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Research Seminar: Elise Watson “Gender, Invisibility and the Circulation of Print in the Dutch Republic”

Thursday February 10, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

This presentation will examine annotation, inscription and literary exchange among Catholic lay sisters in the early modern Dutch Republic. In a country where the public practice of Catholicism was illegal, these women created community through writing on and sharing devotional books and single-sheet prints. Using surviving examples of these sources in context, I will examine how the invisibility afforded by their gender and marginalised religious status actually enhanced these women’s access to illicit print in a society that marginalised them.