In the early modern Low Countries, literary culture functioned on several levels simultaneously: it provided learning, pleasure, and entertainment while also sh
This volume sets out to analyse the role and function of literary culture in the formation of early modern public opinion, and proposes ways in which a modern s
Performative literary culture emerged as a set of practices that shaped production and distribution of learning in late medieval and early modern Western Europe
Did the invention of movable type change the way that the word was perceived in the early modern period? In his groundbreaking essay "The Work of Art in the Age