EMoBookTrade: An Evidence-based Reconstruction of the Economic and Juridical Framework of the European Book Market is a research project that addresses fundamental questions relating to the growth of a fully developed book trade and the rise of a society of book consumers within the social and religious context of early modern Europe. It is focused on book prices and on Venetian book privileges. Led by Angela Nuovo, and funded by the European Research Council from 2016 to 2022, it involves a team of twelve researchers, based initially at the University of Udine and since 2019 at the University of Milan. EMoBookTrade aims to produce data and research based on a large-scale, quantitative analysis of book prices in Europe (ca. 1540-1630) and on the development of book privileges in Venice as the first European city to make a systematic use of this juridical institution. The Early Modern Book Prices database and The Early Modern Book Privileges in Venice database are its major results.
About the Data
33,000
Book prices
10
Cities where prices were set
22,000
Editions
73
Sources of book prices
10
Currencies
5,300
Book privileges
33,000
Book prices
10
Currencies
73
Sources of book prices
22,000
Editions
10
Cities where prices were set
5,300
Book privileges
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Antwerp Seminar of the EMoBookTrade Project, Auditorium of the Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp, 26 August 2021
On 13 Nov 2020 at 2pm (CET) Angela Nuovo & Andrea Ottone will discuss Sacrobosco’s Sphere with Stefano Gulizia, Elio Nenci and Matteo Valleriani at the Milano Book City. Be sure to sign up here
International Conference Reshaping the Early Modern Book World: Competition, Protection, Consumption, University of Milan, postponed, date to be confirmed.
Angela Nuovo, Andrea Ottone, Erika Squassina, I privilegi librari nella prima età moderna fra tutela dell’editoria e disciplina dei contenuti, Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, 10 December 2019