Reformation, Religious Culture and Print in Early Modern Europe

Arthur der Weduwen is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the University of St Andrews and co-deputy director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue. He specialises in the history of communication, printing and the book trade, early modern politics, and the history of the Netherlands, and is the author and editor of seven books in those fields. Malcolm Walsby is professor of book history at Enssib in Lyon and director of the Gabriel Naudé research centre. A specialist of the archaeology of the book and the economics of the book trade, he is the author of a number of monographs, bibliographies and articles on early modern European history.

Preface

List of Figures

List of Tables

Note on Contributors



1. Malcolm Walsby – Andrew Pettegree, a Historian of the Reformation and the Book

2. Arjan van Dijk – Andrew Pettegree and Brill: A Publishing History



Part 1. Reformation and Religious Culture

3. Bruce Gordon – Boundaries of Memory: The Mediaeval Bible in the Early Modern World

4. Flavia Bruni – The Unexpected Guest: Henry VIII in the General Archive of the Servants of Mary

5. Brian L. Hanson – ‘Thruste oute teares of repentaunce’: Dramatizing Conversion in Reformation England

6. Margo Todd – Weather, Finance and Urban Religious Dissent in Early Modern Scotland

7. Grant Tapsell – Restoration and the Culture of Persecution: The View from Lambeth

8. Richard Kirwan – Scholarly Careers and the Confessional University in Early Modern Germany

9. Riccardo Bavaj – Religious Re-anchoring (through Lots of Books): Heinrich August Winkler, Germany, and ‘the West’



Part 2. Religion in Print

10. Jonathan A. Reid – A Prayer for Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII and their ‘Children’: A Portal to Early Reformation England’s entente évangélique with France

11. Alec Ryrie – The Vernacular Scripture Fallacy and the Failure of Early Protestant Mission

12. Ian Maclean – Brand Melanchthon, Brand Philippism. Polemics and the Book World, 1560–1620: a Prolegomenon

13. Natale Vacalebre – A Hell of a Poem! Censoring Dante’s Commedia in Early Modern Spain

14. Elise Watson – Lost Saints: Printed Catholic Ephemera in the Dutch Republic



Part 3. Religious Strife and Revolt in France and the Low Countries

15. Mack P. Holt – The Role of International Printing Presses in the French Wars of Religion

16. Malcolm Walsby – The Protestant Book Trade in Rouen during the First Years of the Wars of Religion

17. Katell Lavéant – A Joyful Book as a Vehicle for the Protestant Faith? The Case of the Triomphes de l’Abbaye des Conards, Rouen, 1587

18. Alastair Duke – ‘Our Poor Oppressed and Forlorn Fatherland.’ The Patriotic Rhetoric Inspired by William of Orange and his Circle, 1568–1576

19. Guido Marnef – Challenging the Church of England: The Building of a Calvinist English Church in Antwerp (1578–1582)



Bibliography of Andrew Pettegree’s Publications

Index