What is the difference between a journal and a gazette? And what is a hornbook? The new online Glossary of Early Modern Popular Print Genres offers answers.
Anna-Luna Post received the Van Woudenberg Dissertation Prize from the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome for her PhD thesis ‘Claiming Fame for Galileo’.
The UCEMS Annual Lecture will be delivered by Prof. Alec Ryrie (Durham University), on 28 June 2022 in the Academiegebouw in Utrecht (on-site or hybrid).
In 2022 vindt de publieksdag rondom het thema De vroegmoderne brief ontvouwd plaats op vrijdag 13 mei, van 13.00 tot 17.00 uur in het Utrechts Archief.
Els Stronks shows that young people at the time were challenged to observe their own use of language as an object of study, developing new knowledge about language.
Geerdink will conduct a two-month study of 17th-century booksellers privileges requested by authors, Van Leerdam will study 16th-century printed 'calendars of shepherds' in four languages.