Conference program
Venue: ‘Spiegelsaal’ at Friedenstein Palace, Gotha
Wednesday 28.5.2014
17:00-17.15 Welcome (‘Spiegelsaal’ at Friedenstein Palace) Martin Mulsow, Director of the Gotha Research Centre, Daniel Bellingradt and Jeroen Salman, Organisers
17.15-17.30 Introduction: Books in motion. Book history in motion (Daniel Bellingradt, Jeroen Salman)
17.30-18.15 Evening lecture: The European identity of ‘Joannis MiltonI Angli Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio’, 1651 (Joad Raymond, London)
Thursday 29.5.2014
Session 1: Production (Chair: Daniel Bellingradt, Erfurt)
9.00-9.45 First woman in the process of book production in Livonia: the case of Ursula Krüger and Daniel Hermann, 1614-1615 (Kristi Viiding, Tartu)
9.45-10.15 Creating the nation's nature: Jan Christiaan Sepp's Publishing projects on the flora and fauna of the Netherlands,1760-1811 (Esther van Gelder, Utrecht)
10.30-11.15 Promoting the Counter-Reformation in provincial France: Printing and book selling in sixteenth-century Verdun (Malcolm Walsby, Rennes)
11.15-12.00 Conrad Gessner and the making of a universal library (Paul Nelles, Ottawa)
13.45-14.30 Signs of Life. European printed genealogical diagramms from 1450-1800 (Giles Bergel, Oxford)
14.30-15.15 Paper networks. Cooperation and competition of paper trade networks in the eighteenth-century (Daniel Bellingradt, Erfurt)
15.30-16.15 Shaping new tastes: Ottoman book market and the Muteferrika Press, 1726-1746 (Orlin Sabev, Sofia)
16.15-17.00 Session discussant Andrew Pettegree (St. Andrews) and General discussion
Session 2: Circulation
(Chair: Martin Mulsow, Gotha)
17.15-18.00 Printing laws in the fifteenth-century: A case study of the interactions between printing and crown (Benito Rial Costas, Madrid)
18.00-18.45 Vienna as focus of the book trade in the Habsburg Monarchy in the eighteenth-century (Johannes Frimmel, Munich)
Friday 30.5.2014
9.00-9.45 Links between newspapers and the book trade. The case of an early media tycoon in late eighteenth-century Central Europe (Andreas Golob, Graz)
9.45-10.30 The dynamics between word and image in Dutch News periodicals, c. 1650-1750: Publishers and artists of title prints as a case (Joop W. Koopmans, Groningen)
10.45-11.30 The paradox of scientific progress. The dissemination of popular medical books in the Dutch Republic (Jeroen Salman, Utrecht)
11.30-12.15 Procès Romanesque.The suspicious death of Théodore Rilliet de Saussure and the crisis of European publishing, 1777-1789 (Mark Curran, London)
14.00-14.45 The market for heterodox religious books, 1600-1670 (Leigh Penman, Oxford)
14.45-15.30 Session discussant: Joad Raymond (London) and General discussion
Session 3: Consumption (Chair: Jeroen Salman, Utrecht)
16.00-16.45 A German reader of Mariken van Nieumeghen and other middle Dutch tracts (Arjan van Dixhoorn, Gent/Utrecht)
16.45-17.30 Pocket books and portable writing in Eighteenth-Century England and Wales (Stephen Colclough, Bangor)
Saturday 31.5.2014
9.00-9.45 Between trade and scholarship: English books and Baltic Readers (Mark Bland, Leicester)
9.45-10.30 Ecclesiastical manuals in Lutheran countries, c. 1530-1830 (Jürgen Beyer, Tartu)
10.45-11.30 Books and book ownership in the Dutch Atlantic world (Michiel van Groesen, Amsterdam)
11.30-12.15 Tracing the source: ways of referencing in Dutch manuscript miscellanies, 1550-1850 (Nelleke Moser, Amsterdam)
13.00-13.45 Printed in Europe, consumed in Ottoman lands: the export and reception of European books in the Middle East, 1514-1842 (Geoffrey Roper, London)
13.45-14.30 Session discussant: Martin Mulsow (Gotha) and General discussion