By Warren Boutcher
This significant two-volume learn bargains an interdisciplinary research of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early sleek Europe and the trendy western collage. quantity one specializes in contexts from inside of Montaigne's personal milieu, and at the ways that his e-book made him a patron-author or speedy vintage within the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. quantity makes a speciality of the Read more...
summary: This significant two-volume learn deals an interdisciplinary research of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early sleek Europe and the fashionable western collage. quantity one specializes in contexts from inside of Montaigne's personal milieu, and at the ways that his e-book made him a patron-author or speedy vintage within the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. quantity specializes in the reader-writers throughout Europe who used the Essais to make their very own works, from corrected variations and translations in print, to life-writing and private files in manuscript
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327, ‘The Author to the Reader’ (annotated). 2 Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniarum hypotyposeon libri III (Geneva: Henri Estienne, 1562), Bodleian Library, pressmark S 52 Art. Seld, sig. A5r (Mountjoy brothers’ annotated copy). Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniarum hypotyposeon libri III (Geneva: Henri Estienne, 1562), Bodleian Library, pressmark S 52 Art. Seld, sig. N4v (Mountjoy brothers’ annotated copy). 1 Philippe Desan, Bibliotheca Desaniana, Catalogue Montaigne (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2011), Les Essais de Montaigne (Bordeaux: 1580), title page (second state).
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Oxford; Cambridge, USA: Blackwell, 1993), 109–12. 11 Brian Cummings, The literary culture of the Reformation: grammar and grace (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002); Jean-Marc Chatelain, La bibliothèque de l’honnête homme: livres, lecture et OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 11/02/17, SPi General Introduction xlix Indeed, throughout the second millenium ce, ‘rigid, professional, ordered practices of reading’, with ‘specific rituals for the readers’ behaviour and for the use of books that require environments with special furnishings and particular equipment and instruments’, were ‘opposed by free, relaxed, unregulated practices’, ‘freer reading habits’ associated with court society, and less constrained modes of reading used by bourgeois people who read in the vernacular.
