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The Burgeoning European Print Trade
The Distribution of Prints via the Plantin-Moretus Press
of Antwerp
By Karen L. Bowen & Dirk Imhof
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“(...) Bowen and Imhof, singly and collaboratively, have thoroughly mined the rich legacy of the Plantin-Moretus publishing house across their career-long immersion in Antwerp. This magnificent volume, the result of their long labors, will be treasured by all future scholars of early modern printmaking.”
Larry Silver, in Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews,
March 2026 [online]
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“It’s a must read (or source) for anyone interested in this subject. Readers of the Print Quarterly and others who love reading about early collections and seller catalogues, will delight in this volume.”
Honorable Mention / Jury 2026 IFPDA-Book Prize
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ISBN 978-1-915487-07-0 (HB)
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Byzantine Liturgical Books
An Introduction
Edited by Stefanos Alexopoulos, Stig Simeon R. Frøyshov, Stefan Royé & Andrew Wade
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ISBN 978-2-503-60757-3 (HB)
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“While a single-author monograph might present a more unified – if not necessarily more accurate – narrative of the history of the Byzantine rite as reflected in its manuscript legacy, this collection is to be commended for foregrounding, perhaps unintentionally, the field’s ongoing de-bates and unresolved questions. The coexistence of differing perspectives (...) serves as a reminder that the history of the Byzantine liturgy and its books remains an open and contested area of inquiry. In this respect, the volume succeeds not only as a reference work, but also as a faithful representation of the current state of the discipline.”
Samuel Bauer, in Ex Fonte - Journal of Ecumenical Studies in Liturgy, 5, 2026
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Les cartulaires/Kartulare
Entre mises en ordre des archives et mises en ordre du monde (IXe-XIIIe siècle)
Ordnen der Archive und Ordnung der Welt
(9.-13. Jahrhundert)
Édité par Claire de Cazanove Hannecart
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“(...) this book is a worthy addition to the extensive existing research on cartularies. The different methodological approaches presented, which are sometimes the result of a less evident and objective mise en ordre than expected, demonstrate the necessity of moving away from an overly rationalist or exclusivist approach when investigating the functionality of cartularies and their relationship with institutional archives and the environments from which they emerged.”
Leticia Agúndez San Miguel, in Early Medieval Europe, 34/1, 2026
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ISBN 978-2-503-58867-4 (HB)
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Une collection épistolaire plurielle
Diffusion, réception et influence des Variæ de Cassiodore
(VIe-XVe siècles)
Par Nicolas Michel
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ISBN 978-2-503-61737-4 (PB)
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“Michel’s contribution to the scholarship of manuscript transmission and the development of medieval intellectual culture is truly inestimable.”
Shane Bjornlie, in The Medieval Review, July 2026 [online]
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The Multiplicity of Scripture
The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible
By Theodor Dunkelgrün
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“Theodor Dunkelgrün’s is the first full-length study of the scholarship and typographical work behind the Hebrew and the Aramaic texts of the Biblia Regia. It is a rare combination of readability and formidable learning, the outcome of exhaustive archival research based on all the surviving documentation of Plantin’s great project.”
Alastair Hamilton, in The Times Literary Supplement,
18 July 2025
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ISBN 978-0-88844-234-5 (HB)
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Graphic Practices and Literacies
in the History of English
Edited by Matti Peikola, Jukka Tyrkkö & Mari-Liisa Varila
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ISBN 978-2-503-60045-1 (HB)
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“This stimulating collection will be welcomed by students of historical pragmatics—who particularly may be interested in the methodologies, including generally nuanced use of digitised corpora—, as well by those interested in book history, palaeography, choreography, history of medicine, and more.”
Bruce McClintock, in Parergon, 43/1, 2026, p. 182
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Diplomatics in the Netherlands
The Use, Editing, and Study of Charters by Dutch Historians from the Middle Ages to the Present
By J.W.J. Burgers
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“An accomplished scholar of diplomatics and related auxiliary sciences (codicology and palaeography), Jan Burgers (...) has resisted the temptation to proclaim a glorious story of Diplomatics in the Netherlands. Instead, he gives us an invaluable account of the local history of a discipline that consistently remained in the hands of local individuals engaged in conversation with their past and current environment.”
Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak, in Sehepunkte, 26/1, 2026 [online]
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ISBN 978-2-503-61753-4 (HB)
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Du chartrier au codex
La première cartularisation (IXe- début Xe siècle)
Par Claire de Cazanove Hannecart
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ISBN 978-2-503-61026-9 (PB)
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“By eliminating macro-historical determinisms and showing that the decisive factors lie in the materiality of the books themselves--their structure, sequencing, and modes of compilation--Cazanove Hannecart reframes the early Bavarian-Raetian cartularies from the ninth and early tenth centuries not as embryonic forms but as deliberate, innovative products that shaped later documentary organization, integrating them into the broader European history of pragmatic writing and institutional memory.”
Rodrigo Furtado, in The Medieval Review, January 2026
“Für alle, die Kartulare nicht nur als Quellenbestände, sondern als Wissens- und Gedächtnispraktiken verstehen möchten, bietet das Buch reichhaltiges Material.”
Christoph Walther, in H-Soz-Kult, June 2026 [online]
“Mit ihrer gründlichen, sorgfältig redigierten und mit einem umfangreichen Tabellen- und Materialanhang ausgestatteten Studie hat CCH einen bislang zu Unrecht vernachlässigten Überlieferungsbestand für die internationale Forschung erschlossen.”
Uta Kleine, in Francia-Recensio, 2026/2 [online]
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The Materiality of Sound in Chant Manuscripts in the East
Scriptor, Cantor & Notator (Volume II)
Edited by Elsa De Luca, Ivan Moody & Jean-François Goudesenne
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“The Materiality of Sound in Chant Manuscripts in the East is a companion to a previously published collection entitled The Materiality of Sound in Chant Manuscripts in the West (Turnhout, 2023). (...) Volume II stands on its own as a fine monument both to the unusually broad vision of its editors and the generally high standard of scholarship displayed by its authors.”
Alexander Lingas, in Music & Letters, February 2026 [online]
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ISBN 978-2-503-61009-2 (PB)
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Gerson rhénan
Itinéraires culturels et circulation des textes dans
l’Europe rhénane, XVe-XVIe siècles
Édité par Isabel Iribarren
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ISBN 978-2-503-61075-7 (HB)
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“Der klug aufgebaute, inhaltsreiche Band zeigt Materialität und Spiritualität des Rezeptionsbegriffs als Akte der Aneignung. Die Fallstudien beleuchten exemplarisch einzelne Werke und Personen, deren oft gehörte Namen Gestalt gewinnen.”
Helga Köhler, in Francia-Recensio, 2026/1 [online]
“En conclusion, cet ouvrage apporte de nombreux éléments extrêmement précieux sur la diffusion des textes et des idées de Gerson dans l’espace rhénan de la pré-Réforme et sur son influence dans le monde religieux et intellectuel de cette région. C’est également un travail remarquable d’histoire des textes à la jonction entre manuscrits et premiers imprimés qui montre comment les textes circulent dans un espace donné et se transforment avec l’arrivée d’un nouveau média.”
Jean-Benoît Krumenacker, dans Réforme, Humanisme, Renaissance, 102/1, 2026
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The History of the Physiologus
in Early Medieval England
By Mercedes Salvador-Bello
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“Salvador-Bello has impressively joined careful textual study with religious and literary history, and the book provides a solid basis for further research on the uniquely English transformation of an internationally famous text.”
Robert Stanton, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 125/2, 2026
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“It is exciting to see such extensive and rigorous analysis of the complex Physiologus tradition as it pertains to the early medieval world, the identification of a revised Latin recension and discussion of previously neglected manuscripts.”
Megan Cavell, in SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature, 31, 2026, p. 210
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ISBN 978-2-503-59840-6 (HB)
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