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(1662–1669 and 1685).85 Goedaert (1617–1668) lived and worked in Middelburg his entire life.86 He operated in the same intellectual milieu as the poet Cats and the scholarly ministers Hondius and Lansbergen. He earned a living as a talented painter of still lifes, and was also active as an alchemist
-Norman original. Beginning lost. Also contains the Conception Nostre Dame (MS T). 2. A Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, 3516, f. 125r–126v. Probably completed in 1267 or 1268 and could have been copied at Hesdin, at the court of the counts of Artois. Picard. Also contains the Life of St Nicholas (MS A) and
as the initial copyright holders in their new work under the Statute of Anne, as far as recent research has uncovered, a living author did not appear in court on his own behalf for almost twenty years after the passage of the Act. 6 How is it possible that authors, arguably the central focus of
popular opinion in political processes, and they tie print to its effective cultivation. In other words, by the start of the 17th century British men and women had a means of understanding the impact of cheap print on public life, a pre-Habermasian account of the role of the public sphere. We may be
city militia or a trip on a barge meant hearing news read from popular printed publications that were available everywhere. More often, it also meant debating news with fellow travellers. In the Dutch Republic, print was everywhere. The introduction of printed publications into the daily life of
sermons. Printed sermons, which were popular and widely available in the mid-seventeenth century, are plentiful within the collection, accounting for thirty-four percent of the corpus. 70 Many of the sermons in the Gorton Chest library focussed on the importance of living a good life ‘to show the fruits
absence of administrative bodies and institutions of higher education fed into the picture of a restricted intellectual life in Norway and also failed to ignite scholarly interest in undertaking book histori- cal studies. There has also long been a perception that Norway was shel- tered from broader
apparent exclusion of, say, Scottish or Irish lists suggested by the use of ‘England’ in the project’s name is a function of terminology used in the 1980s, when the project was founded: our mandate is British, either by owner (including lists associated with British owners living abroad) or by location
of Haarlem had a flour- ishing cultural life at the time, and one of the expressions of this was a religiously motivated passion for natural inquiry. The initiative was often taken by dissenters like the Mennonites.153 The variegated natural surroundings of the city were repeatedly studied
diligently learned the catechism and subsequently he had frequently avowed his deep faith; his life and destiny could be compared to that of the biblical figure Job and he therefore counted his blessings.1 Koning is one of many people in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries who tried to earn a living by