Pamphlets and Politics in the Dutch Republic

The Handpress World explores the impact of the invention of printing by moveable type from the first experiments of the incunabula age through to the end of the eighteenth century. In this crucial period of book history the new technology both transformed established markets for scholarly and religious literature and found a new public through the rise of the pamphlet and later the newspaper. The series will investigate every aspect of this cultural transformation, from the promotion in print of the great intellectual movements of the day through to the birth of the public library.

Femke Deen (1975) studied Cultural Anthropology and worked as a journalist for five years before starting as a PhD-candidate at the University of Amsterdam. She is currently finishing her thesis on public debate and propaganda in Amsterdam during the Dutch Revolt (1566-1580).

David Onnekink (1971) is Assistant Professor at the University of Utrecht. He has published a monograph and several edited volumes on early modern foreign policy, ideology and religious conflict. Currently he is finishing a project on ideology and Dutch foreign policy.

Michel Reintiers (1979) is researcher of early modern politics and public opinion. He completed his PhD thesis about pamphleteering during the Year of Disaster 1672 in 2008 at Erasmus University Rotterdam (published as Gedrukte Chaos. Populisme en moord in het Rampjaar 1672 (Amsterdam, 2010)).