Early Printed Narrative Literature in Western Europe by Besamusca, Bart -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction

1 Initiating a Dialogue 2 The Organization of the Volume: Convergences and Divergences Bibliography Notes

I The History of Early Printing of Narrative Texts

1 Einleitung 2 Antike Stoffe 3 Französisch-burgundische Stoffe 4 Mittelhochdeutsche Versepen 5 Legenden und Jenseitsvisionen 6 Frühhumanistische Übersetzungen 7 Regionale Unterschiede 8 Fazit Bibliografie

Notes Continuities and Discontinuities in the Production and Reception of Middle Dutch Narrative Literature

1 Middle Dutch Narrative Literature in Manuscripts 2 Holland 3 Antwerp 4 Conclusion Bibliography

Notes The Southern Appeal: Dutch Translations of French Romances (c. 1484–c. 1540) in a Western European Perspective

1 The Beginning: Jacob Bellaert 2 Exploring the Market: Gheraert Leeu 3 A New Aesthetics: Roland van den Dorpe and Jan van Doesborch 4 Individual Cases: Hendrik Eckert van Homberch and Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten 5 The Later Years: Willem Vorsterman and Two Decades of Decline 6 Conclusion Bibliography

Notes The Printing of English Narratives in Wynkyn de Worde’s Later Career

1 Reprinting Romances 2 New Romances Printed 1520–1535 3 Prose Narratives, Verse novelle, ‘Merry Jests’ 4 Narratives in Context Bibliography

Notes The Publication of English Medieval Romances after the Death of Wynkyn de Worde, 1536–1569

1 Introduction 2 Medieval Romance during the English Reformation, 1536–1553 3 Printing Romances during the Reign of Mary I, 1553–1558 4 Competition and the Publication of Romance in the Early Elizabethan Period, 1558–1569 5 Conclusion Bibliography

Notes Production éditoriale et diffusion des récits arthuriens en France (XVe–XVIe siècles)

1 La continuité de l’imprimé arthurien 2 Courbe de production, libraires, centres éditoriaux 3 La composition du lectorat 4 Analyse comparative du corpus arthurien (récits chevaleresques français et autres traditions européennes) 5 Conclusions Bibliographie

1 Problématique et mise en contexte 2 Première approche: les livres publiés par Galliot 3 La circulation et la consommation des livres 4 Conclusion Bibliographie

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II Publication Strategies

Notes Dasselbe nochmal: Narratives Potenzial von Bildwiederholungen in frühneuzeitlichen Romanen

1 Bildwiederholungen im Ritter Galmy I 2 Ambiguität, Sinnkonstanz und epistemische Gewissheit 3 Bildwiederholungen im Ritter Galmy II Bibliographie

Notes Old-Fashioned in Order to be Modern: Seghelijn van Iherusalem and its Woodcuts

1 Historiography and Summary of the Text 2 Printed Editions and their Woodcuts 3 The 1517 Edition by De Grave 4 Seghelijn Editions after 1517 5 Use and Re-Use of Woodcuts in Narrative Prose Bibliography

Notes What’s in a Name? On the Titles of Early Modern Narratives, in Particular Those of the Spanish libros de caballerías

1 Introduction 2 The Problem of Titles 3 The Titles of Spanish Chivalric Romances 4 The Conservative Design of the libros de caballerías and its Development 5 Long and Short Titles and Their Relation to Entrelacement as a Narrative Technique 6 The Title of Don Quixote Bibliography

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List of Contributors Index of Manuscripts Index of Titles Index of Names