Print and power in early modern Europe (1500-1800)

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by  Nina Lamal, Jamie Cumby, Helmer J Helmers (eds.)

Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800)
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Library of the Written Word
volume 92
The Handpress World
Editor-in-Chief
Andrew Pettegree (University of St Andrews)
Editorial Board
Ann Blair (Harvard University)
Falk Eisermann (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preuβischer Kulturbesitz)
Shanti Graheli (University of Glasgow)
Earle Havens (Johns Hopkins University)
Ian Maclean (All Souls College, Oxford)
Alicia Montoya (Radboud University)
Angela Nuovo (University of Milan)
Helen Smith (University of York)
Mark Towsey (University of Liverpool)
Malcolm Walsby (ENSSIB, Lyon)
Arthur der Weduwen (University of St Andrews)
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Print and Power in
Early Modern Europe
(1500–1800)
Edited by
Nina Lamal
Jamie Cumby
Helmer J. Helmers
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Cover illustration: Minerva with a printing press. Detail from Jacob van der Schley, ‘Allegory of the art of
printing’. Frontispiece for Prosper Marchand, Histoire de l’origine et des prémiers progrès de l’imprimerie
(The Hague: Pieter Paupie, 1740). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam RP-P-OB-67.367. See illustration 0.1 for full
frontispiece.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Lamal, Nina, editor. | Cumby, Jamie, editor. | Helmers, Helmer J.,
 1977–editor.
Title: Print and power in early modern Europe (1500–1800) / edited by Nina
 Lamal, Jamie Cumby, Helmer J. Helmers.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] | Series: Library of the written word,
 1874–4834 ; volume 92 | Includes index. | Includes bibliographical references
 and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021013315 (print) | LCCN 2021013316 (ebook) |
 ISBN 9789004448889 (hardback ; acid-free paper) | ISBN 9789004448896 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Printing – Europe – History. | Printing – Political aspects – Europe –
 History. | Communication in politics – Europe – History. | Religion and religious
 literature – Europe – History.
Classification: LCC Z124 .P8625 2021 (print) | LCC Z124 (ebook) |
 DDC 686.2094 – dc23
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables ix
Notes on Contributors xiii
Introduction: The Printing Press as an Agent of Power 1
Helmer Helmers, Nina Lamal and Jamie Cumby
part 1
Governing through Print
1 Policing in Print: Social Control in Spanish and Borromean Milan
(1535–1584) 21
Rachel Midura
2 On Printing and Decision-Making: The Management of Information by
the City Powers of Lyon (ca. 1550–ca. 1580) 47
Gautier Mingous
3 Printing for Central Authorities in the Early Modern Low Countries
(15th–17th Centuries) 64
Renaud Adam
4 Rural Officials Discover the Printing Press in the Eighteenth-Century
Habsburg Monarchy 86
Andreas Golob
part 2
Printing for Government
5 Printing for the Reformation: The Canonical Documents of the
Edwardian Church of England, 1547–1553 111
Celyn Richards
6 Newspapers and Authorities in Seventeenth-Century Germany 134
Jan Hillgärtner
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7 The Politics of Print in the Dutch Golden Age: The Ommelander
Troubles (c. 1630–1680) 148
Arthur der Weduwen
part 3
Patronage and Prestige
8 The Rise of the Stampatore Camerale: Printers and Power in Early
Sixteenth-Century Rome 181
Paolo Sachet
9 State and Church Sponsored Printing by Jan Januszowski and His
Drukarnia Łazarzowa (Officina Lazari) in Krakow 202
Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba
10 Ferdinando de’ Medici and the Typographia Medicea 220
Caren Reimann
11 Royal Patronage of Illicit Print: Catherine of Braganza and Catholic
Books in Late Seventeenth-Century London 239
Chelsea Reutcke
part 4
Power of Persuasion
12 The Papacy, Power, and Print: The Publication of Papal Decrees in the
First Fifty Years of Printing 259
Margaret Meserve
13 Pictures and Power: The Visual Prints of Frans Hogenberg 300
Ramon Voges
14 Collecting ‘Toute l’Angleterre’: English Books, Soft Power and Spanish
Diplomacy at the Casa del Sol (1613–1622) 316
Ernesto Oyarbide Magaña
15 Prohibition as Propaganda Technique: The Case of the Pamphlet
La couronne usurpée et le prince supposé (1688) 338
Rindert Jagersma
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Contents vii
part 5
Religious Authority
16 Illustrating Authority: The Creation and Reception of an English
Protestant Iconography 361
Nora Epstein
17 Between Ego Documents and Anti-Catholic Propaganda: Printed
Revocation Sermons in Seventeenth-Century Lutheran Germany 390
Martin Christ
18 Learned Servants: Dutch Ministers, Their Books and the Struggle for a
Reformed Republic in the Dutch Golden Age 407
Forrest C. Strickland
Index 431
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Figures and Tables
Figures
0.1 Jacob van der Schley, ‘Allegory of the art of printing’. Frontispiece for Prosper
Marchand, Histoire de l’origine et des prémiers progrès de l’imprimerie
(The Hague: Pieter Paupie, 1740). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam RP-P-OB-67.367 2
