International Exchange in the Early Modern Book World

International Exchange in the Early Modern Book World presents new research on the movement and exchange of books between countries, languages and confessions. It explores commercial networks and business strategies, and the translation and circulation of literature, music and drama.

Matthew McLean teaches early modern history at the University of St Andrews. His research is centred upon the Reformation and on learned culture and humanist networks in the sixteenth century. He has published books on theCosmographia of Sebastian Munster (Ashgate, 2007), on Shaping the Bible in the Reformation (Brill, 2012), and articles on the scholarly communities, networks and rivalries of Reformation Basel and Zurich. Sara Barker is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Leeds, where she is also on the management committee of the Centre for the Comparative History of Print. Her first monographProtestantism, Poetry and Protest: The Vernacular Writings of Antoine de Chandieu (c.1534-1591) (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009) explored the different media forms used by a leading figure of the French Reformation. She has published on early modern translation and news, including a volume co-edited with Brenda M. Hosington, Renaissance Cultural Crossroads: Translation, Print and Culture in Britain, 1473-1640 (Leiden: Brill, 2013). Her current research focuses on the circulation of news in western Europe in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.