On Borrowed Time: Internationalism and its Discontents in a Late Sixteenth-Century University Library
On Borrowed Time: Internationalism and its Discontents in a Late Sixteenth-Century University Library
Author(s): Daniel AnderssonSubject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Zeta Books
Keywords: Humanism; Valla; Transylvania; Báthory University; Renaissance Libraries; Book Trade
Summary/Abstract: Abstract: An analysis of the accession history, together with a few refinements thereto, of the Báthory Jesuit College in Transylvania tells us much about the international and local buying practices of a humanistic reading community in a period of confessional strife. This short article makes a few corrections to our current knowledge of this library, together with a few obiter comments on Transylvanian book pricing and on the second-hand usage of student works. The Republic of Letters depended, naturally enough, on the inculcation of a worldview that was not wholly parochial. Accordingly, the article also considers the nature of the intellectual culture that the partial reconstruction suggests and, finally, the division of labour between international and local markets for the sourcing of books.
Journal: Journal of Early Modern Studies
- Issue Year: 2012
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 9-20
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English
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