Discovering the Riches of the Word

Sabrina Corbellini is Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the University of Groningen (department of Medieval History). Her current research is concerned with the reconstruction of the readership of religious texts in late medieval Europe. From 2008 to 2013, she was Principal Investigator of the ERC-Starting Grant project “Holy Writ and Lay Readers”. Margriet Hoogvliet is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Groningen. Her current research is concerned with readers of biblical and religious texts in French during the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. She has also published extensively on text-image relations, political communication in the period of Catherine de Médicis, and the history of cartography (Pictura et scriptura: textes, images et herméneutique des mappae mundi (XIIIe–XVIe s.), Turnhout: 2007). Bart Ramakers is Professor of Historical Dutch Literature at the University of Groningen. He specialises in medieval and sixteenth-century drama and has a particular interest in the intersections between performative and visual culture. He is an editor of the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art (NKJ).

Sabrina Corbellini, Margriet Hoogvliet and Bart Ramakers, Discovering the Riches of the Word. Introduction

Suzan Folkerts, Approaching Lay Readership of Middle Dutch Bibles. On the Uses of Archival Sources and Bible Manuscripts

Matti Peikola, Manuscript Paratexts in the Making. British Library MS Harley 6333 as Liturgical Compilation

Sabrina Corbellini, Uncovering the Presence. Religious Literacies in Late Medieval Italy

Elisabeth Salter: Evidence for Religious Reading Practice and Experience in Times of Change. Some Models Provided by Late Medieval Texts of Ten Commandments

Margriet Hoogvliet, ‘Car Dieu vault ester serui de tous estaz’. Encouraging and Instructing Laypeople in French from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Sixteenth Century

Bart Ramakers, Books, Beads and Bitterness. Making Sense of Gifts in Two Table Plays by Cornelis Everaert

Éléonore Fournié, Some Aspects of Male and Female Readers of the Printed Bible Historiale in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Ian Johnson, From Nicholas Love’s Mirror to John Heigham’s Life. Paratextual Displacements and Displaced Readers

Elise Boillet, Vernacular Biblical Literature in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Universal Reading and Specific Readers

Wim François, The Catholic Church and the Vernacular Bible in the Low Countries. A Paradigm Shift in the 1550s?

Lucy Wooding, Reading the Crucifixion in Tudor England

Federico Zuliani, The Other Nicodemus. Nicodemus in Italian Religious Writings previous and contemporary to Calvin’s Excuse à Messieurs les Nicodémites (1544)

Hubert Meeus, “What’s learnt in the Cradle Lasts till the Tomb”. Counter-Reformation Strategies in the Southern Low Countries to Entice the Youth into Religious Reading

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