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Miraeus Lectures | Archief

1. Paul Dyck • Picturing the Word: Antwerp Biblical Illustrations at Little Gidding • 29 april 2009 — Abstract

2. Marie-Claude Felton • To Publish AND Perish: The Misadventures of Self-Publishing Authors in 18th-century Paris • 24 juni 2009 — Abstract

3. Noël Golvers • The Jesuits in China in the 17th and 18th Centuries: The ‘Ultima Thule’ of the European Bookdistribution •28 oktober 2009 — Abstract

4. Maurice Whitehead • English and Welsh Jesuit Book Culture: Some Aspects Relating to the Low Countries, circa 1600-1794 • 2 december 2009 — Abstract

5. Renaud Adam • Alost, le berceau de l'imprimerie en Belgique? Retour sur l'atelier de Jean de Westphalie et Thierry Martens (1473-1474) • 24 februari 2010 — Abstract

6. Rémi Mathis • Red in a Black and White World. Coloured Title Pages in Early Printed Books • 28 april 2010 — Abstract

7. Bertrum MacDonald • Nineteenth Century Science in the Making: Communication of Scientific Information as Illustrated by Reading Practices and Correspondence Networks • 27 August 2010 — Abstract

8. Erik Kwakkel • Age of Innovation: The Manuscript Book in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance • 3 November 2010 — Abstract

9. Peter Shillingsburg • From Gutenberg to Google • 22 November 2010 — Abstract

10. Alistair McCleery • Maintaining the Cultural Exception: Publishing Literature in a Global Marketplace • 24 November 2010 — Abstract

11. David Shaw • Publishing the classics in 16th century Antwerp • 6 April 2011 — Abstract

12. Yann Sordet • The edition of the Imitatio Christi of Thomas a Kempis (15th-18th century) • 11 May 2011 — Abstract

13. Eltjo Buringh • Medieval Manuscript Production in the Latin West • 23 November 2011 — Abstract

14. Nicholas Pickwoad • Preserving the oldest library in Christendom: the Saint Catherine's Monastery Library Project on Mount Sinai • 1 December 2011 — Abstract

15. Michael Suarez s.j. • Ut pictura liber: Illustrations and Patrons in Enlightenment Books • 31 January 2012 — Abstract

16. Simran Thadani • A Confutation of Grosse Errors and Absurdities. Duelling Calligraphers in the London Book Trade, 1570–1720 • 21 March 2012 — Abstract

17. Sandro Jung (UGent) • Illustrated Pocket Diaries, 1779-1860: Book History’s Forgotten Genre • 24 October 2012 — Abstract 

18. Mark Purcell (National Trust) • The Libraries of the British National Trust • 23 January 2013 — AbstractPodcast

19. Peter Stallybrass (University of Pennsylvania) • Why Printing precedes Manuscript • 6 March 2013 — Abstract 

20. James Raven (Essex University) • Forms of Enlightenment: Society, Commerce and the hidden Revolution of Print in Europe, 1450-1850 • 15 May 2013 — Abstract 

21. David McKitterick (Cambridge University) • Putting the past on show. Old books and public interpretation in the nineteenth century • 22 May 2013 — AbstractPodcast

22. Luisa Calè (Birkbeck, University of London) • Blake, Young, and the Poetics of the Composite Page • 30 October 2013 — Abstract

23. Stephen Colclough • Trading Places and Reading Spaces • 13 November 2013 — Abstract

24. John Hinks (Leicester University) • The Word on the Street: Print and Urban Space during the Hand-Press Period • 20 November 2013 — Abstract

25. John Feather • The rise of the publisher: the transformation of the British book trade 1780-1840 • 19 February 2014 — Abstract

26. Jos Biemans • De stichting en vorming van de Stedelijke Bibliotheek van Amsterdam in de zestiende eeuw: waarheid of fictie? • 22 april 2015 — Abstract

27. Paul Van Capelleveen • Vlaamse private presses rond 1900: Het ontweken voorbeeld van William Morris • 6 mei 2015 — Abstract

28. Stephanie Jacobs • Romantic Book Covers in Belgium (lecture in English) • 25 november 2015 — Abstract

29. Daniel Droixhe • What’s new about Jan van Gorp, Bonaventura Vulcanius and other Flemish humanists, forerunners of the modern Indo-European comparativism in the 16th century • 9 december 2015 — Abstract

30. Earle Havens • ‘It Is Written’: Forgery, Books, and the Tower of Babel (lecture in English) • 20 januari 2016 — AbstractPodcast

31. Line Cottegnies • The Shakespeare First Folio of Saint-Omer: a bibliographical enigma (lecture in English) • 16 maart 2016 — Abstract

32. Christine Bénévent• L’Institution du prince de Guillaume Budé: le mystère des premières éditions perdues (lecture in French – communication en français) • 27 aprill 2016 — Abstract

