@article{GuillaumeRovilleEtBenoîtRigaud(1545-1597).PolitiquesEditoriales:1893,
      recid = {1893},
      author = {Gao, Ji},
      title = {Guillaume Roville Et Benoît Rigaud (1545-1597). Politiques  Editoriales, Contraintes Economiques Et Ambitions  Culturelles En France Dans La Seconde Moitié Du Seizième  Siècle.},
      publisher = {The University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2019-07},
      pages = {350},
      abstract = {This dissertation examines, from both a chronological and  a thematic perspective, the editorial policies of Guillaume  Roville and Benoît Rigaud, two highly prolific publishers  based in Lyon whose activities started in the 1540s and  1550s and spanned almost the entire second half of the 16th  century. Lyon was then an important printing and publishing  center situated at the crossroads of Europe, one that  enjoyed much commercial and cultural prosperity before  being affected by the Wars of Religion. Its printing and  publishing industry provides a unique angle from which to  measure the shifts in the cultural landscape during that  time. The comparable yet highly distinctive features of the  careers of Roville and Rigaud allow them to effectively  represent Lyonnese publishers and the publishing industry  during this period.

I focus on the period 1545-1597, which  covers both Roville and Rigaud’s careers and saw both the  height of Lyon’s golden age and, following the outbreak of  the Wars of Religion in 1562, the polarized atmosphere and  the economic decline. Through a case study of these  exemplary figures, I show how publishers in Lyon adapted  their editorial policies over several decades to suit the  demands of their readership in an evolving context. In my  first chapter, I offer a chronological description of their  catalogues. The three subsequent chapters – on religious  texts, literary publications, and illustrated books,  respectively – constitute three distinct and important  angles from which to examine their editorial policies.  

From a large number of sources including catalogues,  original editions and archives and by taking a longue durée  approach, I aim to construct a cultural history of the  Lyonnese printing and publishing industry at the time of  the Wars of Religion and also to provide new perspectives  on the history of the book and on our understanding of  printing and publication during this dynamic and unsettled  period.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/1893},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.1893},
}