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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Publication day! A new issue of Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC). And we have a scoop! Joris Oddens introduces an unknown painting and argues that the painting depicts a meeting of the Dutch States General in the Statenzaal at the Binnenhof in the year 1608. Curious? doi.org/10.51750/eml...

Anonymous, Meeting of the States General in the Statenzaal at the Start of the Peace Negotiations between the United Provinces and Spain (4 February 1608), c. 1609, oil on canvas, 78 × 102 cm, The Hague, Hague Historical Museum, long-term loan from private collection of the author, photo by Ralph Kämena. State after restauration by Marjan de Visser.

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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Thanks for posting this! #earlymodern

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

We are turning #ThrowbackThursday into a #ThrowbackWeek dedicated to International Women's Day. In the first issue of our journal @martinevanelk.bsky.social wrote an article on the first actresses on the early modern stage. Available to read for free: doi.org/10.18352/eml... #openaccess #women

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‘Before she ends up in a brothel’: Public Femininity and the First Actresses in England and the Low Countries | Early Modern Low Countries

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This year we are celebrating our 10th anniversary. We are currently busy working on a festive special issue. From now on, we will also be looking back every Thursday. Please follow us and stay tuned. #throwbackthursday

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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...

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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

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David van der Linden @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

We're celebrating a decade of Low Countries scholarship! Please send in your proposal for a short essay, we'd love to hear from you.

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

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 doi.org/10.51750/eml...

Titlepage of Rerum medicarum Novae Hispaniae thesaurus, seu, Plantarum animalium mineralium Mexicanorum historia (Romae, Ex typographeio Vitalis Mascardi, MDCXXXXXI [1651])

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

📢 Marius Buning (PI @be4copy.bsky.social) explore the role of printing privileges in shaping information, cultural values and political agendas - locally and across Europe. #History #BookHistory #Skystorians #earlymodern doi.org/10.51750/eml...

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

#legalhistory Stef van Gompel debunks the persistent myth that Dutch schoolbooks were not protected by printing privileges #openeducationalbooks doi.org/10.51750/eml...

Attache granted by the States of Holland to Abraham Commelin, 11 July 1645. The Hague, Nationaal Archief, States of Holland 1602

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Can researchers rely on printed summaries of privileges? @kristofselle.bsky.social compares the original privileges granted to Balthasar Moretus I with the printed summaries. Discover the answer here: doi.org/10.51750/eml... #bookhistory #earlymodern

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

What can forgeries tell us about the perception of printing privileges in the Dutch Republic? And why was Jacob Cats's publisher so furious about a stolen coat? Read Hylkema ‘s article #forgeries #bookhistory #earlymodern doi.org/10.51750/eml...

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

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...

Titlepage of Jan van Duisberg, De CL Psalmen Davids in nederduytsche zangverssen (Amsterdam: J. van Duisberg, 1688)

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

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...

Theodor and Cornelis van Merlen, Set of eighteen small prints: Bible history and saints, c. 1670, etching, hand-coloured and gilt on vellum, 6,8 × 9,5 cm each, London, British Museum

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

In case you missed it in the chaos of Christmas: NEW ISSUE!!! And it's an exciting #BookHistory one at that! #EarlyModern #Skystorians #LowCountries #IWillKeepPuttingAllTheTagsOnEveryPost

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

In case you missed the publication of our new issue right before Christmas, do check out our interdisciplinary issue on printing privileges in #Earlymodern Low Countries #Skystorians

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Kristof Selleslach @kristofselle.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Very excited that my article on the privilege summaries printed by Balthasar Moretus I has just been published in @emlcjournal.bsky.social 😍📖 The article is available in open access at emlc-journal.org/article/view... (the DOI provided appears to be invalid) #bookhistory #earlymodern

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A Reliability Check of Privilege Summaries Printed by Balthasar Moretus I (1610-1641) | Early Modern Low Countries

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Check out our new special issue edited by Marius Buning and Marlise Rijks on printing privileges in early modern Low Countries emlc-journal.org/issue/view/1...

Ten-year privilege granted by the Privy Council to Gerard Mercator for his world map (mappa universalis),1569, Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Arch. 1179, no. 103.

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Why would printers from 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 for the first time this phenomenon of cross-border requests #printdiplomacy doi.org/10.51750/eml...

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

#legalhistory Stef van Gompel debunks the persistent myth that Dutch schoolbooks were not protected by printing privileges #openeducationalbooks doi.org/10.51750/eml...

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

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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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Leuke uitdaging! Wie komt ons helpen met een super nummer rond vrouwen in de vroegmoderne Nederlanden? (Oh, ja, stiekem dat leuke nieuws dan ook meegegeven: wordt een top volume!)

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David van der Linden @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

We zijn op zoek naar een assistent voor ons tijdschrift!

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Wil je graag ervaring opdoen bij een wetenschappelijke tijdschrift? Wij zijn op zoek naar een redactie-assistent (+/- 4 uur per week). Meer informatie over taken en je profiel in onze vacaturetekst. #Skystorians #Spreadtheword

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If you are curious to see what we have on offer, you can check out our previous issue via our website emlc-journal.org/issue/view/1...

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Vol. 8 No. 1 (2024) | Early Modern Low Countries

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

We look forward to reconnecting with #skystorians on this platform and especially with everyone working on the Low Countries. Please give us a follow and tell your friends to follow us as well! #earlymodern

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