Papal bull : print, politics, and propaganda in Renaissance Rome /

Papal bull : print, politics, and propaganda in Renaissance Rome /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Meserve, Margaret, author.
Imprint:	Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. ©2021
Description:	xii, 437 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Singleton Center books in premodern Europe Singleton Center books in premodern Europe.
Subject:	Catholic Church -- Publishing -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- To 1500. Catholic Church -- Publishing -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- 16th century. Printing -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- Origin and antecedents. Printing -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- 16th century. Book industries and trade -- Political aspects -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- To 1500. Book industries and trade -- Political aspects -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- 16th century. Bulls, Papal. Book industries and trade -- Political aspects Bulls, Papal Printing Printing -- Origin and antecedents Italy -- Rome History
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12615621

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ISBN:	9781421440446 142144044X 9781421440453
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This work of history examines how the Renaissance popes adopted print as a medium for political discourse in the first decades after the technology's invention (ca. 1470-1520). Drawing on literary and material analyses of dozens of little-known incunabula and early sixteenth-century editions, this study argues that the Renaissance papacy was an early adopter of print and keenly attuned to its political potential"--
Other form:	ebook version : 9781421440453

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Urbi et orbi
2. Humanists, Printers, and Others
3. Sixtus IV and His Pamphlet Wars
4. Broadsides in Basel
5. The Holy Face, Imprinted and in Print
6. Refugee Relics
7. Kissing the Papal Foot
8. Brand Julius
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
Index