Max Planck Partner Group: The Production of Knowledge of Normativity and the Early Modern Book Trade

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

19.06.2025 (Sala de Juntas - Facultat d’Informació i Mitjans Audiovisuals, Universitat de Barcelona)

15:00 – 15:30 Manuela Bragagnolo, Pedro Rueda Ramírez: Introduction

15:30 – 16:30 Pedro Rueda Ramírez (Universitat de Barcelona), Manuals, Forms, and Other Practical Works for Notaries and Scribes in Circulation in the Spanish Indies (16th-17th Centuries) Commentator: Alberto Campillo Pardo (Oslo, BE4COPY)

16:30- 17:30 Manuela Bragagnolo (University of Trento/Frankfurt, MPILHLT), Networks of Authorial Control. The Author, his Trade Agents, and the Production of Normative Knowledge in the Early Modern Times Commentator: Marius Buning (Oslo, BE4COPY)

17:30-18:00 Coffee Break

18:00-19:00 Natalia Maillard Álvarez (Universidad Pablo de Olavide), The Portonariis and the Production and Distribution of Law Books in the 16th Century Commentators: Christiane Birr (Frankfurt, MPILHLT), Polina Solonets (Frankfurt, MPILHLT)

19:00-19:30 Théo Fraslin (Oslo, BE4COPY), Privileges and cartography in Enlightenment France Introduction: Manuela Bragagnolo (University of Trento/Frankfurt, MPILHLT)

20.06.2025 - (Sala de Juntas - Facultat d’Informació i Mitjans Audiovisuals, Universitat de Barcelona)

10:00 - 11:00 Yoshimi Orii (Keyo University), Mission, Printing, and Universalization: Organizing

various Debates on the Historical Significance of Japanese Jesuit Letterpress Printing Commentator: Gastón García (Universidad Nacional de La Plata)

11:00-12:00 Andrea Ottone (Oslo, BE4COPY), Asserting Authorship Through Censorship: the Case of Martino Alfonso Vivaldo’s Candelabrum Aureum Commentator: Manuela Bragagnolo (University of Trento, Frankfurt, MPILHLT)

12:00-12:30 Coffee Break

12:30- 13:30 Renaud Milazzo (Rome, Venerable English College), Standardisation of Knowledge and Material Evidence in Books Published in Antwerp, Lyon and Venice in the 16th Century Commentators: Piotr Alexandrowicz (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań); Rafael Mandressi (Centre Alexandre Koyré-EHESS, Paris)

13:30-14:00 Concluding Remarks

14:00 - 14:30 Discussion about the collective volume and next steps

14:30 Lunch

17:00 Visit Barcelona Bar Association Library (ICAB)