Skip to product information
Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe The Clandestine Trade In Illegal Book Collections
Sale price
$58.49
Regular price $64.99
Reliable shipping
Flexible returns
New Directions in Book History
Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe
The Clandestine Trade In Illegal Book Collections
Daniel Bellingradt | Bernd-Christian Otto
Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / General
Uses an eighteenth century German case-study to examine the clandestine, and sometimes illegal, practices of the early modern European book trade
Addresses questions of censorship regimes and efficiency, of the textual-ritual tradition and eventual canon formations of ‘Western learned magic’, and of the status and use of handwritten books in an alleged ‘age of print’
Provides a methodological pathway towards an interdisciplinary, integrative, and thus more comprehensive analysis of books of ‘learned magic’ in and beyond early modern times
Daniel Bellingradt is Professor of Book Studies at Erlangen-Nuremberg University, Germany, co-editor of the German Yearbook for the History of Communications, and co-editor of Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe. Beyond Production, Circulation and Consumption (2017).
Bernd-Christian Otto is postdoctoral researcher at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany. His book publications include Magie. Rezeptions- und diskursgeschichtliche Analysen von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit (2011), and, as co-editor, Defining Magic: A Reader (2013), and History and Religion: Narrating a Religious Past (2015).
| Publication Date: | 10 August 2018 |
| Publisher: | Springer International Publishing |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| ISBN-13: | 9783319866444 |
| Format: | Paperback softback |
| Page Count: | 166 |