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This collection of essays engages with a variety of aspects of early modern book culture in the 16th-17th centuries, considered in the Catholic context. The contributions reflect on the engagement of institutions and authorities in the process of book production, bringing to the fore the role of networks in this process; show the book as a tool of resistance to the Protestant Reformation; give insight into the content and design of book collections; showcase textual production in the context of cultural appropriation and shed light on the role of the image in the propagation of Catholicism. Together the sixteen contributions demonstrate the diversity of the Catholic book in its forms and functions, in various social and national contexts.
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New approaches to understanding religious women's involvement in monastic reform, demonstrating how women's experiences were more ambiguous and multi-layered than previously assumed. Over the last two decades, scholarship has presented a more nuanced view of women's attitude to and agency in medieval monastic reform, challenging the idea that they were, by and large, unwilling to accept or were necessarily hostile towards reform initiatives. Rather, it has shown that they actively participated in debates about the ideas and structures that shaped their religious lives, whether rejecting, embracing, or adapting to calls for "reform" contingent on their circumstances. Nevertheless, fundamental...
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Vols. 4-24 include Communications of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA-FIAB).
Il testo presenta il lavoro di tesi: “Valorizzazione di una collezione speciale: il Fondo Sclavi presso la biblioteca comunale di Venegono Superiore”. Ripercorre la genesi del Fondo Sclavi, dalla donazione nel 2002 all’apertura al pubblico, fino alla realizzazione di un catalogo sulla sezione del cinema. Delinea inoltre possibili scenari di sviluppo e valorizzazione.
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Straparola and Late Renaissance Publishing -- Chapter 2 The Trials of Literature in an Age of Censorship -- Chapter 3 A Woman ' s Hand -- Chapter 4 Angelica and her Book -- Chapter 5 Reading and Gender -- Chapter 6 Book Conservation and the Digital Turn -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography