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The bookshop of the world : making and trading books in the Dutch Golden Age /

The Dutch Golden Age has long been seen as the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, whose paintings captured the public imagination and came to represent the marvel that was the Dutch Republic. Yet there is another, largely overlooked marvel in the Dutch world of the seventeenth century: books. In this fas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Pettegree, Andrew (Autor), Weduwen, Arthur der (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prelude: making room for books
  • Part I.A new republic. Beginnings
  • A poisonous place
  • News Cycles
  • To the ends of the earth
  • Part II. Pillars of the trade. The marketplace of devotion
  • Schoolmaster Bartjens
  • The life academic
  • The men on the cushions
  • Part III. True freedoms. The dangerous pleasures of leisure
  • Art and power
  • Bookshop of the world
  • The art of collecting
  • Part IV. Catastrophe and redemption. Boundaries
  • Our learned friends
  • The business press
  • The golden trade
  • Timeline
  • Endnotes
  • Bibliography
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Index.