Date/Time
Date(s) - 6 Apr 2017
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Location
Butler Library, Room 523
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Rachel Stein, doctoral candidate in Latin American and Iberian Cultures (Columbia University) will discuss “Flemish Materiality and Iberian Globalization during the Union of the Spanish and Portuguese Crowns (1581-1640.”
In the late sixteenth century, two Flemings left Antwerp and created important centers of printing on the so-called West and East Indies. The first, the engraver Theodor de Bry, produced a lush, curated series of illustrated books from Frankfurt. The second, the typographer Pieter van Craesbeeck, produced a heterogeneous corpus of histories, hagiographies, reports, treatises, and poetry from Lisbon. This talk argues that Flemish materiality was crucial to both enterprises’ success. It will explore the distinct repercussions of exporting Flemish training, materials, and trade and artisan contacts to Protestant Germany and Catholic Portugal in the age of competing European colonialisms and confessions.
Rachel Stein recently defended her dissertation, “Re-composing the Global Iberian Monarchy through the Lisbon Press of Pedro Craesbeeck (1597-1632),” in the Department of Latin American & Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. Her research explores the intersections of early modern globalization and the history of the book. She is a recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon-Rare Book School Fellowship in Critical Bibliography.
Co-sponsored by the Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the Columbia University Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures