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Early Modern Low Countries, 2022

This essay examines early modern alba amicorum as collections of social and intel-lec... more This essay examines early modern alba amicorum as collections of social and intel-lectual networks, personal memories, and other textual and visual materials. In what way are these ‘paper worlds’ related to collections of objects, and to networks of con-nections? How do they interact with other book and manuscript genres, such as the emblem and the costume book? Taking the album of the Dutch collector Bernardus Paludanus (1550-1633) as a case study, an argument will be made regarding the conceptual and material kinship of alba with other forms of manuscript and print collections. The intermediality and materiality of friendship books will be shown to be crucial aspects for understanding how this medium functioned within early modern cultures of collecting and the communal production of memory and knowledge.

Introduction, Marika Keblusek 1: The embassy of art. Diplomats as cultural brokers, Marika Keblus... more Introduction, Marika Keblusek 1: The embassy of art. Diplomats as cultural brokers, Marika Keblusek 2: Art and patronage. Sir Henry Wotton and the Venetian embassy 1604-1624, Robert Hill 3: Early modern contact between Holland and Hungary. Pieter Cornelisz Brederode, diplomat and scholar, Kees Teszelszky 4: Giovanni Andrea Doria. Citizen of Genoa, Prince of Melfi, agent of King Philip II of Spain, Thomas Kirk 5: Politics and letters. Gisbert Cuper as a servant of two Republics, Bianca Chen 6: The Italian jesuit Martino Martin in China and his contacts with the Amsterdam printer Joan Blaeu, Paul Begheyn SJ 7: Mercator sapiens. Merchants as cultural entrepeneurs, Marika Keblusek 8: Acquiring artistic expertise. The agent Daniel Nijs and his contacts with artists in Venice, Maartje van Gelder 9: Garcia de Yllan. A merchant in silver, bread and bullets and a broker in art, 1591-1655, Maurits A. Ebben 10: The pretext of painting. Artists as cultural and political agents, Marika Keblusek ...

In 1632, the humanist scholar Caspar Barlaeus officially opened the newly established Amsterdam A... more In 1632, the humanist scholar Caspar Barlaeus officially opened the newly established Amsterdam Atheneum with his inaugural lecture Mercator sapiens (The Wise Merchant).1 Addressing an audience of mostly merchants and magistrates, Barlaeus chose to discuss the ‘exceptionally fruitful exchange between commerce and the study of humanities and philosophy’.2 Commerce, he claimed, could not and should not exist without culture. Therefore, Barlaeus promoted the collaboration of ‘trade and philosophy’, claiming that merchants would be happiest and most likely to be successful professionally if they immersed themselves in serious study. Tracing the connection between business and scholarship back to ancient times (rather than discussing biblical perspectives), he referred to Plato, who, in his writings about the perfect state, had stressed the importance of merchants—in Barlaeus’ paraphrase, ‘not only those who buy and sell material stuff, but also those who sell to others, for a reasonable...

English Studies, 2011

... Cultural and Political Brokerage in Early Modern Europe, Edited by: Keblusek, Marika and Nold... more ... Cultural and Political Brokerage in Early Modern Europe, Edited by: Keblusek, Marika and Noldus, Badeloch. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 26. Kooijmans, L. 1997. Vriendschap en de kunst van het overleven in de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker. 27. ...

De Zeventiende Eeuw. Cultuur in de Nederlanden in interdisciplinair perspectief

has written on early modern book history, court culture and the history of collections. In 2011, ... more has written on early modern book history, court culture and the history of collections. In 2011, Double agents. Cultural and political brokerage in early modern Europe was published. She is currently working on the collections and album amicorum of Bernhardus Paludanus (1550-1633).

... Utterly independent of the weather, be it storm, thunder, lightning or total calm, the ship c... more ... Utterly independent of the weather, be it storm, thunder, lightning or total calm, the ship could sail fifteen miles in an hour, or 180 miles in ... In 1648, the Italian engineer Tito-Livio Burattini, who was living at the court of the King of Poland, constructed a so-called “flying dragon ...

Scandinavian Journal of History, 2003

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 03468750310003640, Jun 8, 2010

Early Modern Low Countries, 2022

This essay examines early modern alba amicorum as collections of social and intel-lec... more This essay examines early modern alba amicorum as collections of social and intel-lectual networks, personal memories, and other textual and visual materials. In what way are these ‘paper worlds’ related to collections of objects, and to networks of con-nections? How do they interact with other book and manuscript genres, such as the emblem and the costume book? Taking the album of the Dutch collector Bernardus Paludanus (1550-1633) as a case study, an argument will be made regarding the conceptual and material kinship of alba with other forms of manuscript and print collections. The intermediality and materiality of friendship books will be shown to be crucial aspects for understanding how this medium functioned within early modern cultures of collecting and the communal production of memory and knowledge.

Introduction, Marika Keblusek 1: The embassy of art. Diplomats as cultural brokers, Marika Keblus... more Introduction, Marika Keblusek 1: The embassy of art. Diplomats as cultural brokers, Marika Keblusek 2: Art and patronage. Sir Henry Wotton and the Venetian embassy 1604-1624, Robert Hill 3: Early modern contact between Holland and Hungary. Pieter Cornelisz Brederode, diplomat and scholar, Kees Teszelszky 4: Giovanni Andrea Doria. Citizen of Genoa, Prince of Melfi, agent of King Philip II of Spain, Thomas Kirk 5: Politics and letters. Gisbert Cuper as a servant of two Republics, Bianca Chen 6: The Italian jesuit Martino Martin in China and his contacts with the Amsterdam printer Joan Blaeu, Paul Begheyn SJ 7: Mercator sapiens. Merchants as cultural entrepeneurs, Marika Keblusek 8: Acquiring artistic expertise. The agent Daniel Nijs and his contacts with artists in Venice, Maartje van Gelder 9: Garcia de Yllan. A merchant in silver, bread and bullets and a broker in art, 1591-1655, Maurits A. Ebben 10: The pretext of painting. Artists as cultural and political agents, Marika Keblusek ...

In 1632, the humanist scholar Caspar Barlaeus officially opened the newly established Amsterdam A... more In 1632, the humanist scholar Caspar Barlaeus officially opened the newly established Amsterdam Atheneum with his inaugural lecture Mercator sapiens (The Wise Merchant).1 Addressing an audience of mostly merchants and magistrates, Barlaeus chose to discuss the ‘exceptionally fruitful exchange between commerce and the study of humanities and philosophy’.2 Commerce, he claimed, could not and should not exist without culture. Therefore, Barlaeus promoted the collaboration of ‘trade and philosophy’, claiming that merchants would be happiest and most likely to be successful professionally if they immersed themselves in serious study. Tracing the connection between business and scholarship back to ancient times (rather than discussing biblical perspectives), he referred to Plato, who, in his writings about the perfect state, had stressed the importance of merchants—in Barlaeus’ paraphrase, ‘not only those who buy and sell material stuff, but also those who sell to others, for a reasonable...

English Studies, 2011

... Cultural and Political Brokerage in Early Modern Europe, Edited by: Keblusek, Marika and Nold... more ... Cultural and Political Brokerage in Early Modern Europe, Edited by: Keblusek, Marika and Noldus, Badeloch. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 26. Kooijmans, L. 1997. Vriendschap en de kunst van het overleven in de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker. 27. ...

De Zeventiende Eeuw. Cultuur in de Nederlanden in interdisciplinair perspectief

has written on early modern book history, court culture and the history of collections. In 2011, ... more has written on early modern book history, court culture and the history of collections. In 2011, Double agents. Cultural and political brokerage in early modern Europe was published. She is currently working on the collections and album amicorum of Bernhardus Paludanus (1550-1633).

... Utterly independent of the weather, be it storm, thunder, lightning or total calm, the ship c... more ... Utterly independent of the weather, be it storm, thunder, lightning or total calm, the ship could sail fifteen miles in an hour, or 180 miles in ... In 1648, the Italian engineer Tito-Livio Burattini, who was living at the court of the King of Poland, constructed a so-called “flying dragon ...

Scandinavian Journal of History, 2003

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 03468750310003640, Jun 8, 2010