Catalán and the Book Industry in the Crown of Aragón, 1475–1601

In common with a small number of other areas in Europe, Catalonia and Valencia stand as intriguing examples of regions where the language of the everyday and the language of published vernacular discourse were quite different. Using Iberian Books as a starting point, this article attempts to trace publishing trends in these regions during the first great age of print. For Catalonia and Valencia to share in the cultural and commercial opportunities presented by the broader world of the Iberian book, they had to do so at the expense of their own language - Catalán. Nonetheless, the decline of Catalán-language literature in this period has perhaps been overstated. Per head of population, Catalonia and Valencia produced twice as much printed material in their native vernacular than Portugal. The nature of what was produced in Catalán was, however, to change in some dramatic ways over the course of the sixteenth century

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