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Abstract The household book is a particular feature of the landscape of manuscript production post‐1475, and is particularly associated with women. Compiling manuscript household books in a post‐print landscape involved a specific kind of dialogue between the two material forms.
Carrie Griffin
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Reader Interaction with Graphic Devices in Early Modern English Printed Books☆
Abstract Research into marginalia or reader annotations has become a well‐established branch of early modern book studies, shedding light on one of the ways in which manuscript and print coexisted and interacted in this period. The present study sets out to discover how readers engaged with printed graphic devices and with texts that contain such ...
Aino Liira
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Anticlerical Motifs in the Illustrations of Martin Luther’s Hauspostille
Drawing on the example of the editions of a Protestant bestseller, Martin Luther’s Hauspostille, printed several times in Nuremberg between 1544 and 1548 by Johann vom Berg and Ulrich Neuber, the study examines the sources, location, and function of the ...
Grażyna Jurkowlaniec +1 more
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Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print
Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
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La Diabolisation dans La Guisiade (1589) de Pierre Matthieu et Le Guysien (1592) de Simon Bélyard
Devilish characterization in La Guisiade and Le Guysien can be accounted for by the political commitment of both playwrights as well as the deictic dimension of humanist tragedy.
Jean-Claude Ternaux
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The Literary Court: Reading Queen Charlotte
Abstract This article investigates the literary culture revolving around Queen Charlotte (1744–1818) between 1761 and 1818. The Queen's library, sold after her death in 1818, contained more than 4500 volumes, and the sales catalogue (1819) offers a fascinating glimpse into her collecting habits and reading interests. This article uses the catalogue, as
Mascha Hansen
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This article is devoted to the study of the book printing techniques in the Moscow Print Yard and their influence on the external features of the book and its artistic form.
Oleg Rostislavovich Khromov
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1165. Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench
Summary Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench (Compositae: Heliantheae: Zinniinae) is described and illustrated with a colour plate and black and white text figure. An introduction to the history of the appearance of this species in the Magazine appears in brief, together with comments on the treatment of the genus, and the available generic revisions.
Nicholas Hind +2 more
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DigitalSEE: A Digital Repository for South Eastern Europe in the 18th–19th Century
The data set is part of the DigitalSEE project, which aims to become an extensive digital repository housing images and text collections, including woodcuts, engravings, maps, travelogues, diplomatic reports, newspapers, journals, and archival materials.
Maria Baramova, Kristiyan Simeonov
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Iconoclasm in the German engravings in XVI century
The role of the religious images, mainly discussed, in the polemic between catholics and protestants, under the historic and theological point of view, has been reflected in some German engravings, representing iconoclasm scenes.The iconoclastic riots ...
Guido Checchi
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