1.1 Edict of 6 June 1549 ASMi, Atti di governo, Sanità parte moderna, busta 3.
Reproduced with permission of the Archivio di Stato di Milano 29
1.2 Edict of 12 September 1563 ASMi, Atti di governo, Sanità parte moderna, busta 3.
Reproduced with permission of the Archivio di Stato di Milano 31
1.3 Detail of Edict of 12 September 1563 32
1.4 Giovanni Battista Crespi (Cerano), San Carlo Borromeo consola gli appestati alle
capanne (1602). Hung in the Duomo of Milan as a part of a series of scenes from
the life of San Carlo Borromeo. Reproduced with permission of the Fondazione
Zeri 35
1.5 Edict of 21 June 1576 in ASMi, Atti di governo, Sanità, busta 3. Reproduced with
permission of the Archivio di Stato di Milano 41
2.1 Ordonnance de Messieurs les Seneschal & gens tenans le siege Presidial en la
ville de Lyon (1568), title page. Musée de l’Imprimerie et de la communication
graphique de Lyon. All rights reserved 53
2.2 Strategic locations where print was displayed in 1568 56
2.3 Ordonnance de Messieurs les Seneschal & gens tenans le siege Presidial en la ville
de Lyon, Musée de l’Imprimerie et de la communication graphique de Lyon. All
rights reserved 59
7.1 The Ommelander broadsheet of 9 December 1642, condemning the attacks
of the Groningen magistrate Rudolf Schuringh. Groninger Archieven,
Groningen 149
7.2 The province of Groningen, with the three Ommelander districts of Hunsingo,
Fivelingo and Westerkwartier. Groninger Archieven, Groningen 160
7.3 The city of Groningen, depicted on a map by Salomon Savery (1652), with
the locations of the Groningen city hall (1), the Provinciehuis of the States of
Groningen (2) and the Ommelanderhuis (3). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 161
7.4 The magistrates unleashed the worst round of conflict with their
condemnation of Sebo Huninga in 1639. Universiteitsbibliotheek,
Groningen 164
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x Figures and Tables
7.5 The Ommelanders immediately came to Huninga’s rescue, and took up the
fight for a free Oldampt in a series of placards like this one, published on
11 December 1639. Groninger Archieven, Groningen 165
7.6 Responding in kind: the Council of Ommelanden condemn a Groninger
placard of 8 August 1646. Groninger Archieven, Groningen 167
7.7 The printers of Groningen were happy to accommodate the contesting
authorities with numerous reprints of historic ordinances and resolutions.
Universiteitsbibliotheek, Groningen 173
9.1 Stanisław Sokołowski, De verae et falsae Ecclesiae discriminae (Kraków:
Drukarnia Łazarzowa, 1583) 208
9.2 Marcin Kromer (ed.), Missale Varmiense diligenter recognitum et correctum
(Kraków: Drukarnia Łazarzowa, 1587) 216
10.1 Arabic gospels, title page, in Typographia Medicea, 1590, Rome. Staatliche
Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek 225
11.1 Map showing the location of printers and booksellers of Catholic texts in
relation to Somerset House 1660–1670 (above) and 1670–1685 (below) when
Catherine of Braganza controlled the royal residence as Consort. Stationer’s
Hall and St James’ Palace are given as additional reference points. Inset
of Morgan’s Map of the Whole of London [London, 1682] (London: London
Topographical Society, 1904). Digital copy, Library of Congress, Geography and
Map Division 250
12.1 Julius II, Bulla censurarum [Rome, ca. 1510]. Munich, BSB, 4 f. 4 J.can.f. 171,
fol. 1r 273
12.2 Julius II, Bulla monitorii apostolici contra tres reverendissimos cardinales [Rome:
Giacomo Mazzocchi or Etienne Guillery, 1511]. Munich, BSB, 4 J.can.f 161, fol.
1r 274
12.3 Julius II, Bulla super sententia privationis [Rome: Marcello Silber, 1511]. Munich,
BSB, Res/4 J.can.f. 26#Beibd.28, fol. 1r 276
12.4 Julius II, Bulla super sententia privationis ([Rome: Etienne Guillery?, 1511]).
Munich, BSB, Res/4 J.can.f. 26#Beibd.28, fol. 1r 277
12.5 Printed rotule in editions of Julius II, Bulla intimationis [Rome, 1511] 278
12.6 Julius II, Bulla ultima convocationis et invitationis [Nuremberg: Johann
Weissenburger, 1512]. Munich, BSB, 4 Conc. 102, fol. 1r 279
12.7 Julius II, Bulla innovans et confirmans constitutionem … Pii II contra appellantes
ad futurum concilium [Rome, 1510]. Munich, BSB, 4 J.can.f. 166, fol. 1r 282
12.8 Julius II, bulls and a brief for the Fifth Lateran Council, all printed in Rome by
Marcello Silber, 1511–12. Munich, BSB, 4 Conc. 97a; 4 Conc. 98; 4 J.can.f. 151, all
fol. 1r 283
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