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Printing Privileges for Psalters in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic

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العنوان: Printing Privileges for Psalters in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
المؤلفون: Nina Geerdink
المصدر: Early Modern Low Countries, Vol 8, Iss 2 (2024)
بيانات النشر: openjournals.nl, 2024.
سنة النشر: 2024
مصطلحات موضوعية: printing privileges, religious literature, psalters, paratexts, History of Low Countries - Benelux Countries, DH1-925
الوصف: Starting from the assumption that printing privileges were an important way of enhancing a publication’s reputation, this article focuses on psalters, which played an important role in Protestant religious life in the Dutch Republic. Psalters were among the earliest books granted privileges by the States of Holland and the States-General, and were published with a privilege more often than other works. Furthermore, while privileges were generally applied for by publishers, in the case of psalters it was often the psalmists themselves who were the applicant. This article argues that this remarkable engagement of psalmists and printers of psalters in the system of printing privileges interacted with the pluralism of the seventeenth-century Dutch religious landscape, showing how the contexts of the privileged psalters diversified: whereas the first privileges were connected to the Dutch Revolt and the creation of a strong Reformed church, later on in the seventeenth century privileged psalters also became important within other churches. An analysis of the use of the privileges in the front matter of psalters suggests that the sense of political approval of the privilege interacted with the religious approval that psalmists sought. When aiming at an official position within the church, a psalmist was probably at a disadvantage if their work was lacking such a privilege.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2543-1587
Relation: https://emlc-journal.org/article/view/20857; https://doaj.org/toc/2543-1587
DOI: 10.51750/emlc20857
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/3b5ff7f24ec442a895d99f85b9ea021e
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.3b5ff7f24ec442a895d99f85b9ea021e
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:25431587
DOI:10.51750/emlc20857