33. Renaud Milazzo • ‘In silentium’: la double ambiguité du silence. Le commerce du livre d'emblème au XVIe et XVIIe siècle (lecture in French – communication en français) • 16 november 2016 — Abstract

34. Jeanine De Landtsheer • Justus Lipsius (1547–1606) en zijn edities van Caius Cornelius Tacitus: genese en drukgeschiedenis (Lezing in het Nederlands) • 14 december 2016 — Abstract

35. Eva Cardon • ‘Nooit Meer Alleen’, een onderzoek naar het artistieke autobiografische beeldverhaal (Lezing in het Nederlands) • 22 maart 2017 — AbstractPodcast

36. Andrew Pettegree • Print and the reformation - Luther en het boek • 22 november 2017 — Abstract (Grootseminarie, Potterierei 72, Brugge)

37. Andrew Pettegree • Luther 2017: Religion, media and propaganda (lezing in het Engels) • 23 november 2017 — Abstract • (een initiatief van UCSIA in samenwerking met de Vlaamse Werkgroep Boekgeschiedenis) (Universiteit Antwerpen, Aula R.001)

38. Arthur der Weduwen • The seventeenth-century Low Countries: an integrated newspaper market? • 24 januari 2018 — Abstract

39. Chiara Lastraioli • Fruit de l'exil et du négoce: le livre italien au nord des Alpes à la Renaissance • 21 februari 2018 — Abstract (Université de Liège, Salle du Grand Physique)

40. Karin Scheper • Nauw verwant maar slecht bekend: de islamitische boekbindtraditie in context en onder de loep • 7 maart 2018 — Abstract

41. Geneviève Guilleminot • Brugge en Parijs. Joseph-Basile van Praet en de incunabelen van Colard Mansion • 23 mei 2018 — Abstract (Hoofdbibliotheek Biekorf, Brugge)

42. Ian MacLean • Andreas Frisius of Amsterdam, and the search for a niche in the international book market (1664–1675) • 3 oktober 2018 — AbstractPodcast

43. Thomas Crombez • Het merkwaardige overleven van het boek in een wereld die werd opgegeten door software • 12 december 2018 — Abstract

44. Catherine Kikuchi • Venise 1469-1530 : un monde du livre en devenir • 19 maart 2019 — Abstract (Université de Liège, Salle du Grand Physique)

45. Marianne C.E. Gillion • Paradigmatic prints and particular performances: religious and musical identities in the liturgical books of the Cathedral of Our Lady and the Church of St. James, Antwerp • 27 maart 2019 — Abstract

46. Margriet Hoogvliet • Wollen stoffen, specerijen, altaren en boeken: Religieuze leescultuur van leken in de regio tussen Parijs en Antwerpen in de vijftiende eeuw • 15 mei 2019 — AbstractPodcast

47. Alessandro GraziMinhag Italia: Digital Approaches to Jewish Print Cultures – Nineteenth-century Italian prayer books • 2 oktober 2019 — AbstractPodcast

48. Mark McConnell• How Did Early Modern Publishers Make Decisions? Business Insights from Christopher Plantin’s Cost Records • 12 december 2019 — Abstract

49. Alexander Soetaert• De heropleving van hagiografisch drukwerk in de Nederlanden en het Prinsbisdom Luik, ca. 1520–1600 • 30 september 2020 — AbstractVideo

50. Joran Proot• De typografische transitie van “renaissance” naar “barok” in de Officina Plantiniana, 1555–1670 • 2 december 2020 — AbstractVideo

51. Zanna Van Loon • How book history can contribute to Missionary Linguistics: the social materiality of early modern handwritten and printed missionary books on the indigenous languages of New Spain, Peru, and New France • 10 maart 2021 — AbstractVideo

52. Elise Watson (University of St Andrews) • Derivative Piety: Marketing Illicit Catholic Print in the Dutch Republic • 19 mei 2021 — AbstractVideo

53. Alisa van de Haar (Universiteit Leiden) • Boek or Boeck? Plantin and Sixteenth-Century Discussions on French and Dutch Spelling • 13 oktober 2021 — AbstractVideo

54. Nikolaus Weichselbaumer (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz) • New Metrics for Bibliography in Scanned Books • 24 november 2021 — AbstractVideo

55. Anton van der Lem (Universiteit Leiden) • Fortiter et suaviter. Vier Hollandse priesterbibliotheken uit de Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden • 20 april 2022 — Abstract

56. Nathalie Collé (Université de Lorraine, Nancy) • The Visual and Conceptual Evolution of Robinson Crusoe Through Frontispieces, 1719– • 26 oktober 2022 • Abstract

57. Anna Dlabačová (Universiteit Leiden) • Printed Prayers: The Middle Dutch Book of Hours after the Introduction of the Printing Press • 22 maart 2023 • Abstract

58. Holly James-Maddocks (University of York) • Early Printed Books Illuminated in England (c. 1455-1500) • 10 mei 2023 • Abstract

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