Early Modern Thesis Prints in the Southern Netherlands: An Iconological Analysis of the Relationships between Art, Science and Power

In Early Modern Thesis Prints in the Southern Netherlands, Gwendoline de Mûelenaere offers an account of the production of illustrated thesis prints in the seventeenth-century Southern Low Countries. She argues that the evolution of the thesis print genre gave rise to a specific visual language combining various figurative registers, both historical and symbolic. The book offers a reflection on the representation of knowledge in the context of academic defenses. Early Modern Thesis Prints makes a timely contribution to our understanding of early modern print culture and more specifically to t... Mehr ...