PUBLICATIONS
Below you can find a list of my publications. Some of these are fully Open Access, and you can access the text by clicking on the link in the description.
The bookshop of the world. making and trading books in the dutch golden age
Published in February 2019 by Yale University Press. Out now in paperback.
Also available in Dutch as De Boekhandel van de Wereld. Drukkers, boekverkopers en lezers in de Gouden Eeuw (Amsterdam: Atlas Contact, 2019).
two volumes on the invention of newspaper advertising
Arthur der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree, THE DUTCH REPUBLIC AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN ADVERTISING (Leiden: Brill, 2020) & News, Business and Public Information. Advertisements and Announcements in Dutch and Flemish newspapers, 1620-1675 (Leiden: Brill, 2020).
The history of newspaper advertising began in the seventeenth-century Low Countries. The newspaper publishers of the Dutch Republic were the first to embrace advertisements, decades before their peers in other news markets in Europe. In these two works, Andrew Pettegree and I have brought together the first 6,000 advertisements placed in Dutch and Flemish newspapers between 1620 and 1675. In The Dutch Republic and the Birth of Modern Advertising we offer for the first time a complete overview of the development of newspaper advertising and its impact on the Dutch book trade, economy and society. In these evocative announcements, ranging from advertisements for library auctions, the publication of new books, pamphlets and maps to notices of crime, postal schedules or missing pets, the seventeenth century is brought to life. This survey offers a unique perspective on daily life, personal relationships and societal change in the Dutch Golden Age. In News, Business and Public Information. Advertisements and Announcements in Dutch and Flemish Newspapers, 1620-1675, we provide an English translation of all extant advertisements from 1620-1675, accompanied by seven analytical indices. It is an invaluable source volume to all interested in the history of the Dutch Republic.
dutch and flemish newspapers of the seventeenth century, 1618-1700
Published in two volumes by Brill in 2017. Available here. Read more, including reviews, here.
“an astonishing achievement” […] “an invaluable reference work for anyone working on the history of newspapers in seventeenth-century Europe, or on the book trade in the early modern Netherlands. […] These two volumes are immensely welcome, both as an intervention in scholarship on news in early modern Europe, and as a contribution to bibliography that will be invaluable for decades to come.” - Joad Raymond, Renaissance Quarterly, 71 (2018)
book trade catalogues in early modern europe
This collection, edited by myself, Andrew Pettegree and Graeme Kemp, offers in seventeen chapters the latest scholarship on book catalogues in early modern Europe. Contributors discuss the role that these catalogues played in bookselling and book auctions, as well as in guiding the tastes of book collectors and inspiring some of the greatest libraries of the era. Catalogues in the Low Countries, Britain, Germany, France and the Baltic region are studied as important products of the early modern book trade, and as reconstructive tools for the history of the book. These catalogues offer a goldmine of information on the business of books, and they allow scholars to examine questions on the distribution and ownership of books that would otherwise be extremely difficult to pursue.
SCholarly articles and chapters
on the history of printing and the book trade
‘What was published in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic?’, co-written with Andrew Pettegree, Livre. Revue Historique (2018), pp. 1-22. Open access here.
‘The library as a weapon of state. The pamphlet collection of Gaspar Fagel in Trinity College, Dublin’, co-written with Andrew Pettegree, in Elizabethann Boran (ed.), Book Collecting in Britain and Ireland, 1650-1850 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2018), pp. 223-235. Order here.
‘Fear and Loathing in Weesp. Personal and political networks in the Dutch print world’, in Graeme Kemp and Alexander Wilkinson (eds.), Negotiating Conflict and Controversy in the Early Modern Book World (Leiden: Brill, 2019), pp. 88-106. Subscribed access here.
‘Forms, Handbills and Affixed Posters. Surveying the Ephemeral Print Production of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic’, co-written with Andrew Pettegree, Quaerendo, 50 (2020), pp. 15-40. Read here.
‘Lost and found. On the trail of the forgotten literature of the Dutch Golden Age’, Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis, 27 (2020), pp. 45-65.
‘Book trade catalogues: from bookselling tool to book historical source’, co-written with Andrew Pettegree and Graeme Kemp, in our Book Trade Catalogues in Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2021), pp. 3-32. Order here.
‘Sold in a closed room. Auctioning Libri Prohibiti in the Dutch Golden Age, 1670-1720’, in Arthur der Weduwen, Andrew Pettegree and Graeme Kemp (eds.), Book Trade Catalogues in Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2021), pp. 319-360. Order here.
