Early Modern Thesis Prints in the Southern Netherlands

Gwendoline de Mûelenaere, Ph.D. (2017, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium), is a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University. She has published a dozen articles on thesis prints and illustrated lecture notebooks produced in the Southern Low Countries.

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Introduction



1 Development of the Production of Thesis Prints in the Southern Netherlands

 A Teaching in the Spanish Netherlands

 B Development of Thesis Broadsides during the Seventeenth Century

 C The Antwerp Context in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century

 D Other Productions in the Southern Low Countries

 E Print Run, Distribution, and Conservation of Thesis Prints



2 The Manufacture of the Thesis Engraving

 A The Broadsheet Medium: Complementarity of Text and Image

 B Status of the Image: From Knowledge Organization to Message Coding

 C The Posters, “Ephemera”?

 D Towards a “Painting-Page”: Progressive Iconization of the Margin

 E Devices for Framing and Displaying Text: From Ornament to Allegory



3 The Use of Symbolic Language in Thesis Prints

 A Personifications: Noetic and Encomiastic Issues

 B Justitia, Academic Discipline and Imperial Virtue: Theses Addressed to Ferdinand III and His Son

 C Paradoxical Formulas to Give Multiple Praise: Theses Dedicated to Leopold Wilhelm of Austria

 D The Celebration of the Virgin Mary



4 Staging the Placards within the Context of Court Patronage

 A Mise en abyme of the Donation

 B Public Defense, a Baroque Spectacle



Conclusion



Catalogue of Thesis Prints

Appendix

 A List of Illustrations

 B List of Thesis Prints by Teaching Institution

 C List of Thesis Prints by Location

Bibliography

 A Primary Sources

 B Secondary Sources

Index