Blurring the Lines: A Printer’s Mark between Word and Image in Seventeenth-Century Rus’

• In Event: On the Cusp: Permeable Boundaries between Word and Image in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania and Muscovy

Abstract

In my paper, I analyze the ways in which an Orthodox polymath printer Pamvo Berynda (d. 1632) employed his printer’s mark in Kyiv in 1620-s. By analyzing the various versions of his device and the interplay between the visual and textual components in his published works, I demonstrate how Berynda was able to justify and maintain a balance between corporate compliance and authorial dissent during the times when the Orthodox Church was outlawed in Poland-Lithuania.

Author

• Maria Ivanova, McGill U (Canada)