‘Things Worthy of Being Known’: The Reception and Consumption of the Press in Catalonia During the First Half of the Seventeenth Century

2017 ◽  
pp. 259-276
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
The Press

Consort Music Manuscripts in Archbishop Marsh's Library, Dublin

1976 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 27-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Charteris
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
The Press ◽  
Music Manuscripts ◽  
Music Books

Archbishop Marsh's Library, otherwise known as the Library of St. Sepulchre, is adjacent to St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and was founded in 1704 by Narcissus Marsh D. D. (1638–1713), Archbishop of Armagh. Today the library contains over 20, 000 books and 300 manuscripts; the manuscripts and special books, including some music books, are located in the manuscript room, which is on the main landing before entering the first gallery of the library - all items in the manuscript room bear the press mark ‘Z’. To be found among the general holdings is a small, but valuable, collection of music manuscripts and printed books on music; some of the items were collected by Marsh himself, and date from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Among the seventeenth-century manuscripts is a group which contains instrumental consort music, and these are the ones which will be discussed in this article.

Foundations of Religious Reform (Islah) and Cultural Revival (Nahda)

2020 ◽  
pp. 38-67
Author(s):  
Dyala Hamzah
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Cultural Revival ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
Islamic Reform ◽  
The Press ◽  
Arabic Speaking ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses the foundations of hegemonic reform and cultural revival discourses in the Arabic-speaking lands of the modern Middle East from the perspective of the most recent forays in scholarly fields such as Islamic and Ottoman studies. Teasing out periodization and geographies, it grounds the thought and practice of canonical and less canonical actors in the historical public sphere in which they operated, questioning the relationship between the Nahda and the Tanzimat, the Nahda and eighteenth-century revivalism, the Nahda and the seventeenth-century Arab-Islamic florescence, as well as the special status accorded “Islamic” reform within the Nahda. Finally, it probes the larger questions of modernity, subjectivity, and citizenship between the onset of the protectorates and the termination of the mandates, as these became encrypted within the major ideologies (pan-Islam, pan-Arabism, territorial nationalisms) and enacted through the most significant technologies mobilized by the actors (the press, the associations, the parties, and the schools).

Toasting and the diffusion of radical ideas, 1780–1832

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rémy Duthille
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Social Values ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Continuity ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press ◽  
Radical Ideas

The 1780s saw the institutionalisation of radical dinners and the regular publication of toast lists in the press. Drawing upon archival evidence, in particular the minute books of the Society for Constitutional Information, Rémy Duthille analyses toasts as speech acts and as rituals of interaction, for toasting performed an integrative function in radical societies, fostering solidarity and mobilisation. He identifies the nature of these toasts, which were often used as rituals of remembrance that helped to build a sense of historical continuity with seventeenth-century England. Duthille uses examples of toast lists given in the contemporary press, including toasts drunk in France and in the United States. He analyses the linguistic structure of toasts and investigates the social values associated with toasts, in terms of what was regarded as acceptable or unacceptable social behaviour.

A Typographical Odyssey: The 1505 Constantinople Pentateuch

1991 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-351
Author(s):  
Nigel Allan
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
The Press

Although the Wellcome Collection of Hebraica does not constitute one of the larger and more distinguished collections of oriental material in the Wellcome Institute, it nevertheless comprises a number of important manuscripts along with early printed books representative of several sixteenth and seventeenth-century Hebrew presses. One of these is a fragment of a larger work printed in Constantinople in 1505 at the press of David and Samuel Nahmias. It is the second earliest example of printing in Turkey, the first also coming from the press of the Nahmias brothers.

scholarly journals Cromwell's Edinburgh Press and the Development of Print Culture in Scotland

2011 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Scott Spurlock
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Printing Industry ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
The Press ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Printed Word

Alasdair Mann, the noted scholar of book culture in early modern Scotland, has suggested that a significant change had occurred in Scotland's relationship with the printed word by the late seventeenth century. This study sets out to explain how the interregnum served as a ‘watershed’ during which a consumer demand was created for popular print and how this in turn necessitated a significant increase in the production and distribution of printed material. Beginning with the sale of the press and patent of Evan Tyler to the London Stationers’ Company in 1647, the article charts the key factors that transformed Scotland's printing industry from the production of official declarations and works for foreign markets to the production of polemical texts for a Scottish audience. These developments also witnessed publication of the first serial news journal and the growth of a competitive market for up-to-date printed news. More than just an anomaly that flourished during a decade of occupation, these fundamental changes altered Scotland by introducing the large-scale consumption of chapbooks and printed ephemera, thereby initiating the nation's enduring print culture.

