PUBLICATIONS
Below you can find a list of my published articles and chapters in edited volumes. Some of these are fully Open Access, and you can access the text by clicking on the link in the description.
on the history of printing and the book trade
‘What was published in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic?’, co-written with Andrew Pettegree, Livre. Revue Historique (2018), pp. 1-22. Open access here.
‘The library as a weapon of state. The pamphlet collection of Gaspar Fagel in Trinity College, Dublin’, co-written with Andrew Pettegree, in Elizabethann Boran (ed.), Book Collecting in Britain and Ireland, 1650-1850 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2018), pp. 223-235. Order here.
‘Fear and Loathing in Weesp. Personal and political networks in the Dutch print world’, in Graeme Kemp and Alexander Wilkinson (eds.), Negotiating Conflict and Controversy in the Early Modern Book World (Leiden: Brill, 2019), pp. 88-106. Order here.
‘Forms, Handbills and Affixed Posters. Surveying the Ephemeral Print Production of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic’, co-written with Andrew Pettegree, Quaerendo, 50 (2020), pp. 15-40. Open access here.
‘Lost and found. On the trail of the forgotten literature of the Dutch Golden Age’, Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis, 27 (2020), pp. 45-65. Order here.
‘Book trade catalogues: from bookselling tool to book historical source’, co-written with Andrew Pettegree and Graeme Kemp, in our Book Trade Catalogues in Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2021), pp. 3-32. Order here.
‘Sold in a closed room. Auctioning Libri Prohibiti in the Dutch Golden Age, 1670-1720’, in Arthur der Weduwen, Andrew Pettegree and Graeme Kemp (eds.), Book Trade Catalogues in Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2021), pp. 319-360. Order here.
‘The Library as Totem: building ideology, creating targets’, co-written with Andrew Pettegree, in Gustavs Strenga and Andris Levāns (eds.), Catalogue of the Riga Jesuit College Book Collection (1583-1621). History and Reconstruction of the Collection (Riga: Latvijas Nacionālābibliotēka, 2021), pp. 25-32. Also published in Latvian in the same volume (pp. 35-43).
‘Exile, expansion and commerce: Dutch printing outside the Low Countries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries’, in Arthur der Weduwen and Malcolm Walsby (eds.), The Book World of Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honour of Andrew Pettegree, Volume 2 (Leiden: Brill, 2022), pp. 211-240. Order here.
‘A Nordic Press: the development of printing in Scandinavia and the Baltic States before 1700 from a European perspective’ (with Barnaby Cullen), Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture, 13 (2022), pp. 1-30. Open access here.
‘King, Bishop, Professor and Postmaster: the Early Modern Swedish Publisher’ (with Barnaby Cullen), in Barnaby Cullen, Ian Maclean and Arthur der Weduwen (eds.), Publishers in Early Modern Europe: Identities and Strategies in the Book Trade (Leiden: Brill, 2025), pp. 9-28. Order here.
‘Op zoek naar de buitenlandse pers. Het drukken van Nederlandstalige boeken buiten de Lage Landen in de zeventiende eeuw’, Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis, 32 (2025), pp. 3-23. Open access here.
on Newspapers & periodicals
'Towards a complete bibliography of seventeenth-century Dutch newspapers: Delpher and its applications’, Tijdschrift voor Tijdschriftstudies 38 (2015), pp. 21-27. Open access here.
‘Utrecht’s First Newspaper Re-discovered: Adriaen Leenaertsz and the Nieuwe Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt ende Nederlant (1623)’, Quaerendo 46, No. 1 (2016), pp. 1-19. Subscribed access here.
‘A Brussels competitor to Abraham Verhoeven? The discovery of the serial Nouvelles Neutrelles (1621)’, De Gulden Passer 95, No. 1 (2017), pp. 37-60. Journal website here.
‘The Battle of the Downs: reporting victory and defeat in the early periodical press’, Media History 24, No. 1 (2018), pp. 1-25. Subscribed access here.
‘Competition, choice and diversity in the newspaper trade of the Golden Age’, The Early Modern Low Countries 2, No. 1 (2018), pp. 7-23. Open access here.
