Book Markets in Mediterranean Europe and Latin America: Institutions and Strategies (15th-18th Centuries)

Contents
Notes on Contributors
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Chapter 1: Introduction: The Circulation of Books During the Early Modern Period: Contexts and Perspectives
Part I: Privileged Markets
	Chapter 2: Book Privileges in the Early Modern Age: From Trade Protection and Promotion to Content Regulation
		Book Privileges in Venice
		Book Privileges in Rome
	Chapter 3: A Pious Privilege: Printing for Hospitals and Orphanages Across the Spanish Empire
		Royal Privileges and Poor Relief
		A Privilege for Primers: Mexico, Lima, Buenos Aires
		A Privilege for the Grammar: Madrid, Pamplona, Zaragoza
		Financial Management in Hospitals and Orphanages
		Protest and Contraventions by Printers
		Conclusions
	Chapter 4: Antonio Sanz and the Distribution of the Festivals and Vigils Calendar
		Antonio Sanz and the Privilege of Calendars
		The Production and Distribution of the Calendars of Antonio Sanz
		The Decentralisation of the Privilege
		The Limits of Antonio Sanz’s Privilege
		The Distribution of Calendars After 1780
		The Balance of the System
PART II: Economic Behaviour at the Market
	Chapter 5: Serving the Church, Feeding the Academia: The Giunta and Their Market-Oriented Approach to European Institutions
		Territorial Strategy
		Planning Accordingly
		Engaging in Competition
		Engaging with Politics
		Losing Both Wars
	Chapter 6: Global Networks in the Atlantic Book Market (Booksellers and Inquisitors in the Spanish Empire)
		The Regulation of the American Book Market
		The Spanish Inquisition and the Regulation of the Book Market in New Spain
		The Procedure
		Solving the Conflict
		The Networks
		The Real Network
		Conclusions
	Chapter 7: A Pluricontinental Book Market: The Role of Booksellers in the Circulation of Knowledge Within the Portuguese Empire (c. 1790–1820)
		A Pluricontinental Book Market Stocked by Lisbon
		The Controlled Circulation of Books
		Booksellers and Book Merchants: The Agents of Circulation
		Books to the Overseas
		Conclusions
PART III: Institutions, Markets, and Incentives
	Chapter 8: Publication and Distribution of the Pre-Tridentine Liturgical Book in Spain Through Notarial Documentation
		Church and Typographic Production
		Liturgical Book Printing Contracts
		Economic Agreements
		Technical Agreements
		The Publication of the Liturgical Book on the Margins of the Church
		Distribution of the Liturgical Books
		Some Observations as Conclusion
	Chapter 9: From Rome to Constantinople. The Greek Printers and the Struggles for Influence Between the Roman Catholic Church and the Ecumenical Patriarchate over the Christian Populations in the Eastern Mediterranean (Seventeenth Century)
		Greek Printing Houses and Their Supervision
		Propaganda
		Circulation
	Chapter 10: The Territorial Component of Inquisitorial Book Control in the Eighteenth-Century Indias’ Trade to New Granada
		The Book Control in the Indias’ Trade to New Granada: The Different Kinds of Inquisitorial Licences
		Licences Issued by an Inquisitorial Port Commissar
		Licences Issued by a Port Commissar and an Inquisitorial Revisor
		The Licences Issued by a Tribunal: The Case of Seville
		Licences of the Council of the Supreme Inquisition and the Passports for Books
		The Licences for the Religious Orders
		Conclusions
		Primary sources
Name Index
Subject Index