Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe—A Contribution to the History of Printing and the Book Trade in Small European and Spanish Cities

Despite the fact that, if only by number, small and peripheral cities played an important role in fifteenth and sixteenth-century European print culture, book history has mainly been dominated by monographs on individual big book centres. Through a number of specific case studies, which deploy a variety of methods and a wide range of sources, this volume seeks to enhance our understanding of printing and the book trade in small and peripheral European cities in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and to emphasize the necessity of new research for the study of print culture in such cities.

Benito Rial Costas, Ph.D. (2006) in Spanish Philology, University of Santiago de Compostela, is an independent scholar based in Italy. He has published on print culture in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, including Produccion y comercio del libro (2007).Contributors include: Falk Eisermann, Paul F. Gehl, John Hinks, Natalia Maillard Alvarez, Ian Maxted, Hubert Meeus, Jaime Moll, Istvan Monok, Marta M. Nadales, Jose Manuel Pedraza Gracia, Manuel Pena Diaz, Rafael M. Perez Garcia, Giancarlo Petrella, Fermin de los Reyes, Benito Rial Costas, Anastasio Rojo Vega, Pablo Sanchez Leon, Wolfgang Undorf, and Malcolm Walsby.