| Licensing Loyalty: Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France Contributor(s): McLeod, Jane (Author) |
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ISBN: 0271037865 ISBN-13: 9780271037868 Publisher: Penn State University Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Publishers & Publishing Industry - History | Europe - France - History | Modern - 17th Century |
| Dewey: 070.509 |
| Series: Penn State the History of the Book |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9" (1.02 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Licensing Loyalty, historian Jane McLeod explores the evolution of the idea that the royal government of eighteenth-century France had much to fear from the rise of print culture. She argues that early modern French printers helped foster this view as they struggled to negotiate a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the French state. Printers in the provinces and in Paris relentlessly lobbied the government, hoping to convince authorities that printing done by their commercial rivals posed a serious threat to both monarchy and morality. By examining the French state's policy of licensing printers and the mutually influential relationships between officials and printers, McLeod sheds light on our understanding of the limits of French absolutism and the uses of print culture in the political life of provincial France. |
Contributor Bio(s): McLeod, Jane: - Jane McLeod is Associate Professor of History at Brock University in Ontario, Canada. |