LibGuides: SPAN 3349: Hispanic Cultures I (SS. VII-XVII): From the Making to the Burning of Books: Getting Started

About This Guide

In this guide, you'll find resources to help you with your research for the Spanish and Latin American Cultures course SPAN 3349: Hispanic Cultures I (SS. VII-XVII): From the Making to the Burning of Books (through the lens of the History of the Book):

Resources to research background and contextual information on your topic and the approaches you might be bringing to your research (see links below)
Places to find books in print and online
Databases for locating articles, including scholarly and peer-reviewed articles
Approaches to finding primary sources
Resources for citing your sources and writing in Spanish and Latin American Cultures
Guidelines for getting required course texts for free via the Library

Digital Book History

The Atlas of Early Printing
The Atlas of Early Printing is an interactive site designed to be used as a tool for teaching the early history of printing in Europe during the second half of the fifteenth century. While printing in Asia pre-dates European activity by several hundred years, the rapid expansion of the trade following the discovery of printing in Mainz, Germany around the middle of the fifteenth century is a topic of great importance to the global history of communications, technology, and the dissemination of knowledge. The data mapped by the Atlas is drawn from databases and from the collation of information from print and other sources.
Early Printed Books
Early Printed Books focuses on what was unique about books printed during the hand-press period in the West—those features particular to works printed between 1450, when the printing press began to be developed in Germany, and 1800, when the machine press began to take its place across the Western world.