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Papers by Paul Hoftijzer

Research paper thumbnail of ‘Boecken ende Anders.’ The Book Collection of the Seventeenth-Century Leiden Student Leonard van Sorgen (c.1620–1644)

The Book World of Early Modern Europe

Research paper thumbnail of Fabrics and Fabrications

Research paper thumbnail of “Such Onely as are Very Honest, Loyall and Active”: English Spies in the Low Countries, 1660–1688

Fabrics and Fabrications, 1990

Research paper thumbnail of Book History in The Netherlands

Research paper thumbnail of Fabrics and fabrications: the myth and making of William and Mary

... Of course, as convinced Protestants This paper is the expanded version of a lecture, given on... more ... Of course, as convinced Protestants This paper is the expanded version of a lecture, given on 27 October 1988 in the Great Church at Brielle on the occasion of the commemoration of the first sailing of the fleet on 27 October 1688 and of the services, held in the Church at Brielle ...

Research paper thumbnail of Leidse wetenschappelijke uitgeverij

Research paper thumbnail of Leidse drukkersmerken

Research paper thumbnail of Privilèges de librairie en France et en Europe. xvie-xviie siècles

Type de publication: Collectif Directrice d'ouvrage: Keller-Rahbé (Edwige) Directeurs d'ouvrages ... more Type de publication: Collectif Directrice d'ouvrage: Keller-Rahbé (Edwige) Directeurs d'ouvrages adjoints: Pommier (Henriette), Régnier-Roux (Daniel) Résumé: À l'intersection de plusieurs disciplines-histoire du livre, histoire du droit, histoire de la littérature et histoire de l'art-, les contributions réunies dans cet ouvrage proposent des chemins de lecture pour aborder les privilèges de librairie, en France et en Europe aux XVI et XVII siècles. Nombre de pages: 539

Research paper thumbnail of Living on the Edge – The Boundaries of the Book in the Bibliotheca Thysiana

Research paper thumbnail of The Dutch Republic, Centre of the European Book Trade in the 17th Century Dutch Book Trade

In the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic witnessed its Golden Age. The reasons for this phe... more In the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic witnessed its Golden Age. The reasons for this phenomenon are diverse, but it impacted all branches of Dutch society, including the production, distribution and consumption of printed media. The book trade benefitted from a lack of control, the result of the country’s remarkable political structure and absence of a state religion. Waves of religious and economic immigrants provided the necessary manpower, skills and creativity. Following the workings of a stable market economy, printers and publishers turned imported raw materials, including news and information, into finished products – books, newspapers, magazines – which they sold wherever there was a demand for them, at home as well as abroad. High rates of literacy and education encouraged a thriving book culture. The ascendency, however, was shortlived, as it also depended on the temporarily weak position of neighbouring countries. By the middle of the eighteenth century, with Bri...

Research paper thumbnail of Privilèges de librairie dans les anciens Pays-Bas

Research paper thumbnail of Vijftien strekkende meter

Research paper thumbnail of Fabrics and Fabrications

Research paper thumbnail of ‘An 18th-century Danish-German book collector in Leiden. Christianus Carolus von Neumann (c. 1695–1760) and his Bibliotheca Musaeana’, in G. Proot, D. McKitterick & A. Nuovo (eds.), Lux librorum. Essays on books and history for Chris Coppens (Mechelen, 2018), pp. 201-211.

Research paper thumbnail of Henry Hexham (c.1585–1650), English Soldier, Author, Translator, Lexicographer, and Cultural Mediator in the Low Countries

Renaissance Cultural Crossroads, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of A Princely Acquisition for the Bibliotheca Thysiana in Leiden: the Books of Juliana Catharina, Princess of Portugal (1607-80)

Research paper thumbnail of The Last of the Elzevier Collections?

Research paper thumbnail of "The Dutch Republic, Centre of the European Book Trade in the 17th Century", European History Online (2015)

In the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic witnessed its Golden Age. The reasons for this phe... more In the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic witnessed its Golden Age. The reasons for this phenomenon are diverse, but it impacted all branches of Dutch society, including the production, distribution and consumption of printed media. The book trade benefitted from a lack of control, the result of the country’s remarkable political structure and absence of a state religion. Waves of religious and economic immigrants provided the necessary manpower, skills and creativity. Following the workings of a stable market economy, printers and publishers turned imported raw materials, including news and information, into finished products – books, newspapers, magazines – which they sold wherever there was a demand for them, at home as well as abroad. High rates of literacy and education encouraged a thriving book culture. The ascendency, however, was shortlived, as it also depended on the temporarily weak position of neighbouring countries. By the middle of the eighteenth century, with Britain, France and the German states on the rise, the 'Dutch miracle' was over, in the world of books as well as in any other.

