Print and the Reformation. Luther en het boek.
Voordracht in het Engels
Andrew Pettegree, Professor of Modern History, University of St.Andrews (VK) brengt een Engelstalige voordracht over ‘Luther en het boek’. De protestantse reformatie en Luther in het bijzonder hebben het gedrukte boek grondig beïnvloed. Door de reformatie werd de boekenmarkt immers opengegooid en kreeg het boek een nieuw uitzicht. Deze evolutie begon in Wittenberg met Maarten Luther en Lucas Cranach in een hoofdrol.
Voor de lezing, van 18.30u tot 19.30u, kan je kennis maken met Lutherdrukken en andere 16de-eeuwse boeken, een collectiepresentatie door de Bibliotheek van het Grootseminarie.
Woensdag 22 november 2017, 19.30u
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Print and the Reformation. A Drama in Three Acts
Andrew Pettegree
Throughout the history of printing, questions of design have been crucial to the development of the book industry. This is especially the case with the development of the title-page, the most crucial design feature for which there was no obvious model inherited from the manuscript book world. The Reformation both revolutionized the market for books and stimulated crucial innovations in the design and selling of books. This began in Wittenberg, where the partnership of Martin Luther and Lucas Cranach played a critical role in shaping the Reformation pamphlet. In lands more hostile to the Reformation the design task was more complex, since design features intended to facilitate identification could place the seller or owner in deadly danger. The paper concludes with an examination of the market for devotional literature in the Dutch Republic, the home to Europe’s most buoyant centre of book production.
Andrew Pettegree is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue. He is the author of over a dozen books in the fields of Reformation history and the history of communication including Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion (Cambridge University Press, 2005), The Book in the Renaissance (Yale University Press, 2010) and The Invention of News (Yale University Press, 2014). His most recent book, Brand Luther: 1517, Print and the Making of the Reformation (Penguin USA) was published in October 2015. His new projects include a study of the book culture of the Dutch Golden Age for Yale University Press and ‘Preserving the World’s Rarest Books’, a collaborative project with libraries funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.