Trading Books in the Age of Rembrandt
Join fellow alumni, parents and friends of the University of St Andrews at a gathering in Chicago, and hear Andrew Pettegree, renowned Professor of Modern History, as he discusses his exciting new project for Yale University Press: The Bookshop of the World. Trading Books in the Age of Rembrandt.
Date: Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Time: 6.30pm - Reception
7.15pm - Lecture
8:30pm - Event close
"Trading Books in the Age of Rembrandt"
The seventeenth century was the Golden Age of Dutch civilization – the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer. A booming economy allowed an unprecedented number of citizens to own works of art. But if the Dutch homes were adorned with as many as three million pictures, they had ten times as many books, for this was Europe’s most literate and politically engaged society. Here Andrew Pettegree sketches new work to unlock the secrets of this buoyant book trade, applying research techniques developed in St Andrews to recreate the whole range of texts available to this new book buying public.
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Andrew Pettegree is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue. He is the author of over a dozen books in the fields of Reformation history and the history of communication including Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion (Cambridge University Press, 2005), The Book in the Renaissance (Yale University Press, 2010) and The Invention of News (Yale University Press, 2014). His most recent book, Brand Luther: 1517, Print and the Making of the Reformation (Penguin USA) was published in October 2015. His new projects include a study of Newspaper Advertising in the Low Countries and ‘Preserving the World’s Rarest Books’, a collaborative project with libraries funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.