Preface Daniel Bellingradt and Anna Reynolds List of Illustrations Notes on Contributorsġ The Paper Trade in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction Daniel Bellingradt part 1: Hotspots and Trade RoutesĢ Selling Paper in Early Modern Venice: Paper-retailers and the “Libri da carta bianca” Anna Gialdiniģ ‘Unter dem Zeichen des Adlers’: Frankfurt as Hub of the Central European Paper Trade in the 16th Century Megan K. Altogether, the collection uncovers the actors involved in the networks of paper production, transportation, purchase, and reuse, between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries and across the central and peripheral papermaking regions of Europe.Ĭontributors: Renaud Adam, Daniel Bellingradt, Frank Birkenholz, Simon Burrows, Orietta Da Rold, Michael Falk, Anna Gialdini, Rachel Hendery, Silvia Hufnagel, Jean-Benoît Krumenacker, Katherine McDonough, Krisztina Rábai, Anna Reynolds, Benito Rial Costas, Tapio Salminen, Helen Smith, Jan Willem Veluwenkamp, Andreas Weber, and Megan Williams. Organised into three sections – ‘Hotspots and Trade Routes’, ‘Usual Dealings’, and ‘Recycling Economies’ – the chapters in this collection shed light on the practices, materials, and networks of the paper trade. Despite the well-known fact that paper was crucial to the success of printing and record-keeping alike, paper remains one of the least studied areas of early modern history. This book attends to the most essential, lucrative, and overlooked business activity of early modern Europe: the trade of paper.
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