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Glossary of Latin Terms in Early Prints

aedes : shop, printing establishement (In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri = [Printed] in the shop of Aldo [Manuzio] and of his father-in-law Andrea [Torresani]) angulus : corner (Ex officina Gulielmi Young, bibliopolae, no. 52 Secunda-Platea, angulo Castaneae-Plateae, M.DCC.XCIII = From the shop of William Young,…

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Bibliography 10: Academic and Primary Sources

A bibliography of primary sources relating to the Renaissance era Netherlands—original texts, English translations, and modern scholarly collections of the same. As part of this larger Dutch and Flemish Studies Bibliography, a focus is on English translations, but a number…
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Bibliography 09: Biographies

A bibliography of biographies of the many important, influential, or otherwise interesting individuals who called the Low Countries home or played a significant role in the turmoil and cultural Renaissance that occurred there. Part of a larger Dutch and Flemish…
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Bibliography 08: Economics and Colonialism

A bibliography focused on the economics, industry, exploration, and colonial impacts of the Dutch in this era. While most of these works focus on the sixteenth century, there are those works that overlap or solely address the economic and colonial…
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Bibliography 07: Arms and Warfare

A bibliography of works about the remarkable and consequential “military revolution” that was playing itself out on battlefields, in sieges, and by recruiters in town squares and taverns. Armies of pikemen, musketeers, cannons, and cavalry were growing larger, and it…
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Bibliography 06: Arts and Natural Philosophy

A bibliography focused on how the arts and the burgeoning world of natural philosophy (that would in time evolve into the scientific method) appeared in the Renaissance-era Netherlands. This is the realm of the chambers of rhetoric and the minds…
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