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Violence, Trauma, and Memory: Responses to War in the Late Medieval
and Early Modern World brings together eight essays that examine
medieval and early modern violence and warfare in France, the
Hispanic World, and the Dutch Republic through the lens of trauma
studies and memory studies. By focusing on warfare, these essays by
historians, literary specialists, and historians of visual culture
demonstrate how individuals and groups living with the
"ungraspable" outcomes of wartime violence grappled with processing
and remembering (both culturally and politically) the trauma of
war.
In 1559 and 1561, the Antwerp print publisher Hieronymus Cock
issued an unprecedented series of landscape prints known today
simply as the Small Landscapes. The forty-four prints included in
the series offer views of the local countryside surrounding Antwerp
in simple, unembellished compositions. At a time when vast
panoramic and allegorical landscapes dominated the art market, the
Small Landscapes represent a striking innovation. This book offers
the first comprehensive analysis of the significance of the Small
Landscapes in early modern print culture. It charts a diachronic
history of the series over the century it was in active
circulation, from 1559 to the middle of the seventeenth century.
Adopting the lifespan of the prints as the framework of the study,
Alexandra Onuf analyzes the successive states of the plates and the
changes to the series as a whole in order to reveal the shifting
artistic and contextual valences of the images at their different
moments and places of publication. This unique case study allows
for a new perspective on the trajectory of print publishing over
the course of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
across multiple publishing houses, highlighting the seminal
importance of print publishers in the creation and dissemination of
visual imagery and cultural ideas. Looking at other visual
materials and contemporary sources - including texts as diverse as
humanist poetry and plays, agricultural manuals, polemical
broadsheets, and peasant songs - Onuf situates the Small Landscapes
within the larger cultural discourse on rural land and the meaning
of the local in the turbulent early modern Netherlands. The study
focuses new attention on the active and reciprocal intersections
between printed pictures and broader cultural, economic and
political phenomena.
In 1559 and 1561, the Antwerp print publisher Hieronymus Cock
issued an unprecedented series of landscape prints known today
simply as the Small Landscapes. The forty-four prints included in
the series offer views of the local countryside surrounding Antwerp
in simple, unembellished compositions. At a time when vast
panoramic and allegorical landscapes dominated the art market, the
Small Landscapes represent a striking innovation. This book offers
the first comprehensive analysis of the significance of the Small
Landscapes in early modern print culture. It charts a diachronic
history of the series over the century it was in active
circulation, from 1559 to the middle of the seventeenth century.
Adopting the lifespan of the prints as the framework of the study,
Alexandra Onuf analyzes the successive states of the plates and the
changes to the series as a whole in order to reveal the shifting
artistic and contextual valences of the images at their different
moments and places of publication. This unique case study allows
for a new perspective on the trajectory of print publishing over
the course of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
across multiple publishing houses, highlighting the seminal
importance of print publishers in the creation and dissemination of
visual imagery and cultural ideas. Looking at other visual
materials and contemporary sources - including texts as diverse as
humanist poetry and plays, agricultural manuals, polemical
broadsheets, and peasant songs - Onuf situates the Small Landscapes
within the larger cultural discourse on rural land and the meaning
of the local in the turbulent early modern Netherlands. The study
focuses new attention on the active and reciprocal intersections
between printed pictures and broader cultural, economic and
political phenomena.
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