It is well known that early modern printers had international networks and were often mobile. A lot has been written about printers from the Southern Netherlands who, for confessional or economical reasons, migrated to the Dutch Republic and helped shape the Dutch Golden Age. Much less attention has been paid to printers who moved in other…[Read more]

In dit artikel wordt voor het eerst de biografie geschetst van de Antwerpse drukker en krantenuitgever Maarten Binnart. Afkomstig uit Thuringen en luthers opgegroeid bekeerde Binnart zich tijdens of kort na zijn studies aan de universiteit van Jena tot het katholicisme en trok hij naar Antwerpen. Daar werkte hij twintig jaar in de Plantijnse…[Read more]

This article explores the often dire financial situations of early modern newspaper publishers in the Low Countries. It specifically analyses and contextualizes the business plan of the Gazette van Antwerpen around 1773, using a budget for a typical year that was incorporated in an essay written by the newspaper’s editor of the time, Jacob Van d…[Read more]

Although early modern journals have frequently been used as sources in historical research, we know very little about the way they were actually made. In this article, which is part of a PhD research, we will meet some of the people who were responsible for the Gazette van Antwerpen, a newspaper that appeared throughout the 18th century. For the…[Read more]