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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