‘The Library as Totem: building ideology, creating targets’, co-written with Andrew Pettegree, in Gustavs Strenga and Andris Levāns (eds.), Catalogue of the Riga Jesuit College Book Collection (1583-1621). History and Reconstruction of the Collection (Riga: Latvijas Nacionālābibliotēka, 2021), pp. 25-32. Also published in Latvian in the same volume (pp. 35-43).
‘Exile, expansion and commerce: Dutch printing outside the Low Countries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries’, in Arthur der Weduwen and Malcolm Walsby (eds.), The Book World of Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honour of Andrew Pettegree, Volume 2 (Leiden: Brill, 2022), pp. 211-240. Order here.
on Newspapers & periodicals
'Towards a complete bibliography of seventeenth-century Dutch newspapers: Delpher and its applications’, Tijdschrift voor Tijdschriftstudies 38 (2015), pp. 21-27. Open access here.
‘Utrecht’s First Newspaper Re-discovered: Adriaen Leenaertsz and the Nieuwe Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt ende Nederlant (1623)’, Quaerendo 46, No. 1 (2016), pp. 1-19. Subscribed access here.
‘A Brussels competitor to Abraham Verhoeven? The discovery of the serial Nouvelles Neutrelles (1621)’, De Gulden Passer 95, No. 1 (2017), pp. 37-60. Journal website here.
‘The Battle of the Downs: reporting victory and defeat in the early periodical press’, Media History 24, No. 1 (2018), pp. 1-25. Subscribed access here.
‘Competition, choice and diversity in the newspaper trade of the Golden Age’, The Early Modern Low Countries 2, No. 1 (2018), pp. 7-23. Open access here.
‘Boek van het Jaar. Vierhonderd jaar Nederlandse kranten. De Courante uyt Italien en Tijdinghen uyt verscheyde quartieren (1618)’, Jaarboek van het Nederlands Genootschap van Bibliofielen, 26 (2019), pp. 27-57.
‘News from Prague: The Bohemian Revolt and the Birth of the Dutch Newspaper (1618)’, Slovo a Smysl (Word and Sense), 33 (2020), pp. 242-248. Open access here.
‘An unknown early monthly journal of the Netherlands: Joost Smient and Den Nederlantse Mercurius (1665)’, Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis, 28 (2021), pp. 197-222. Open access here.
on newspaper Advertising
‘Publicity and its Uses. Lost Books as Revealed in Newspaper Advertisements in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic’, co-written with Andrew Pettegree, in Flavia Bruni and Andrew Pettegree (eds.), Lost Books. Reconstructing the Print World of Pre-Industrial Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 202-222. Open access here.
‘From piety to profit: the development of newspaper advertising in the Dutch Golden Age’, in Siv Gøril Brandtzaeg, Paul Goring and Christine Watson (eds.), Travelling Chronicles: Episodes in the History of News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century (Leiden: Brill, 2018), pp. 233-253. Open access here.
‘News, Neighbours, and Commerce: Newspaper Advertising in the Information Culture of the Dutch Republic’, co-written with Andrew Pettegree, The Early Modern Low Countries 2, No. 1 (2018), pp. 103-118. Open access here.
‘Booksellers, newspaper advertisements and a national market for print in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic’, in Shanti Graheli (ed.), Buying and Selling. The Business of Books in Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2019), pp. 420-447. Subscribed access here.
on POlitical culture and communication
‘“Everyone has hereby been warned.” The Structure and Typography of Broadsheet Ordinances and the Communication of Governance in the Early Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic’, in Andrew Pettegree (ed.), Broadsheets: Single-Sheet Publishing in the First Age of Print (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. 240-267. Subscribed access here.
‘The politics of print in the Dutch Golden Age: the Ommelander Troubles (c. 1630-1680)’, in Nina Lamal, Jamie Cumby and Helmer J. Helmers (eds.) Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2021), pp. 148-177. Open access here.
on the dutch republic and its disaster year (1672)
‘Van Rampjaar tot geschiedenisles: totstandkoming, productie, gebruik en invloed van de Nieuwe Spiegel’, in Nicoline van der Sijs and Arthur der Weduwen (eds.), Franse Tirannie. Het Rampjaar 1672 op school (Zwolle: Waanders, 2022), pp. 29-55. Order here.
‘Druk, lees en huiver: vroege herinneringen aan het Rampjaar’, Holland Historisch Tijdschrift, 54 (2022), pp. 193-202. Order here.
‘French Tyranny at School. The Disaster Year (1672) and the Nieuwe Spiegel der Jeugd’, Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis, 29 (2022), pp. 60-108. Open access here.
professional translation
Two chapters, from Dutch to English, for Joop Koopmans, Early Modern Media and the News in Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2018).