Licensing Loyalty - Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France

In Licensing Loyalty, historian Jane McLeod explores the evolution of the idea that the royal government of eighteenth-century France had much to fear from the rise of print culture. She argues that early modern French printers helped foster this view as they struggled to negotiate a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the French state. Printers in the provinces and in Paris relentlessly lobbied the government, hoping to convince authorities that printing done by their commercial rivals posed a serious threat to both monarchy and morality. By examining the French state's policy of licensing printers and the mutually influential relationships between officials and printers, McLeod sheds light on our understanding of the limits of French absolutism and the uses of print culture in the political life of provincial France.

About the author

Jane McLeod is Associate Professor of History at Brock University in Ontario, Canada.

Summary

Explores the evolution of the idea that the rise of print culture was a threat to the royal government of eighteenth-century France. Argues that French printers did much to foster this view as they negotiated a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the state.

Product details

• Authors: Jane (Associate Professor McLeod, McLeod Jane
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2011
• EAN: 9780271037868
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03786-8
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Penn State Series in the History of the Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; France, European History, HISTORY / Europe / France, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, Publishing industry & book trade, French Revolution