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Project

Theatre society. Vernacular literary culture and the development of an early modern knowledge society in the Low Countries, 1450-1650
Code
3E017508
Duration
01 January 2009 → 30 September 2014
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • History and foundations
  • Humanities and the arts
    • History
  • Social sciences
    • Economic history
Keywords
early modern public domain performative literature mediasystem social and cultural history Antwerp
 
Project description

Between 1450 and 1650, the world of performative literature became the centre of a Western European media system. Performative literature also became a model for the public organization and communication of knowledge. This project studies ways in which the institutions, agents, and media of the theatre society of an early modern metropolis (in this case Antwerp) translated and applied knowledge and information.