Visual History
(2025) Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400-1750). A Research Companion — ISBN: [978-94-6270-456-5], 189-222, published
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- (en) In this chapter devoted to illustrated student notebooks produced in the early modern period, we want to highlight the various roles of this heterogeneous imagery: next to epis¬temic images there are also, among other types, ornamental and humorous images. Such visual material can give us information about the authors of the manuscripts and their curriculum, but also about topical religious or political concerns, extracurricular activities, and social networks devel¬oped during the study years. Our analysis will be based on the collected corpus from the old university of Leuven and the colleges and universities in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth written from the mid-sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Our contribution suggests a classification of images frequently added in lecture notebooks. We also highlight the practice of copying and drawing after prints, the recycling of emblematic engravings and their handling by students. Through such a handiwork activity, students would play with various meanings, customize their own manuscripts, and absorb knowledge in a sustainable way.
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Ghent University Vakgroep voor Kunst-, Muziek- en Theaterwetenschappen
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de Mûelenaere, G., & Bielak, A. (2025). Visual History. In Xander Feys, Maxime Maleux, Andy Peetermans, Raf Van Rooy (ed.), Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400-1750). A Research Companion (pp. 189-222). Leuven University Press. https://doi.org/10.11116/9789461666406