Learning and the market place : essays in the history of the early modern book / by Ian Maclean.

Leiden : Brill, 2009.

xii, 457 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

The market for scholarly books and conceptions of genre in Northern Europe, 1570-1630 -- The readership of philosophical fictions in France in the sixteenth century : the bibliographical evidence -- Mediations of Zabarella in northern Germany, 1586-1623 -- The diffusion of learned medicine in the sixteenth century through the printed book -- The reception of medieval practical medicine in the sixteenth century : the case of Arnau de Vilanova -- Melanchthon at the book fairs, 1560-1601 : editors, markets and religious strife -- Cardano and his publishers, 1534-1663 -- André Wechel at Frankfurt, 1572-1581 -- Murder, debt and retribution in the Italico-Franco-Spanish book trade : the Beraud-Michel-Ruiz affair, 1586-1591 -- Competitors or collaborators? Sebastian Gryphius and his colleagues in Lyon, 1528-1556 -- Alberico Gentili, his publishers, and the vagaries of the book trade between England and Germany, 1580-1614 -- English books on the continent, 1570-1630 -- 'Lusitani periti' : Portuguese medical authors, national identity and bibliography in the late Renaissance -- Louis Jacob de Saint-Charles (1608-1670) and the development of specialist bibliography.

Includes bibliographical references and index.