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In Readers' Hands
New Perspectives on Premodern Bibles in Europe
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This volume explores the production, transmission, and reading practices of vernacular Bibles in early modern Europe. This varied collection of essays provides historical, book historical, literary, theological, and art historical perspectives to the movements of manuscript and printed Bibles. The contributions concern Bibles in many different languages and from across the European continent, from Ireland to Portugal. Rather than perceiving Scripture and the material carriers of Scripture as static things, this volume demonstrates how Bibles constantly acquired new meanings and functions as they moved through time and space, and were touched by the hands of makers, readers, and users.
Sabrina Corbellini, PhD (2000, University of Leiden) is Professor of History of Reading in Premodern Europe. She specialises in the reconstruction of reading activities and libraries in early medieval Europe.
Wim François, PhD and STD (2004), is Professor of Early Modern Church and Theology and Academic Librarian of the Maurits Sabbe Library at KU Leuven. He has published extensively on the place of the Bible in early modern Catholicism, especially vernacular Bible translations, Latin Bible commentaries, and biblical plays.
Renske A. Hoff, PhD (2022, University of Groningen and KU Leuven) is Assistant Professor of Middle Dutch Literature at Utrecht University. She specialises in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century book history, with a particular focus on the use of religious manuscripts and early printed books.
Wim François, PhD and STD (2004), is Professor of Early Modern Church and Theology and Academic Librarian of the Maurits Sabbe Library at KU Leuven. He has published extensively on the place of the Bible in early modern Catholicism, especially vernacular Bible translations, Latin Bible commentaries, and biblical plays.
Renske A. Hoff, PhD (2022, University of Groningen and KU Leuven) is Assistant Professor of Middle Dutch Literature at Utrecht University. She specialises in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century book history, with a particular focus on the use of religious manuscripts and early printed books.
Contents
Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Premodern Bibles through Space and Time
â Sabrina Corbellini, Renske Hoff and Wim François
1 Navigating the Biblical Text: the Biblical Summary in Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cpg 110, Read as a Hypertext
â Henrike Manuwald
2 The 1528â29 Dutch Vorsterman Bibles: a Book Archeological Study of Owners and Readers
â Bert Tops
3 Transformative Actions: the Fluidity of Materiality and Meaning in Sixteenth-Century Dutch Bibles
â Renske Hoff
4 Vernacular Bibles and Their Catholic Readers in Sixteenth-Century France
â Mack P. Holt
5 Sixteenth-Century Polish-Lithuanian Biblical Prints and Bibles between West and East
â Joanna Pietrzak-Thébault
6 âThe Tune Then Usedâ: Psalm Verse Numeration and English Bible Readers
â Jeremy Specland
7 Interpolated Prints as Exegetical Meditative Glosses in a Customized Copy of Franciscus Costerusâs Dutch New Testament
â Walter S. Melion
8 From Medieval Scripture to Missionary Word: The Bible in Portuguese from Catholic to Protestant Hands (and Back)
â Herculano Alves, OFMCap and Wim François
9 Burning the Bible in Early Modern Ireland: the Rebellion of 1641
â Tadhg à hAnnracháin
10 On Using Indicators of Book Use
â Joshua Calhoun
Index
Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Premodern Bibles through Space and Time
â Sabrina Corbellini, Renske Hoff and Wim François
1 Navigating the Biblical Text: the Biblical Summary in Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cpg 110, Read as a Hypertext
â Henrike Manuwald
2 The 1528â29 Dutch Vorsterman Bibles: a Book Archeological Study of Owners and Readers
â Bert Tops
3 Transformative Actions: the Fluidity of Materiality and Meaning in Sixteenth-Century Dutch Bibles
â Renske Hoff
4 Vernacular Bibles and Their Catholic Readers in Sixteenth-Century France
â Mack P. Holt
5 Sixteenth-Century Polish-Lithuanian Biblical Prints and Bibles between West and East
â Joanna Pietrzak-Thébault
6 âThe Tune Then Usedâ: Psalm Verse Numeration and English Bible Readers
â Jeremy Specland
7 Interpolated Prints as Exegetical Meditative Glosses in a Customized Copy of Franciscus Costerusâs Dutch New Testament
â Walter S. Melion
8 From Medieval Scripture to Missionary Word: The Bible in Portuguese from Catholic to Protestant Hands (and Back)
â Herculano Alves, OFMCap and Wim François
9 Burning the Bible in Early Modern Ireland: the Rebellion of 1641
â Tadhg à hAnnracháin
10 On Using Indicators of Book Use
â Joshua Calhoun
Index
This book will be of particular interest to academics interested in early printed books, the history of reading, church history, biblical studies, and the reformation, as well as to anyone interested in the material (early modern) book. Keywords: Bible reading; history of reading; early modern printing; Europe; book history; marginalia; readersâ traces; paratext; church history; history of religion; Reformation history; early modern Christianity; early modern Protestantism; early modern Catholicism; renaissance; material book culture.