Czech book-print between gothic and renaissance. Vol. II The printers for the confessions and the printers for the national awakening 1498-1547)

Abstract

This volume is published as a follow up to the previous one (2013). The main task is the development of the Czech literature, book-print, book culture and reading in the first half of 16th century.

Author presents the isolated and comapring to the foreign countries distinctive development of aforementioned cultural phenomena influenced by the first, Hussite reformation.

Keywords

• books and reading
• bourgeoisie
• Czechia
• history of letterpress printing
• humanism (literature)
• illustration of books
• publishing and bookselling
• printers
• reading
• Utraquism
• 15th – 16th centuries