scholarly journals Sellers and Buyers of the Lyon Book Market in the Late 15th Century

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monique Hulvey
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Book Production ◽  
Banking Services ◽  
Spheres Of Influence ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
The City ◽  
Material Evidence

Without a university or parliament, Lyon became an important centre of book production and distribution over the last quarter of the fifteenth century. In the course of these years, favourable economic conditions with the development of a fourth annual fair and elaborate banking services, turned the provincial merchant town into a European marketplace. Constant movement of people, goods, and money, as well as a ten-year tax exemption for newcomers to the printing business, attracted printers and booksellers who placed Lyon at the heart of networks operating near and far. Contemporary material evidence from the buyers’ side documents the markets targeted by the Lyon book merchants during this key period, some of their strategies, and skills at time and distance management. It also suggests how, in their spheres of influence, the development of the book trade could have played a part in the evolution of urban and rural society. With little archival evidence at hand, we need to reassess the larger organisation of the Lyon book trade in the international landscape and the part played by the importation of books. A mapping of available data, and observations on bindings and provenance, is helping to define the role of the city in the circulation of books, printed locally or elsewhere, throughout France.

The Edinburgh Book Trade and Vernacular Literature, 1500–1660

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-96
Author(s):  
Adam Fox
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Vernacular Literature ◽  
Extensive Range ◽  
The City ◽  
Shed Light

Chapter 2 surveys the development of the book trade in Edinburgh during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries with a particular emphasis on the production and circulation of more popular works in Scots and English. It traces the development of printing in Edinburgh, looks at the expansion of booksellers in the city, and examines the role of travelling chapmen in disseminating literature across Scotland and into England. The remarkable inventories of Thomas Bassandyne and Robert Gourlaw are examined in some detail in order to shed light on the extensive range of vernacular literature from the London market that was being sold in the Scottish capital in the later sixteenth century.

scholarly journals It’s All in the Reading

Arts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Déirdre Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Mass Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Book Production ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

It seems inherent in the nature of contemporary artist’s book production to continue to question the context for the genre in contemporary art practice, notwithstanding the medium’s potential for dissemination via mass production and an unquestionable advantage of portability for distribution. Artists, curators and editors operating in this sector look to create contexts for books in a variety of imaginative ways, through exhibition, commission, installations, performance and, of course as documentation. Broadening the discussion of the idea of the book within contemporary art practice, this paper examines the presence and role of book works within the context of the art biennale, in particular the Venice Art Biennale of which the 58th iteration (2019) is entitled ‘May You Live In Interesting Times’ and curated by Ralph Rugoff, with an overview of the independent International cultural offerings and the function of the ‘Book Pavilion’. Venetian museums and institutions continue to present vibrant diverse works within the arena of large-scale exhibitions, recognising the position that the book occupies in the history of the city. This year, the appearance for the first time, of ‘Book Biennale’, opens up a new and interesting dialogue, taking the measure of how the book is being promoted and its particular function for visual communication within the arts in Venice and beyond.

Book Trade

2020 ◽  
pp. 710-722
Author(s):  
Guglielmo Cavallo
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Book Production ◽  
Domestic Production

The evidence for Latin book production in the first centuries of the empire exhibits a diversity of technical levels especially in the quality of writing. The surviving fragments of early Latin books are discussed in relation to the historiographcial sources that mention the book trade, the audience for books, and the price of books, the location of book shops in Rome, and the trade outside of Rome both for new books and for used ones. The author discusses also the changes in the book trade in Late Antiquity, including the influence of Christianity, a greater domestic production of books, and the role of monks as scribes for hire.

The Gaulish past of Milan and the French invasion of Italy1

2018 ◽  
pp. 102-120
Author(s):  
Oren Margolis
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Foundation Myth ◽  
Italian City ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Italian Wars ◽  
The City ◽  
Source Materials

The foundation myths of late medieval cities and states were never simply about origins: they were above all about destiny. In the fifteenth century, the combination of humanist methods and models, newly available source materials, and changing domestic and international political circumstances provided the impetus for the continued development of these myths as well as the creation of new ones. Yet even in Italy, not all eyes looked to Rome. The Carolingian foundation myth of Florence, in which Charlemagne’s supposed rebuilding of the city was used to explain the pro-French orientation of the commune and its Guelph elite, is perhaps the most well-known of these myths, but also an example of an Italian city defining itself in relation to a foreign power. This essay focuses on another element of Quattrocento myth-making culture: the treatment of northern Italy’s Gaulish past in the writings of some of the region’s humanists (e.g. (Antonio Cornazzano and Alberto Cattaneo), and the role of these writings in Franco-Milanese relations before and during the outbreak of the Italian Wars and the French domination of Milan.

scholarly journals Costabili Palace and the Architecture “All’Antica” in Ferrara at the End of the XV Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (special issue) ◽  
pp. 173-198
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Building Site ◽  
Eastern Area ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Stylistic Elements ◽  
History Of ◽  
Architectural Language ◽  
The City ◽  
Masonry Units

Costabili Palace, also known as Ludovico “il Moro” (Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan) Palace, is located in Ferrara on the ancient Ghiara road, occupying the corner that it forms with via Porta d'Amore, in the south-eastern area of the city. Attributed to the architect Biagio Rossetti (1447-1516) it represents, by size and formal wealth, begun but never completed, the most ambitious palace of the Renaissance in Ferrara. Commissioned by Count Antonio Costabili (1450-1527) at the end of the Fifteenth century, the construction was interrupted in 1503. Of four sides of its court only two were built in their rich and cultured architectural language, and only half of the main façade was sketched. Through the unpublished archival research carried out, crossed with the direct study of the building by surveying the relevant stylistic elements, helped by a proportional analysis and the reading of the stratigraphic masonry units, this doctoral research retraces the history of the construction. This work has clarified the role of the artists involved and their relationship with the strong personality of the client Antonio Costabili, ambassador in Milan of the Duke of Ferrara (Ercole I d’Este) from the year 1496 until the year 1499, one of the most representative intellectuals of his time thanks to a solid humanistic and artistic education. From a systematic study of an unfinished building site the precise design of the Costabili Palace will emerge as expression of a clear linguistic and lexical intention, called “all’antica”, inspired to the Roman classical architecture. The proposed research is wondering about the real contribution that the architectural culture in Ferrara at the end of the Fifteenth century, highly represented by the Costabili Palace, offers to the broader context of the Renaissance courts.

scholarly journals The Role of Charitable Activity in the Formation of Vilnius Society in the 14th to mid-16th Centuries

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.C. Rowell
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Medical Doctor ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Mary Magdalene ◽  
Late Fifteenth ◽  
Grand Duchy Of Lithuania ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

This article examines the development of charitable activity in the city of Vilnius and elsewhere in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania before the middle of the sixteenth century by studying the foundation of almshouses to care for the poor and destitute and foster the memory and salvation of pious benefactors. Almshouse foundations developed from increasing forms of practical piety within the GDL from the late fifteenth century, following earlier west European and Polish models. The first, dedicated to traditional patrons of such institutions, St Job and St Mary Magdalene, was founded by a Vilnius canon and medical doctor, Martin of Duszniki with the support of the monarch, Sigismund the Old, and his counsellors between 1518 and 1522. The almshouse swiftly became an established part of the city’s sacral topography. The fashion was adopted by Eastern Orthodox parishes in Vilnius too, and later spread to other confessional groups. Twelve charters are published for the first time in an appendix.

scholarly journals (The impact of electronic marketing on the elements of the marketing mix of the banking service (study of banks in the city of Karak: أثر التسويق الالكتروني على عناصر المزيج التسويقي للخدمة المصرفية (دراسة للمصارف في مدينة الكرك )

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tayseer Ali Khalaf Al Momani
Keyword(s):  
Marketing Mix ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Banking Services ◽  
Banking Service ◽  
Electronic Marketing ◽  
Marketing Operations ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