‘Boek van het Jaar. Vierhonderd jaar Nederlandse kranten. De Courante uyt Italien en Tijdinghen uyt verscheyde quartieren (1618)’, Jaarboek van het Nederlands Genootschap van Bibliofielen, 26 (2019), pp. 27-57.
‘News from Prague: The Bohemian Revolt and the Birth of the Dutch Newspaper (1618)’, Slovo a Smysl (Word and Sense), 33 (2020), pp. 242-248. Open access here.
‘An unknown early monthly journal of the Netherlands: Joost Smient and Den Nederlantse Mercurius (1665)’, Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis, 28 (2021), pp. 197-222. Open access here.
on newspaper Advertising
‘Publicity and its Uses. Lost Books as Revealed in Newspaper Advertisements in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic’, co-written with Andrew Pettegree, in Flavia Bruni and Andrew Pettegree (eds.), Lost Books. Reconstructing the Print World of Pre-Industrial Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 202-222. Open access here.
‘From piety to profit: the development of newspaper advertising in the Dutch Golden Age’, in Siv Gøril Brandtzaeg, Paul Goring and Christine Watson (eds.), Travelling Chronicles: Episodes in the History of News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century (Leiden: Brill, 2018), pp. 233-253. Open access here.
‘News, Neighbours, and Commerce: Newspaper Advertising in the Information Culture of the Dutch Republic’, co-written with Andrew Pettegree, The Early Modern Low Countries 2, No. 1 (2018), pp. 103-118. Open access here.
‘Booksellers, newspaper advertisements and a national market for print in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic’, in Shanti Graheli (ed.), Buying and Selling. The Business of Books in Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2019), pp. 420-447. Subscribed access here.
on POlitical culture and communication
‘“Everyone has hereby been warned.” The Structure and Typography of Broadsheet Ordinances and the Communication of Governance in the Early Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic’, in Andrew Pettegree (ed.), Broadsheets: Single-Sheet Publishing in the First Age of Print (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. 240-267. Subscribed access here.
‘The politics of print in the Dutch Golden Age: the Ommelander Troubles (c. 1630-1680)’, in Nina Lamal, Jamie Cumby and Helmer J. Helmers (eds.) Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2021), pp. 148-177. Open access here.
‘Rechtsnoer des rechts, breidel des onrechts. Het Hollandts Placcaet-Boeck (1645)’, in Wim van Anrooij and Paul Hoftijzer (eds.), Tot publijcque dienst der studie. Boeken uit de Bibliotheca Thysiana (Hilversum: Verloren, 2023), pp. 160-161. Order here.
‘The Ambassador and the Press: Printed Diplomatic Letters and the Entanglement of Public and Private News Provision in the late seventeenth-century Dutch Republic’ (with Basil Bowdler), The Seventeenth Century, 39 (2024), pp. 115-141. Open access here.
on the dutch republic and its disaster year (1672)
‘Van Rampjaar tot geschiedenisles: totstandkoming, productie, gebruik en invloed van de Nieuwe Spiegel’, in Nicoline van der Sijs and Arthur der Weduwen (eds.), Franse Tirannie. Het Rampjaar 1672 op school (Zwolle: Waanders, 2022), pp. 29-55. Order here.
‘Druk, lees en huiver: vroege herinneringen aan het Rampjaar’, Holland Historisch Tijdschrift, 54 (2022), pp. 193-202. Order here.
‘French Tyranny at School. The Disaster Year (1672) and the Nieuwe Spiegel der Jeugd’, Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis, 29 (2022), pp. 60-108. Open access here.
‘Writing Doom. Old and New Perspectives on the Dutch Republic and its Disaster Year (1672)’, Early Modern Low Countries, 7 (2023), pp. 82-102. Open access here.
on the Dutch revolt and eighty years’ war
‘“Engelse ogen hebben de verwoestingen van de Lage Landen gezien”: Engelsen en de Tachtigjarige Oorlog’, in Raymond Fagel and Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez (eds.), De Tachtigjarige Oorlog in Europese ogen: De internationale geschiedenis van een nationaal verhaal (Amsterdam: Boom, 2025), pp. 47-74. Order here.
professional translation (Dutch to english)
Two chapters, from Dutch to English, for Joop Koopmans, Early Modern Media and the News in Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2018).