Trumpets from the Tower: English Puritan Printing in the Netherlands 1600-1640

Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-90-04-09935-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 46, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectua

This volume deals with English Puritan book printing and publishing in the Netherlands, especially in the cities of Amsterdam and Leiden, in the early seventeenth century. Because of censorship in England, many Puritans had to go abroad to have their books printed. Once produced by Dutch presses, the books were shipped, or smuggled, back to England.
The book centers on a body of about 350 Puritanical books, mostly in the English language, printed in the Dutch Republic by Puritan printers in exile or by sympathetic Dutch printers. The book examines the chain of authors, printers, publishers, financial backers, smugglers, and booksellers involved. Zealous Puritan believers participated at each stage.
This book is important for studying the relationship between Dutch printing and Puritan activities in Britain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sprunger, Keith L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Druckindustrie, Verpackungsindustrie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen

Über Autor(innen)

Keith L. Sprunger, Ph.D. (1963) in History, University of Illinois, is Oswald H. Wedel Professor of History at Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas. He has published extensively in the history of Puritanism, including The Learned Doctor William Ames (Illinois, 1972) and Dutch Puritanism (Brill, 1982).