"This work of history examines how the Renaissance popes adopted print as a medium for political discourse in the first decades after the technology's invention (ca. 1470-1520). Drawing on literary and material analyses of dozens of little-known incunabula and early sixteenth-century editions, this study argues that the Renaissance papacy was an early adopter of print and keenly attuned to its political potential"--.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Urbi et orbi
• 2 Humanists, Printers, and Others
• 3 Sixtus IV and His Pamphlet Wars
• 4 Broadsides in Basel
• 5 The Holy Face, Imprinted and in Print
• 6 Refugee Relics
• 7 Kissing the Papal Foot
• 8 Brand Julius
• Conclusion
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Index
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