Research paper thumbnail of J. B. H. ALBLAS, Johannes Boekholt (1656-1693). The first Dutch Publisher of John Bunyan and other English Authors. With a descriptive Bibliography of his Publications (Bibliotheca Bibliographica Neerlandica, XXII), Nieuwkoop, De Graaf Publishers, 1987. 535 pp. ISBN 90 6004 390 1. Prijs fl. 150,_

Nederlands Archief Voor Kerkgeschiedenis, 1988

Research paper thumbnail of A sickle unto thy neighbour's corn' Book piracy in the Dutch Republic

Research paper thumbnail of ‘Boecken ende Anders.’ The Book Collection of the Seventeenth-Century Leiden Student Leonard van Sorgen (c.1620–1644)

The Book World of Early Modern Europe

Research paper thumbnail of Fabrics and Fabrications

Research paper thumbnail of “Such Onely as are Very Honest, Loyall and Active”: English Spies in the Low Countries, 1660–1688

Fabrics and Fabrications, 1990

Research paper thumbnail of Book History in The Netherlands

Research paper thumbnail of Fabrics and fabrications: the myth and making of William and Mary

... Of course, as convinced Protestants This paper is the expanded version of a lecture, given on... more ... Of course, as convinced Protestants This paper is the expanded version of a lecture, given on 27 October 1988 in the Great Church at Brielle on the occasion of the commemoration of the first sailing of the fleet on 27 October 1688 and of the services, held in the Church at Brielle ...

Research paper thumbnail of Leidse wetenschappelijke uitgeverij

Research paper thumbnail of Leidse drukkersmerken

Research paper thumbnail of Privilèges de librairie en France et en Europe. xvie-xviie siècles

Type de publication: Collectif Directrice d'ouvrage: Keller-Rahbé (Edwige) Directeurs d'ouvrages ... more Type de publication: Collectif Directrice d'ouvrage: Keller-Rahbé (Edwige) Directeurs d'ouvrages adjoints: Pommier (Henriette), Régnier-Roux (Daniel) Résumé: À l'intersection de plusieurs disciplines-histoire du livre, histoire du droit, histoire de la littérature et histoire de l'art-, les contributions réunies dans cet ouvrage proposent des chemins de lecture pour aborder les privilèges de librairie, en France et en Europe aux XVI et XVII siècles. Nombre de pages: 539

Research paper thumbnail of Living on the Edge – The Boundaries of the Book in the Bibliotheca Thysiana

Research paper thumbnail of The Dutch Republic, Centre of the European Book Trade in the 17th Century Dutch Book Trade

In the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic witnessed its Golden Age. The reasons for this phe... more In the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic witnessed its Golden Age. The reasons for this phenomenon are diverse, but it impacted all branches of Dutch society, including the production, distribution and consumption of printed media. The book trade benefitted from a lack of control, the result of the country’s remarkable political structure and absence of a state religion. Waves of religious and economic immigrants provided the necessary manpower, skills and creativity. Following the workings of a stable market economy, printers and publishers turned imported raw materials, including news and information, into finished products – books, newspapers, magazines – which they sold wherever there was a demand for them, at home as well as abroad. High rates of literacy and education encouraged a thriving book culture. The ascendency, however, was shortlived, as it also depended on the temporarily weak position of neighbouring countries. By the middle of the eighteenth century, with Bri...

Research paper thumbnail of Privilèges de librairie dans les anciens Pays-Bas

Research paper thumbnail of Vijftien strekkende meter

Research paper thumbnail of Fabrics and Fabrications

Research paper thumbnail of ‘An 18th-century Danish-German book collector in Leiden. Christianus Carolus von Neumann (c. 1695–1760) and his Bibliotheca Musaeana’, in G. Proot, D. McKitterick & A. Nuovo (eds.), Lux librorum. Essays on books and history for Chris Coppens (Mechelen, 2018), pp. 201-211.

Research paper thumbnail of Henry Hexham (c.1585–1650), English Soldier, Author, Translator, Lexicographer, and Cultural Mediator in the Low Countries

Renaissance Cultural Crossroads, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of A Princely Acquisition for the Bibliotheca Thysiana in Leiden: the Books of Juliana Catharina, Princess of Portugal (1607-80)

Research paper thumbnail of The Last of the Elzevier Collections?

Research paper thumbnail of "The Dutch Republic, Centre of the European Book Trade in the 17th Century", European History Online (2015)

In the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic witnessed its Golden Age. The reasons for this phe... more In the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic witnessed its Golden Age. The reasons for this phenomenon are diverse, but it impacted all branches of Dutch society, including the production, distribution and consumption of printed media. The book trade benefitted from a lack of control, the result of the country’s remarkable political structure and absence of a state religion. Waves of religious and economic immigrants provided the necessary manpower, skills and creativity. Following the workings of a stable market economy, printers and publishers turned imported raw materials, including news and information, into finished products – books, newspapers, magazines – which they sold wherever there was a demand for them, at home as well as abroad. High rates of literacy and education encouraged a thriving book culture. The ascendency, however, was shortlived, as it also depended on the temporarily weak position of neighbouring countries. By the middle of the eighteenth century, with Britain, France and the German states on the rise, the 'Dutch miracle' was over, in the world of books as well as in any other.

Research paper thumbnail of J. B. H. ALBLAS, Johannes Boekholt (1656-1693). The first Dutch Publisher of John Bunyan and other English Authors. With a descriptive Bibliography of his Publications (Bibliotheca Bibliographica Neerlandica, XXII), Nieuwkoop, De Graaf Publishers, 1987. 535 pp. ISBN 90 6004 390 1. Prijs fl. 150,_

Nederlands Archief Voor Kerkgeschiedenis, 1988

Research paper thumbnail of A sickle unto thy neighbour's corn' Book piracy in the Dutch Republic