Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800) Nina Lamal, Jamie Cumby, and Helmer J. Helmers - 978-90-04-44889-6 Downloaded from Brill.com07/06/2021 12:38:50PM via Koninklijke Bibliotheek Library of the Written Word volume 92 The Handpress World Editor-in-Chief Andrew Pettegree (University of St Andrews) Editorial Board Ann Blair (Harvard University) Falk Eisermann (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preuβischer Kulturbesitz) Shanti Graheli (University of Glasgow) Earle Havens (Johns Hopkins University) Ian Maclean (All Souls College, Oxford) Alicia Montoya (Radboud University) Angela Nuovo (University of Milan) Helen Smith (University of York) Mark Towsey (University of Liverpool) Malcolm Walsby (ENSSIB, Lyon) Arthur der Weduwen (University of St Andrews) volume 73 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/lww Nina Lamal, Jamie Cumby, and Helmer J. Helmers - 978-90-04-44889-6 Downloaded from Brill.com07/06/2021 12:38:50PM via Koninklijke Bibliotheek Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800) Edited by Nina Lamal Jamie Cumby Helmer J. Helmers LEIDEN | BOSTON Nina Lamal, Jamie Cumby, and Helmer J. Helmers - 978-90-04-44889-6 Downloaded from Brill.com07/06/2021 12:38:50PM via Koninklijke Bibliotheek This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided no alterations are made and the original author(s) and source are credited. Further information and the complete license text can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The terms of the CC license apply only to the original material. The use of material from other sources (indicated by a reference) such as diagrams, illustrations, photos and text samples may require further permission from the respective copyright holder. Cover illustration: Minerva with a printing press. Detail from Jacob van der Schley, ‘Allegory of the art of printing’. Frontispiece for Prosper Marchand, Histoire de l’origine et des prémiers progrès de l’imprimerie (The Hague: Pieter Paupie, 1740). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam RP-P-OB-67.367. See illustration 0.1 for full frontispiece. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Lamal, Nina, editor. | Cumby, Jamie, editor. | Helmers, Helmer J., 1977–editor. Title: Print and power in early modern Europe (1500–1800) / edited by Nina Lamal, Jamie Cumby, Helmer J. Helmers. Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] | Series: Library of the written word, 1874–4834 ; volume 92 | Includes index. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021013315 (print) | LCCN 2021013316 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004448889 (hardback ; acid-free paper) | ISBN 9789004448896 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Printing – Europe – History. | Printing – Political aspects – Europe – History. | Communication in politics – Europe – History. | Religion and religious literature – Europe – History. Classification: LCC Z124 .P8625 2021 (print) | LCC Z124 (ebook) | DDC 686.2094 – dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021013315 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021013316 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN 1874-4834 ISBN 978-90-04-44888-9 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-44889-6 (e-book) Copyright 2021 by Nina Lamal, Jamie Cumby and Helmer J. Helmers. Published by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. 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Helmers - 978-90-04-44889-6 Downloaded from Brill.com07/06/2021 12:38:50PM via Koninklijke Bibliotheek Contents List of Figures and Tables ix Notes on Contributors xiii Introduction: The Printing Press as an Agent of Power 1 Helmer Helmers, Nina Lamal and Jamie Cumby part 1 Governing through Print 1 Policing in Print: Social Control in Spanish and Borromean Milan (1535–1584) 21 Rachel Midura 2 On Printing and Decision-Making: The Management of Information by the City Powers of Lyon (ca. 1550–ca. 1580) 47 Gautier Mingous 3 Printing for Central Authorities in the Early Modern Low Countries (15th–17th Centuries) 64 Renaud Adam 4 Rural Officials Discover the Printing Press in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy 86 Andreas Golob part 2 Printing for Government 5 Printing for the Reformation: The Canonical Documents of the Edwardian Church of England, 1547–1553 111 Celyn Richards 6 Newspapers and Authorities in Seventeenth-Century Germany 134 Jan Hillgärtner Nina Lamal, Jamie Cumby, and Helmer J. Helmers - 978-90-04-44889-6 Downloaded from Brill.com07/06/2021 12:38:50PM via Koninklijke Bibliotheek vi Contents 7 The Politics of Print in the Dutch Golden Age: The Ommelander Troubles (c. 1630–1680) 148 Arthur der Weduwen part 3 Patronage and Prestige 8 The Rise of the Stampatore Camerale: Printers and Power in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome 