Fifth Annual St Andrews Book Conference
The history of the book has been built on the solid foundations of national, local and individual studies of printers, publishers and publishing networks. While this makes good sense from a practical and logistical point of view, it risks obscuring the essential fact that the production and sale of books was, from the early days of print, a trans-national and international trade.
Books and texts moved effortlessly across national boundaries. The building of a library, and the economics of the industry, depended on the efficient functioning of an international market, and publishers planned their output with this in mind.
This conference will consider contributions on a variety of aspects on this international and multi-lingual book world.
Contributers include: Giovanna Granata (Cagliari University), Angela Nuovo (Udine University), Valentina Sebastiani (Isig FBK), Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico, Alina Laura de Luca (Sapienza, Università di Roma), Marco Cavietti (Sapienza, Università di Roma), Stefania Gargioni (FU Berlin).
For further information please refer to: http://www.ustc.ac.uk/?p=1026
Booking essential – Last Booking Date for this Event is 22 June 2013