Woodcuts as Reading Guides How Images Shaped Knowledge Transmission in Medical-Astrological Books in Dutch (1500-1550)

In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Low Countries saw the rise of a lively market for practical and instructive books that targeted non-specialist readers. This study shows how woodcuts in vernacular books on medicine and astrology fulfilled important rhetorical functions in knowledge co...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: van Leerdam, Andrea (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press
Colección:Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse boekhandel.
Temas:
Medicine, Popular > Early works to 1800.
Medical illustration > 16th century.
Wood-engraving, Dutch.
Illustration médicale > 16e siècle.
Gravure sur bois néerlandaise.
History of ideas.
History of medicine.
DESIGN / Book.
HISTORY / Study & Teaching.
MEDICAL / History.
Illustration.
History of scholarship (principally of social sciences and humanities)
History, Art History, and Archaeology
HIS
Art and Material Culture
ART & MAT
Cultural Studies
CULTURAL
Dutch and The Netherlands
DUTCH NL
Media Studies
MEDIA
history of books, woodcuts, early modern prints, history of knowledge, history of reading
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