181 Paolo Sachet 9 State and Church Sponsored Printing by Jan Januszowski and His Drukarnia Łazarzowa (Officina Lazari) in Krakow 202 Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba 10 Ferdinando de’ Medici and the Typographia Medicea 220 Caren Reimann 11 Royal Patronage of Illicit Print: Catherine of Braganza and Catholic Books in Late Seventeenth-Century London 239 Chelsea Reutcke part 4 Power of Persuasion 12 The Papacy, Power, and Print: The Publication of Papal Decrees in the First Fifty Years of Printing 259 Margaret Meserve 13 Pictures and Power: The Visual Prints of Frans Hogenberg 300 Ramon Voges 14 Collecting ‘Toute l’Angleterre’: English Books, Soft Power and Spanish Diplomacy at the Casa del Sol (1613–1622) 316 Ernesto Oyarbide Magaña 15 Prohibition as Propaganda Technique: The Case of the Pamphlet La couronne usurpée et le prince supposé (1688) 338 Rindert Jagersma Nina Lamal, Jamie Cumby, and Helmer J. Helmers - 978-90-04-44889-6 Downloaded from Brill.com07/06/2021 12:38:50PM via Koninklijke Bibliotheek Contents vii part 5 Religious Authority 16 Illustrating Authority: The Creation and Reception of an English Protestant Iconography 361 Nora Epstein 17 Between Ego Documents and Anti-Catholic Propaganda: Printed Revocation Sermons in Seventeenth-Century Lutheran Germany 390 Martin Christ 18 Learned Servants: Dutch Ministers, Their Books and the Struggle for a Reformed Republic in the Dutch Golden Age 407 Forrest C. Strickland Index 431 Nina Lamal, Jamie Cumby, and Helmer J. Helmers - 978-90-04-44889-6 Downloaded from Brill.com07/06/2021 12:38:50PM via Koninklijke Bibliotheek Nina Lamal, Jamie Cumby, and Helmer J. Helmers - 978-90-04-44889-6 Downloaded from Brill.com07/06/2021 12:38:50PM via Koninklijke Bibliotheek Figures and Tables Figures 0.1 Jacob van der Schley, ‘Allegory of the art of printing’. Frontispiece for Prosper Marchand, Histoire de l’origine et des prémiers progrès de l’imprimerie (The Hague: Pieter Paupie, 1740). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam RP-P-OB-67.367 2 1.1 Edict of 6 June 1549 ASMi, Atti di governo, Sanità parte moderna, busta 3. Reproduced with permission of the Archivio di Stato di Milano 29 1.2 Edict of 12 September 1563 ASMi, Atti di governo, Sanità parte moderna, busta 3. Reproduced with permission of the Archivio di Stato di Milano 31 1.3 Detail of Edict of 12 September 1563 32 1.4 Giovanni Battista Crespi (Cerano), San Carlo Borromeo consola gli appestati alle capanne (1602). Hung in the Duomo of Milan as a part of a series of scenes from the life of San Carlo Borromeo. Reproduced with permission of the Fondazione Zeri 35 1.5 Edict of 21 June 1576 in ASMi, Atti di governo, Sanità, busta 3. Reproduced with permission of the Archivio di Stato di Milano 41 2.1 Ordonnance de Messieurs les Seneschal & gens tenans le siege Presidial en la ville de Lyon (1568), title page. Musée de l’Imprimerie et de la communication graphique de Lyon. All rights reserved 53 2.2 Strategic locations where print was displayed in 1568 56 2.3 Ordonnance de Messieurs les Seneschal & gens tenans le siege Presidial en la ville de Lyon, Musée de l’Imprimerie et de la communication graphique de Lyon. All rights reserved 59 7.1 The Ommelander broadsheet of 9 December 1642, condemning the attacks of the Groningen magistrate Rudolf Schuringh. Groninger Archieven, Groningen 149 7.2 The province of Groningen, with the three Ommelander districts of Hunsingo, Fivelingo and Westerkwartier. Groninger Archieven, Groningen 160 7.3 The city of Groningen, depicted on a map by Salomon Savery (1652), with the locations of the Groningen city hall (1), the Provinciehuis of the States of Groningen (2) and the Ommelanderhuis (3). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 161 7.4 The magistrates unleashed the worst round of conflict with their condemnation of Sebo Huninga in 1639. Universiteitsbibliotheek, Groningen 164 Nina Lamal, Jamie Cumby, and Helmer J. Helmers - 978-90-04-44889-6 Downloaded from Brill.com07/06/2021 12:38:50PM via Koninklijke Bibliotheek x Figures and Tables 7.5 The Ommelanders immediately came to Huninga’s rescue, and took up the fight for a free Oldampt in a series of placards like this one, published on 11 December 1639. Groninger Archieven, Groningen 165 7.6 Responding in kind: the Council of Ommelanden condemn a Groninger placard of 8 August 1646. Groninger Archieven, Groningen 167 7.7 The printers of Groningen were happy to accommodate the contesting authorities with numerous reprints of historic ordinances and resolutions. Universiteitsbibliotheek, Groningen 173 9.1 Stanisław Sokołowski, De verae et falsae Ecclesiae discriminae (Kraków: Drukarnia Łazarzowa, 1583) 208 9.2 Marcin Kromer (ed.), Missale Varmiense diligenter recognitum et correctum (Kraków: Drukarnia Łazarzowa, 1587) 216 10.1 Arabic gospels, title page, in Typographia Medicea, 1590, Rome.