Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction / Besamusca, Bart / Bruijn, Elisabeth de / Willaert, Frank -- I. The History of Early Printing of Narrative Texts -- Durchbruch zur Prosa und der Einfluss des Buchdrucks auf die deutschsprachige Erzèahlliteratur des 15. Jahrhunderts / Bertelsmeier-Kierst, Christa -- Continuities and Discontinuities in the Production and Reception of Middle Dutch Narrative Literature / Besamusca, Bart / Willaert, Frank -- The Southern Appeal: Dutch Translations of French Romances (c. 1484-c. 1540) in a Western European Perspective / Bruijn, Elisabeth de -- The Printing of English Narratives in Wynkyn de Worde's Later Career / Boffey, Julia -- The Publication of English Medieval Romances after the Death of Wynkyn de Worde, 1536-1569 / Sâanchez-Martâi, Jordi -- Production âeditoriale et diffusion des râecits arthuriens en France (XVe-XVIe siáecles) / Montorsi, Francesco -- L'âedition imprimâee des textes mâediâevaux en langue franðcaise au dâebut du seiziáeme siáecle. Le cas de Galliot du Prâe (1512-1560) / Delsaux, Olivier / Van Hemelryck, Tania -- II. Publication Strategies -- Visual Narrative: The Aeneid Woodcuts from Sebastian Brant's Edition of Virgil (Strasbourg 1502) in Thomas Murner's Translation of the Aeneid (Strasbourg 1515) / Frick, Julia -- Dasselbe nochmal: Narratives Potenzial von Bildwiederholungen in frèuhneuzeitlichen Romanen / Potysch, Nicolas -- Old-Fashioned in Order to be Modern: Seghelijn van Iherusalem and its Woodcuts / Schaeps, Jef -- Ritter, Romance, Rewriting. èUberlegungen zur dèanischen Erzèahlliteratur in der Frèuhdruckzeit am Beispiel der Historie von Persenober oc Constantianobis (1572) / Richter, Anna Katharina -- What's in a Name? On the Titles of Early Modern Narratives, in Particular Those of the Spanish libros de caballerâias / Syrovy, Daniel -- List of Contributors -- Index of Manuscripts -- Index of Titles -- Index of Names

The essays in this volume are concerned with early printed narrative texts in Western Europe. The aim of this book is to consider to what extent the shift from hand-written to printed books left its mark on narrative literature in a number of vernacular languages. Did the advent of printing bring about changes in the corpus of narrative texts when compared with the corpus extant in manuscript copies? Did narrative texts that already existed in manuscript form undergo significant modifications when they began to be printed? How did this crucial media development affect the nature of these narratives? Which strategies did early printers develop to make their texts commercially attractive? Which social classes were the target audiences for their editions? Around half of the articles focus on developments in the history of early printed narrative texts, others discuss publication strategies. This book provides an impetus for cross-linguistic research. It invites scholars from various disciplines to get involved in an international conversation about fifteenth- and sixteenth-century narrative literature.

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