The workshop will focus on the impact of printing privileges on the production of knowledge in the Low Countries, in the period between about 1500 and 1800. How were privileges used to frame events? How important were they to realize specific projects?
We are interested in a variety of printed materials, including books, prints, globes, and maps. Possible topics include, for example, conflicts or collaborations between authors, authorities, and publishers; fakes and forgeries; propaganda and censorship; privileges and the rise of industries; or the legal justifications for (abolishing) the privilege system. We are especially interested in comparative views, addressing the convergence and divergences between the northern and southern Netherlands.
Co-organized with Marlise Rijks | Postdoctoral researcher: Printing Images in the Early Modern Low Countries. Patents, Copyrights, and the Separation of Art and Technology, 1555-1795 (funded by FWO)