The Verdussens and the international trade in Catholic books (Antwerp, seventeenth century) / Stijn Van Rossem -- The globalization of the European book market : Diego Crance's Catalogus librorum (Seville, 1680) and the sale of books in New Spain / Pedro J. Rueda Ramirez -- Communitas Christiana : the sources of Christian tradition in the construction of early Castilian spiritual literature, ca. 1400-1540 / Rafael M. Perez Garcia -- Italian literature in the Hispanic world during the early modern period (Seville and Mexico City) / Natalia Maillard Alvarez -- Aristocratic book consumption in the seventeenth century : Austrian aristocratic book collectors and the role of noble networks in the circulation of books from Spain to Austria / Bianca Lindorfer -- Before we are condemned : inquisitorial fears and private libraries of New Spain / Idalia Garcia Aguilar -- Artem quaevis terra alit : books in the Cape Colony during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Adrien Delmas
Summary
The current volume aims to shed new light on the relationships between Catholicism and books during the early modern period, gathering studies with special focus on trade, common readings and the mechanisms used to control readership in different territories
