IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 835: Print to the People: Vernacular Books in the Early Age of Print
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 16.30-18.00
| Organisers: | Anna Dlabačová, Centre for the Arts in Society, Universiteit Leiden Andrea van Leerdam, Departement Talen, Literatuur en Communicatie, Universiteit Utrecht |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Marco Mostert, Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Paper 835-a | Speaking up for One's Opinion: Truth-Tellers in Narratives in the First Printed Books (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Dutch, Mentalities, Printing History |
| Paper 835-b | Calendars of Shepherds in Transnational Perspective: The Many Guises of a Religious/Astrological Miscellany (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Lay Piety, Printing History, Science |
| Paper 835-c | Printed Pages, Perfect Souls: Catechesis and (Re)Formation of the Soul in the First Generation of Dutch Printed Books (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Dutch, Lay Piety, Printing History, Religious Life |
| Abstract | The advent of print in the mid-15th century made texts and images available on an unprecedented scale, to a wide and partly new audience. This session aims to explore how book producers and audiences shaped vernacular print culture at a time when boundaries between manuscript and print, Latin and vernacular, word and image, religious and secular, fiction and reality were highly fluid. Preluding an international conference on early vernacular print culture to be held in 2020 in the Netherlands, the papers analyse interplays of material, visual, and textual aspects in books containing ethical, devotional, and astrological subject matter. |