Carnevali, Rebecca (2019) Cheap, everyday print : jobbing printing and its users in post-Tridentine Bologna. Volume I. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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This thesis explores the people and practices around cheap print in the city of Bologna between the end of the Council of Trent (1563) and the plague epidemic of 1630. In particular, it investigates the social and institutional actors that used cheap print, that is, its producers and distributors, the authorities who commissioned and regulated it, and its audience. The discussion of the ways in which this engagement took place will allow me to assess the role of each of the above actors in shaping the significance of cheap print within the city and the influence of printed ephemera on local everyday life. I analyse such an agency by looking at the interactions of practices, at the individual and collective level, and especially at the material implications of producing, distributing, and consuming cheap print.

With this in mind, my thesis has two main goals. The first is to unveil the creation and evolution of an interconnected urban network around cheap print by the middle of the seventeenth century, and how this network also informed the status and significance of cheap print within early modern Italy as well as the history of printing. The second is what this evolution can tell us about the political and social developments happening in Bologna during this particular historical moment. An increasing institutionalisation of the use of printed ephemera in state governance, policing, and bureaucracy by the local authorities, the shared experience at all social levels of cheap print as part of a wider everyday world of objects, and the substantial, continued support jobbing printing provided to printers and publishers through its connection with papermaking will be the most prominent aspects of the story of cheap print in post-Tridentine Bologna that my thesis sets to illuminate.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DG Italy Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z004 Books. Writing. Paleography
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Publishers and publishing -- Italy -- Bologna -- 16th century, Publishers and publishing -- Italy -- Bologna -- 17th century, Printing -- Italy -- Bologna -- History -- 16th century, Printing -- Italy -- Bologna -- History -- 17th century, Bologna (Italy) -- History -- Papal rule, 1506-1797
Official Date:	November 2019
Dates:	Date Event November 2019 UNSPECIFIED
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Centre for the Study of the Renaissance
Thesis Type:	PhD
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor:	Lines, David A. ; Salzberg, Rosa
Sponsors:	Wolfson Foundation
Format of File:	pdf
Extent:	389 leaves : map
Language:	eng

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