Abstract
For religious subcultures, the reading of religious books was of great importance, even for Roman Catholics, renowned for their ritual-mindedness and the prevailing limitations in terms of religious reading for laypeople. This article aims to reveal the extent to which the status and role of a subculture affected the printing history and reception of religious books. The Post-Reformation Low Countries - split into the South, where the Catholics were a dominant culture, and the Dutch Republic in the North, where they were a subculture - provides an excellent case study. A very popular meditation book serves as the source for the study, namely Sondaechs Schoole (Sunday school) (1623).
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 348-385 |
Number of pages | 38 |
Journal | Quaerendo |
Volume | 51 |
Issue number | 4 |
Early online date | 10 Nov 2021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© Jan van de Kamp, 2021.
Keywords
- Dutch republic
- Habsburg netherlands
- Reading culture
- Religious subculture
- Roman catholicism
- Sunday school