Religious Subcultures and Reading Culture: The Case of Heyman Jacobsz's Sondaechs Schoole (1623)

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)348-385
Number of pages38
JournalQuaerendo
Volume51
Issue number4
Early online date10 Nov 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2021

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© Jan van de Kamp, 2021.

Keywords

  • Dutch republic
  • Habsburg netherlands
  • Reading culture
  • Religious subculture
  • Roman catholicism
  • Sunday school

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