in Rome
Chapter 3: A Pious Privilege: Printing for Hospitals and Orphanages Across the Spanish Empire
Royal Privileges and Poor Relief
A Privilege for Primers: Mexico, Lima, Buenos Aires
A Privilege for the Grammar: Madrid, Pamplona, Zaragoza
Financial Management in Hospitals and Orphanages
Protest and Contraventions by Printers
Conclusions
Chapter 4: Antonio Sanz and the Distribution of the Festivals and Vigils Calendar
Antonio Sanz and the Privilege of Calendars
The Production and Distribution of the Calendars of Antonio Sanz
The Decentralisation of the Privilege
The Limits of Antonio Sanz’s Privilege
The Distribution of Calendars After 1780
The Balance of the System
PART II: Economic Behaviour at the Market
Chapter 5: Serving the Church, Feeding the Academia: The Giunta and Their Market-Oriented Approach to European Institutions
Territorial Strategy
Planning Accordingly
Engaging in Competition
Engaging with Politics
Losing Both Wars
Chapter 6: Global Networks in the Atlantic Book Market (Booksellers and Inquisitors in the Spanish Empire)
The Regulation of the American Book Market
The Spanish Inquisition and the Regulation of the Book Market in New Spain
The Procedure
Solving the Conflict
The Networks
The Real Network
Conclusions
Chapter 7: A Pluricontinental Book Market: The Role of Booksellers in the Circulation of Knowledge Within the Portuguese Empire (c. 1790–1820)
A Pluricontinental Book Market Stocked by Lisbon
The Controlled Circulation of Books
Booksellers and Book Merchants: The Agents of Circulation
Books to the Overseas
Conclusions
PART III: Institutions, Markets, and Incentives
Chapter 8: Publication and Distribution of the Pre-Tridentine Liturgical Book in Spain Through Notarial Documentation
Church and Typographic Production
Liturgical Book Printing Contracts
Economic Agreements
Technical Agreements
The Publication of the Liturgical Book on the Margins of the Church
Distribution of the Liturgical Books
Some Observations as Conclusion
Chapter 9: From Rome to Constantinople. The Greek Printers and the Struggles for Influence Between the Roman Catholic Church and the Ecumenical Patriarchate over the Christian Populations in the Eastern Mediterranean (Seventeenth Century)
Greek Printing Houses and Their Supervision
Propaganda
Circulation
Chapter 10: The Territorial Component of Inquisitorial Book Control in the Eighteenth-Century Indias’ Trade to New Granada
The Book Control in the Indias’ Trade to New Granada: The Different Kinds of Inquisitorial Licences
Licences Issued by an Inquisitorial Port Commissar
Licences Issued by a Port Commissar and an Inquisitorial Revisor
The Licences Issued by a Tribunal: The Case of Seville
Licences of the Council of the Supreme Inquisition and the Passports for Books
The Licences for the Religious Orders
Conclusions
Primary sources
Name Index
Subject Index
