Renaissance Print Culture in the Low Countries

Graduate Student Master Class in Washington, DC

Friday, October 13, 2023, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm

Visits will include the Rare Books Division of the Library of Congress; the Rare Book and Prints and Drawings Departments of the National Gallery of Art; and a tour of a private collection of rare books from the Plantin-Moretus Press. Transportation and meals will be provided. Advance registration is required, space will be limited to a total of 15 graduate student registrants. To register, please e-mail Daniel T. McClurkin, dmcclur9@jhu.edu, before October 7, 2023.

Co-sponsored by the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute

16th-Century Northern European Print Culture Master Class

Platin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp / Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels

May 9-13, 2022

This intensive, five-day Master Class focuses on the study of the Catholic Reformation through research collections linking early modern Spain and the Spanish Empire with book and print production in the Spanish Netherlands during the 16th and early 17th centuries. This hands-on investigation responds to a critical mass of current research among JHU faculty and graduate students across four humanities departments (History, History of Art, History of Science & Technology, Modern Languages & Literatures). The program will encompass a cross- disciplinary cohort of JHU faculty and PhD students, and engage with scholars and curators in a variety of research collections through a concentrated exploration of the considerable richness of rare book and print collections in Antwerp and Brussels.