Materialität und Präsenz Von Inkunabeln

English summary: This dissertation focuses on the importance and the contribution made by German book printers to the French book trade, a phenomenon that has hitherto been barely addressed in research on the history of books. The work blends biographical material about the printers themselves with economic factors as well as the overall cultural framework. It thus provides meaningful insights into the transformation of media during the incunable era, seeing this as a complex process...
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English summary: This dissertation focuses on the importance and the contribution made by German book printers to the French book trade, a phenomenon that has hitherto been barely addressed in research on the history of books. The work blends biographical material about the printers themselves with economic factors as well as the overall cultural framework. It thus provides meaningful insights into the transformation of media during the incunable era, seeing this as a complex process of innovation, at the end of which manuscripts had been replaced by the printed word. German description: Die Dissertation greift ein in der buchhistorischen Forschung wenig untersuchtes Phanomen auf: die Leistung und Bedeutung der deutschen Buchdrucker auf dem franzosischen Buchmarkt. Die Arbeit verknupft biographische Aspekte der Drucker mit okonomischen Fragestellungen und kulturellen Rahmenbedingungen. Sie gelangt so zu aussagekraftigen Erkenntnissen uber den Medienwandel in der Inkunabelzeit als einem komplexen Innovationsprozess, an dessen Ende die Ablosung der Handschrift durch den Buchdruck steht.