Authority in European Book Culture 1400-1600

Pollie Bromilow is Lecturer in French at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Introduction, Pollie Bromilow; Chapter 1 Manuscript, Print, Orality and the Authority of Texts in Renaissance Italy, Brian Richardson; Chapter 2 Books on the Bridge: Writing, Printing and Viral Authority, Adrian Armstrong; Chapter 3 Competing Codes of Authority in mid-Fifteenth Century Burgundy: Martin Le Franc and the Book that Answers Back, Helen Swift; Chapter 4 1This contribution forms part of the Project A4: ‘Transformations of the writing of national and regional history through the reception of antiquity in European humanism’ within the Collaborative Research Centre 644 ‘Transformations of Antiquity’ at the Humboldt University, Berlin. Research for this project was financed by the German Research Foundation. I have much profited from discussions with my colleagues Stefan Schlelein and Patrick Baker and the head of our project, Johannes Helmrath., Albert Schirrmeister; Chapter 5 Schiltberger’s Travels, 1396–1597, Samuel Willcocks; Chapter 6 Print and Political Propaganda under Pope Julius II (1503–13), Massimo Rospocher; Chapter 7 Denis Sauvage – Renaissance Editor of Medieval Manuscripts, Catherine Emerson; Chapter 8 1I borrow this collocation from Susan Sniader Lanser, Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992). Hélisenne de Crenne and the Angoysses douloureuses qui procedent d’amours (1538), Pollie Bromilow; Chapter 9 1I would like to thank the English Historical Review for permissions to develop material from ‘“All our books do be sent abroad and translated”: Henrician polemic in its international context’, English Historical Review, 121 (2006), 1271–99 (pp. 1276–82, 1292–3). This essay was written during a British Academy PostDoctoral Fellowship; I would like to thank the British Academy for their generous support., Tracey A. Sowerby; Chapter 10 Rebuking the Princes: Erasmus Alber in Magdeburg, 1548–52, Jane Finucane; Chapter 11 Religious Authority and Publishing Success in the Early Modern Jesuit Penitential Book Printing, Robert Aleksander Maryks;