Printing and the Book During the Reformation: 1450-1650

FAIN: FS-272433-20

Ohio State University (Columbus, OH 43210-1349)
Christopher Highley (Project Director: February 2020 to August 2020)
Mark Rankin (Project Director: August 2020 to May 2024)
Christopher Highley (Co Project Director: August 2020 to October 2020)

A four-week seminar for 16 higher education faculty on the history of the production and reception of books during the Reformation.

This NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, on “Printing and the Book During the Reformation: 1450-1650," is situated within the History of the Book and the history of reading. By drawing upon contemporary thought concerning cultural history and the reception of books by readers, this field of study now attracts teacher-scholars in many humanities disciplines. This seminar will focus on the production, dissemination, and reading of British and Western European books during the two centuries that followed the invention of printing with movable type on hand-operated presses circa 1450. We shall devote particular attention to the impact of the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Reformation (or Counter-Reformation) on the material nature of books and the book trade, as well as upon their reading and use, during a turbulent era of religious, intellectual, literary, and cultural change.

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