Knowledge of Normativity and Printing Technologies. Networks, Authenticity, Typographic Devices

2nd Meeting of Max Planck Partner Group “The Production of Knowledge of Normativity and the Early Modern Book Trade”

On the 19th and 20th of June the University of Barcelona will host the second meeting of the Max Plank Partner Group “The Production of Knowledge of Normativity and the Early Modern Book Trade”, led by Manuela Bragagnolo and based at the University of Trento (https://www.lhlt.mpg.de/3267003/co-the-production-of-knowledge-of-normativity-and-the-early-modern-book-trade). The aim of the group members' joint research is to investigate the extent to which – following the emergence of the early modern book trade – the production, circulation and consumption of legal books had an impact on the production of knowledge of normativity. We examine this topic by combining, in an interdisciplinary way, the questions and methods of legal history, book history and the history of knowledge.

In this workshop, the group members will particularly focus on the three following topics: “Spaces and Networks” looking at the international exchange, the circulation of people and normative books, and the networks that made these circulations possible; on the interplay between “Authenticity, Authorship and Authority” of and over normative books; and on “Printing Technologies and Typographic Devices”.

Organizing Committee

Manuela Bragagnolo (University of Trento/Max Planck Institute of Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt a. M.)

Pedro Rueda Ramírez (University of Barcelona)