Books and Prints at the Heart of the Catholic Reformation in the Low Countries (16th–17th centuries)

Renaud Adam, Ph.D. (2011) works as an expert for the auction house Arenberg Auctions in Brussels. He has published books and articles on the history of the book in the Southern Netherlands (15th–17th centuries), including Vivre et imprimer dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux (Brepols, 2018). Rosa De Marco, Ph.D. (2014), is in charge of the heritage of the University of Lorraine Libraries. In addition to articles on baroque ceremonies and emblematics, she recently coedited Eliciting Wonder: The Emblem on the Stage (GES-Droz, 2021). Malcolm Walsby is professor of book history at Enssib in Lyon and director of the Gabriel Naudé research centre. He has published extensively on European book history during the Renaissance and has edited bibliographies on French and Netherlandish books.

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1 Books and Prints at the Heart of the Catholic Reformation in the Low Countries (16th–17th Centuries)

 Renaud Adam, Rosa De Marco and Malcolm Walsby



Part 1: Book Production and Book Business

2 A Window of Opportunity: Framing Female Owner-Managers of Printing Houses in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp

 Heleen Wyffels



3 The Printing Industry and the Counter-Reformation in Brussels under Archduke Albert and Archduchess Isabella (1598–1633)

 Renaud Adam



4 Successful Strategies for Creating a Devotional Best Seller: Canisius’s Manuale Catholicorum Published by the Plantin Press

 Dirk Imhof



5 International Sales of Tridentine Emblems Books by the Antwerp Officina Plantiniana: The Case of Father Joannes David at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century

 Renaud Milazzo



Part 2: Publishing Enterprises

6 A French Book in the Low Countries: Matthieu de Launoy’s Déclaration et Réfutation and Its Reissues in Douai, Cambrai and Antwerp (1578–1579)

 Alexander Soetaert



7 ‘Per Modum Compendii a Leonardo Damerio Leodiensi in Lucem Editum’: Odo van Maelcote, Léonard Damery, the Astrolabium Aequinotiale, and the Parallactic Print between Italy and the Southern Netherlands in the Age of Galileo

 Ruth Sargent Noyes



8 An Imperial Crusade? Public Opinion in Antwerp and the Response to the Bohemian Crisis

 Paul Arblaster



9 Printed Christian hilaritas under Archdukes Albert and Isabel (1598–1621)

 Johan Verberckmoes



Part 3: Prints and Iconography

10 Militant Printers’ Marks across the Southern Low Countries (1561–1640): A Survey at the Heart of the Emblematic Era

 Rosa De Marco



11 The Counter-Reformation and Its Rebranding through Images: The Frontispieces of Books Printed in Antwerp

 Annelyse Lemmens



12 Thesis Prints Dedicated to Archduke Leopold William of Austria, in the Service of the Pietas Austriaca

 Gwendoline de Mûelenaere



13 The Iconography of the Last Supper in Géronimo Nadal’s Evangelicæ historiæ imagines

 Valentine Langlais



Index