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- Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy
- Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Publishing Texts
- Chapter 2 Making and Selling Books
- Chapter 3 Access to Texts
- Conclusion: Women’s Agency and the Social Circulation of Texts
- Bibliography of Works Published since 1700
- Index
Chapter 2 - Making and Selling Books
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2020
- Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy
- Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Publishing Texts
- Chapter 2 Making and Selling Books
- Chapter 3 Access to Texts
- Conclusion: Women’s Agency and the Social Circulation of Texts
- Bibliography of Works Published since 1700
- Index
Summary
Moving on to the production and the sale of books, the chapter first considers laywomen and nuns as scribes, showing how some convents became centres for the copying of manuscripts for their own use or sometimes for sale. It then studies the ways in which some laywomen were able to contribute to the running of their families’ printing and bookselling businesses, and it describes cases in which some religious orders promoted or even assisted in the printing of books.
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- Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy , pp. 83 - 148Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020