Woodcuts as Reading Guides : : How Images Shaped Knowledge Transmission in Medical-Astrological Books in Dutch (1500-1550) / / Andrea Leerdam.

In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Low Countries saw the rise of a lively market for practical and instructive books that targeted non-specialist readers. This study shows how woodcuts in vernacular books on medicine and astrology fulfilled important rhetorical functions in knowledge co...

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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, [2023]
2023
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse boekhandel
Physical Description:1 online resource (480 p.)
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