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Women Prin­ters, Their Know­ledge and the Intri­ca­cies of the Book Busi­ness in Early Modern Europe

von Dr. Saskia Limbach (Uni­ver­sität Göttin­gen)

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22. September 2026, 18:00 – 19:30 ical

From 1550 onwards a conspicuously high number of women ran a print shop in the Holy Roman Empire. This paper will provide a first impression of the women’s knowledge, their literacy skills and their activities in the book business, introducing the various archival sources we can use to reconstruct the women’s biographies.

From 1550 onwards a conspicuously high number of women ran a print shop in the Holy Roman Empire. This paper will provide a first impression of the women’s knowledge, their literacy skills and their activities in the book business, introducing the various archival sources we can use to reconstruct the women’s biographies. In a second step this paper will address the intricacies of the early book business. While it was technically possible to produce an ever-greater number of printed copies, the actual numbers could fluctuate significantly. With new evidence on a print shop run by Anna and Nikolaus Bassee in sixteenth-century Frankfurt, this paper will show how difficult it could be to produce and sell printed books in the early modern period.

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