Thesis Prints Dedicated to Archduke Leopold William of Austria, in the Service of the Pietas Austriaca

de Mûelenaere, Gwendoline
(2023) Books and Prints at the Heart of the Catholic Reformation in the Low Countries (16th-17th centuries) — ISBN: [978-90-04-50437-0], 239-267, published

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(en) The Habsburg dynasty, which ruled the Southern Netherlands in the early modern period, governed in accordance with the principles of the Pietas Austriaca. The term denotes the religious and political ideology according to which the strictly Catholic Habsburgs governed one of the largest empires in Europe. Although Pietas Austriaca is expressed under varied guises and in diverse contexts, it is nonetheless necessary to identify the personal intentions of prominent representatives of this particular form of intensely visible piety. The ceremonial prints dedicated to Archduke Leopold William of Austria, governor of the Spanish Low Countries from April 1647 to May 1656, seem particularly relevant in this matter, since they use piety and Christian virtues to affirm princely authority. This paper investigates thesis prints, whose tradition appeared at the end of the sixteenth century and developed in seventeenth-century Europe.
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de Mûelenaere, G. (2023). Thesis Prints Dedicated to Archduke Leopold William of Austria, in the Service of the Pietas Austriaca. In Renaud Adam, Rosa De Marco, Malcolm Walsby (eds.) (ed.), Books and Prints at the Heart of the Catholic Reformation in the Low Countries (16th-17th centuries) (pp. 239-267). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004510159_013