A Spanish Farce of the Early Sixteenth Century

PMLA ◽  
1909 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
J. P. Wickersham Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Ciudad Real ◽  
The Press ◽  
Jorge De Montemayor ◽  
First Time

This farce, which is here published for the first time, is found in a collection of manuscript poetry in the Biblioteca Nacional of Madrid with the press mark 2621. It bears number 1239 in Sr. Paz y Melia's catalogue of plays in the Biblioteca Nacional. The handwriting is of the early sixteenth century. The volume contains poems, for the most part anonymous, of the sixteenth century, in Castilian and Catalan. On the first page, in a hand of the seventeenth century, we read: “En este libro ay poesias de Jorge de Montemayor, de Juan Fernandez, de D. Luis Margarit, de D. Luis de Milan, de D. Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, de N. Torrellas, de D. Hernando de Acuña, de Alvaro Gomez de Ciudad Real y de otros autores inciertos.”

Francis Kirkman's Counterfeit Authority: Autobiography, Subjectivity, Print

PMLA ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 121 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jody Greene
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
The Self ◽  
Literary Authority ◽  
The Press ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ultimate Failure ◽  
Authorial Persona

This essay explores the relation between print culture and literary authority in seventeenth-century England, through the career of the rogue author, translator, and autobiographer Francis Kirkman. Barred from traditional forms of authority by his middle-class birth and rudimentary education, Kirkman claimed new forms of self-authorization promised by the press. In his autobiography, The Unlucky Citizen, as well as in his biography of the impersonator Mary Carleton, the self-styled “German Princess,” Kirkman developed strategies of counterfeiting authority to compensate for the traditional entitlements he, like Carleton, lacked. These strategies involved harnessing the press to circulate authoritative versions of his authorial persona that were intended to substitute for his unauthorized status. Kirkman's ultimate failure to “gain some Reputation by being in Print” is instructive for scholars interested in the history of autobiography and in the changing conditions of authorship in the first era of print culture. (JG)

‘Defying the Powers and Tempering the Spirit.’ A Review of Quaker Control over their Publications 1672–1689

1982 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas O'Malley
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Representative Democracy ◽  
The Press ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

The role of the press in the history of post-Restoration nonconformity has gone largely unexplored. Indeed, the study of the press in the late seventeenth century has suffered from a lack of serious attention by historians and from a certain narrowness of vision in the otherwise excellent bibliographical work on the period. Bibliographers have tended to study books and printers in isolation from the world that the objects of their study inhabited. Historians have a tendency to see the press as mirroring the struggle for the growth of representative democracy and as playing an important part in national political and religious history only at times of maximum crisis, such as 1659–60 or 1679–81. Historians of Quakerism, although aware that the early Quakers made extensive use of printing, have neither detailed the extent of that involvement nor assessed its implications on a wider level. This article is written in an attempt to remedy, to some extent, these deficiencies.

Some hitherto unknown facts about the private career of Henry Oldenburg

1963 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-103 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Scientific Enterprise ◽  
Ample Evidence ◽  
Exact Date ◽  
The Press ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Biography

The main outlines of Henry Oldenburg’s public career have long been known: ample evidence of bis activity as working secretary of the Royal Society from early in its history until his death in 1677 is furnished by Birch’s History of the Royal Society , by the very existence of the early volumes of the Philosophical Transactions , and by the archives of the Society. As we hope to show by editing Oldenburg’s correspondence in extenso , his exchange of letters with hundreds of learned men provides a valuable source for an understanding of the way in which scientific enterprise was conducted in the seventeenth century as well as for the understanding of many obscure points of the development of scientific thought. The correspondence also provides materials relating to Oldenburg’s own career. In spite of the detailed account in the Dictionary of National Biography , which made use of material collected from the Bremen Archives for information touching his ancestry, education and diplomatic career, Oldenburg’s private life has remained remarkably enigmatic. For example the exact date of his birth is unknown, his activities between the end of his formal education (1639) and his appearance as a diplomat in England (1653) hitherto untraced, his first wife’s name apparently unrecorded, and his means of livelihood mysterious. In the course of preparing for the press the first volume of our projected edition (to the end of 1662) we have found clues to illuminate the first two problems; work on the next two volumes (1663-5, and 1666-7, respectively) has illuminated the two latter problems.

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