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Scriptie: De symbolische bankier

This thesis was written with the aim of mapping out the functioning of the Cultuurfonds donor circles. While previous studies focus on the patronage relationships between donors and artists, this research focuses on collective patronage and the mediating role of the Cultuurfonds. The results of this research show that the Cultuurfonds fulfils various mediating roles, including…

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Een ongehoord geluid

De saxofoonklas van het Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel tussen 1867 en 1904 Als verlicht despoot en fervent muziekliefhebber wilde koning Leopold I van het nieuwe koninkrijk België een culturele mogendheid maken. Vrijwel meteen na de Belgische Revolutie werd met zijn steun onder meer het Koninklijk Conservatorium van Brussel opgericht. François-Joseph Fétis, door Leopold benoemd tot eerste…

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Economic advancement and reputation strategies: Seventeenth‐century Dutch women writing for profit

This essay examines how economic circumstances and imperatives influenced strategies of self‐representation employed by women writing in the Dutch Republic. At the core of the analysis is the poetry of Maria Margaretha van Akerlaecken (1605–after 1662) and Katharina Lescailje (1649–1711). Economic advancement for literary authors in the Dutch Republic was defined by the marginality of…

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Naar een diachrone blik op de verdiensten van Nederlandstalige auteurs

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This article argues that it is both important and viable to develop a diachronic perspective on the profits of literary authors in the Low Countries. Up to now, conceptual and theoretical boundaries between different subdisciplines within Dutch literary studies have resulted in a compartmentalized, fragmentary narrative of the economic, social and symbolic profits of literary…

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Economic Imperatives for Women’s Writing in Early Modern Europe

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Economic Imperatives for Women’s Writing in Early Modern Europe delves into the early modern history of women’s authorship and literary production in Europe taking a material turn. The case studies included in the volume represent women writers from various European countries and comparatively reflect the nuances of their participation in a burgeoning commercial market for authors…

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