From Engraving to Academic Defense: The Image as a Frame in Flemish Thesis Prints
(2014) Annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) — Location: New York (27.March.2014)
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- In the seventeenth century, the academic defense of a university or Jesuit dissertation was announced by engraved broadsheets summarizing its conclusions. These thesis prints often contain a pictorial representation acting as a frame for the text. This framing image is a definite mise en abyme of the public defense, staging the reception of the thesis by the dedicatee. It provides at the same time a graphic border to the written conclusions and a representation of their oral argumentation by the student. Therefore, this visual frame reinforces the link between the spectators/readers and the thesis conclusions, merging the image contemplation with the text decoding. A selection of seventeenth-century thesis prints from the Southern Low Countries will enable us to examine the way this page setup facilitates the transmission of the message (scientific as well as rhetorical) through the combination of different iconic and semantic systems.
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de Mûelenaere, G. (2014). From Engraving to Academic Defense: The Image as a Frame in Flemish Thesis Prints. Annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), New York. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/230593