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.

• AbbreviationsIntroduction1 Development of the Production of Thesis Prints in the Southern NetherlandsA Teaching in the Spanish NetherlandsB Development of Thesis Broadsides during the Seventeenth CenturyC The Antwerp Context in the First Half of the Seventeenth CenturyD Other Productions in the Southern Low CountriesE Print Run, Distribution, and Conservation of Thesis Prints2 The Manufacture of the Thesis EngravingA The Broadsheet Medium: Complementarity of Text and ImageB Status of the Image: From Knowledge Organization to Message CodingC The Posters, “Ephemera”?D Towards a “Painting-Page”: Progressive Iconization of the MarginE Devices for Framing and Displaying Text: From Ornament to Allegory3 The Use of Symbolic Language in Thesis PrintsA Personifications: Noetic and Encomiastic IssuesB Justitia, Academic Discipline and Imperial Virtue: Theses Addressed to Ferdinand III and His SonC Paradoxical Formulas to Give Multiple Praise: Theses Dedicated to Leopold Wilhelm of AustriaD The Celebration of the Virgin Mary4 Staging the Placards within the Context of Court PatronageA Mise en abyme of the DonationB Public Defense, a Baroque SpectacleConclusionCatalogue of Thesis PrintsAppendixA List of IllustrationsB List of Thesis Prints by Teaching InstitutionC List of Thesis Prints by LocationBibliographyA Primary SourcesB Secondary SourcesIndex