This article intends to show how manuscript and printed texts continued to co-exist during the first centuries following the invention of the printing press. The two media depended on and nourished each other in various ...

The article is based on some of the findings from the author’s doctoral thesis, Komediant och riksförrädare. Handskriftcirkulerade smädeskrifter mot Gustaf III (approx. Jester and traitor. Manuscript published libels ...

Epistolary writing consists of contemporary testimonies of political and cultural events and linguistic usages and it is vital to have access to good editions. There are two main groups of epistolary writing: informal ...

This essay argues that the Elizabethan author Thomas Nashe’s (1567–1601) erotic poem »The Choise of Valentines« explores early modern senses of distinction between manuscript writing and print. In his dedication and in ...

This article provides some observations on the production and function of academic lecture notes in the early modern period at the universities of Uppsala and Lund int the 17th century. Books being relatively scarce, ...

How far is it possible to understand the penetration of books in any society, by using statistical methods? How far are the existing short-title catalogues helpful in this respect? More specifically, if we measure the ...

My paper concerns the handwritten newspaper in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The genre appeared in late sixteenth century as part of a growing public news market, which from the early seventeenth century ...