In many histories of early modern printing houses, women play a secondary role. Heleen Wyffels questions this narrative and asks instead: what happens when we read the stories that printers themselves told about their family businesses? Read her article for free: doi.org/10.51750/eml... #bookhistory

How did economic transformations alter women’s work and vice versa? Ariadne Schmidt examines developments in the historiography on women’s work and pleads for a diversified approach to better understand the interplay between gender relations and the economy. doi.org/10.51750/eml...

We launched our latest issue on Early Modern Women in the Low Countries at Columbia University in New York. Give us a follow or tell your friends to follow us, this week we will post about the articles in the issue. So stay tuned! www.emlc-journal.org

We are planning a festive issue for our tenth anniversary🥳. We are looking for potential contributions! #CfP, please spread this as widely as possible. And get in touch if you have questions, all details below. #LowCountries

Why would printers from Rome, Frankfurt an der Oder, Dillingen or Pont à Mousson request a printing privilege in the 17th c. Habsburg Netherlands or the Dutch Republic?
@ninalamal.bsky.social explores the phenomenon of cross-border requests #Earlymodern #bookhistory
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Check out our new special issue edited by Marius Buning and Marlise Rijks on printing privileges in early modern Low Countries
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#legalhistory Stef van Gompel debunks the persistent myth that Dutch schoolbooks were not protected by printing privileges #openeducationalbooks doi.org/10.51750/eml...

Nina Geerdink focusses on psalmists and printers of psalters and their engagement with the system of printing privileges and asks how this system interacted with the pluralism of the seventeenth-century Dutch religious landscape #authors #religioushistory doi.org/10.51750/eml...

How to deal with disruptive image-technology in the early modern period? Marlise Rijks explores this question for early modern printmakers in the Low Countries. #arthistory #skystorians #earlymodern #printmaking doi.org/10.51750/eml...

How did printing privileges forge connections and shape boundaries, as well as influence authorship and the public domain? Check out the introduction to our interdisciplinary issue edited by Marlise Rijks & Marius Bunning on early modern printing privileges in Low Countries. doi.org/10.51750/eml...

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