E-marketing is one of basic contemporary concepts, which has managed during the last few years of the current millennium to jump in all efforts and marketing and various activities to contemporary trends in line with the current era and its variables. The objective of the study is to reveal the role of e-marketing in influencing the elements of the marketing mix of the banking service by using various tools and advanced means and modern technology in the implementation of marketing operations and activities, especially with regard to marketing communications and information technology and the delivery of products as well as the completion of marketing operations through multiple means, making priority to market banking services to various parties through these means. The importance of the study comes from the role of marketing in banking particularly in electronic marketing in achieving the bank's marketing goals through the use of the Internet. The researcher depends on one major hypothesis aims primarily at knowing the impact of electronic marketing on the elements of marketing mix of banking services in commercial banks in Karak, and this study is a theoretical one in which the researcher depends on inductive and deductive methods. One of the most important results of this study that current banking service does not work according to modern trends in electronic marketing, such as the use of computers and other technologies in the production and design of banking services. One of the most important recommendations is the use of electronic devices and equipment in producing, designing and presenting banking services of the sample study as well as the use of electronic marketing techniques in this field because of its positive and enriched impact.

scholarly journals Przyczynki źródłowe do dziejów szpitala św. Elżbiety w Starym Mieście Gdańsku z lat 1429–1454

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 305-323
Author(s):  
Rafał Kubicki
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Old City ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The City

Source input to the history of St. Elisabeth hospital in The Old City of Gdańsk in the years 1429–1454 The subject of this edition are sources regarding the hospital of St. Elisabeth in the Old City of Gdańsk in the years 1429–1454 deposited in archives in Gdańsk and Berlin. They present various aspects of the institution’s operations in the first half of the 15th century. Alongside issues pertaining to the confirmation of its land estate border (no. 1), individual bestowals on its behalf conducted by assorted donors (no. 2, 5, 7, 8, 12) and the management of the hospital’s inventory (no. 4), it also contains documents confirming agreements of lifetime residencies in the hospital (no. 9, 10, 11). We also have here accounts created in reference to the foundation of vicarage in the hospital chapel (no. 3) and the matters of personnel working in the service of the hospital (no. 6). All of them show the complexity of issues the persons connected with the institution handled, most of all in the case of the hospitaler, and alongside him the commander of Gdańsk, who somewhat held a supervising function on behalf of the Teutonic Order. They also confirm the important role of women in terms of nurturing care provided by the hospital, including primarily the head of the female personnel, here referred to as the mother or the mother of the poor. On the other hand, they are also a testimony to the social significance of the institution in the city, presenting the circle of people closely connected to her at the time.

On the role of the dispute between "non-possessors" and "Josephites" in the culture of Moscow's prediction

1998 ◽  
pp. 61-62
Author(s):  
N. S. Jurtueva
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Moral Transformation ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
The Future ◽  
Secular Power

In the XIV century. centripetal tendencies began to appear in the Moscow principality. Inside the Russian church, several areas were distinguished. Part of the clergy supported the specificobar form. The other understood the need for transformations in society. As a result, this led to a split in the Russian church in the 15th century for "non-possessors" and "Josephites". The former linked the fate of the future with the ideology of hesychasm and its moral transformation, while the latter sought support in alliance with a strong secular power.

A glimpse from the ancient world: What a gold necklace from Tillya-tepe reveals about opium in Afghanistan

Afghanistan ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-173
Author(s):  
Sara Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Opium Poppy ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Cultural Importance ◽  
Large Seed ◽  
Potent Drug ◽  
Material Evidence ◽  
Societal Role

Among the six excavated burials at Tillya-tepe, in northern Afghanistan, was one occupied by an elite woman wearing a substantial necklace consisting of large gold beads shaped as seed-heads. The scale and fine workmanship of this necklace suggest that it was one of her most important possessions. It can be demonstrated that these large seed-heads are representations of poppy capsules, whose significance lies in the fact that they are the source of the potent drug opium. This necklace is the most outstanding object within a group of items decorated with poppy imagery, all of which were discovered in female burials. The opium poppy has long been a culturally important plant, and the implication of this identification is investigated in several contexts. Firstly, the proliferation of poppy imagery in the female burials at Tillya-tepe is examined, and then there is a discussion of material evidence for opium among relevant peoples along the Eurasian steppes. The particular cultural importance of opium is reviewed, leading finally to a proposal for the societal role of these women.

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