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De boekenwereld, Mar 1, 2024
Nederlandsch archief voor kerkgeschiedenis, 1994
just over 450 years ago-a certain Jan Schats from Louvain was submitted to a judicial interrogati... more just over 450 years ago-a certain Jan Schats from Louvain was submitted to a judicial interrogation at which he was called upon to justify his religious beliefs. Together with a number of other evangelically-minded fellow townsmen he was involved in what was later to be known as the Louvain heresy trial.2 I shall be returning to this trial in what follows but I would now like to draw attention to a detail in Schats's statement. After he had been questioned about the books he owned, he had to say where he had bought one of them. From 'a stranger in Antwerp standing in the churchyard', he had originally replied. This vague answer was obviously not accepted, and on a second occasion Schats confessed the true name: Mattheus Crom.3 Together with his partner and brother-in-law Steven Mierdmans, this Antwerp printer did indeed play an important role as the purveyor of religious literature for the evangelically-minded circle in Louvain. Throughout the proceedings of the trials we encounter titles of suspicious books which appear to have come from the printing shop of Crom and Mierdmans.4 They thus occupy a solid position in the series of printers in the service of the Reformation.5 1 This article is a slightly revised version of a lecture delivered on 23 September 1993 at the symposium 'Religie in overgang. Godsdienstige beleving in de Nederlanden 1520-1565', organised on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Department of History at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. 2 C.C. de Bruin, 'Beschouwingen rondom het Leuvense ketterproces van 1543', in: Rondom het Woord, 9 (1967) pp. 249-59. 3 C.-A. Campan (éd.), Mémoires de Francisco de Enzinas, t. 1-2 (Bruxelles etc. 1862) p. 344.
Religious Minorities and Cultural Diversity in the Dutch Republic
Between Lay Piety and Academic Theology, 2010
Quaerendo, 1999
The printer Gheraert Leeu, active at Gouda from 1477 to July 1484, and thereafter at Antwerp to 1... more The printer Gheraert Leeu, active at Gouda from 1477 to July 1484, and thereafter at Antwerp to 1492, is known as a remarkably successful figure in his trade. To allow a more exact specification of the factors that led to his success, the present article presents a hibliometric analysis of his publications. This analysis also serves to raise questions about the methodology to be used. The measurement of a publisher's output on the basis of the number of editions turns out to have a limited value; counts based on the number of edition-sheets lead to different and in some respects better results. The latter should ideally be supplemented with information about the edition sizes. If one wishes to study a publisher's output in relation to the content of the books, then one needs not only a universal division into subjects or genres, but also a classification suited to the particular period. For this study of a fifteenth-century publisher, a division according to mediaeval 'd...
De boekenwereld, Mar 1, 2024
Nederlandsch archief voor kerkgeschiedenis, 1994
just over 450 years ago-a certain Jan Schats from Louvain was submitted to a judicial interrogati... more just over 450 years ago-a certain Jan Schats from Louvain was submitted to a judicial interrogation at which he was called upon to justify his religious beliefs. Together with a number of other evangelically-minded fellow townsmen he was involved in what was later to be known as the Louvain heresy trial.2 I shall be returning to this trial in what follows but I would now like to draw attention to a detail in Schats's statement. After he had been questioned about the books he owned, he had to say where he had bought one of them. From 'a stranger in Antwerp standing in the churchyard', he had originally replied. This vague answer was obviously not accepted, and on a second occasion Schats confessed the true name: Mattheus Crom.3 Together with his partner and brother-in-law Steven Mierdmans, this Antwerp printer did indeed play an important role as the purveyor of religious literature for the evangelically-minded circle in Louvain. Throughout the proceedings of the trials we encounter titles of suspicious books which appear to have come from the printing shop of Crom and Mierdmans.4 They thus occupy a solid position in the series of printers in the service of the Reformation.5 1 This article is a slightly revised version of a lecture delivered on 23 September 1993 at the symposium 'Religie in overgang. Godsdienstige beleving in de Nederlanden 1520-1565', organised on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Department of History at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. 2 C.C. de Bruin, 'Beschouwingen rondom het Leuvense ketterproces van 1543', in: Rondom het Woord, 9 (1967) pp. 249-59. 3 C.-A. Campan (éd.), Mémoires de Francisco de Enzinas, t. 1-2 (Bruxelles etc. 1862) p. 344.
Religious Minorities and Cultural Diversity in the Dutch Republic
Between Lay Piety and Academic Theology, 2010
Quaerendo, 1999
The printer Gheraert Leeu, active at Gouda from 1477 to July 1484, and thereafter at Antwerp to 1... more The printer Gheraert Leeu, active at Gouda from 1477 to July 1484, and thereafter at Antwerp to 1492, is known as a remarkably successful figure in his trade. To allow a more exact specification of the factors that led to his success, the present article presents a hibliometric analysis of his publications. This analysis also serves to raise questions about the methodology to be used. The measurement of a publisher's output on the basis of the number of editions turns out to have a limited value; counts based on the number of edition-sheets lead to different and in some respects better results. The latter should ideally be supplemented with information about the edition sizes. If one wishes to study a publisher's output in relation to the content of the books, then one needs not only a universal division into subjects or genres, but also a classification suited to the particular period. For this study of a fifteenth-century publisher, a division according to mediaeval 'd...