Call for Papers: Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade
The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade Conference 2025 is organised by the Museum Plantin-Moretus, KU Leuven, Utrecht University, and Northumbria University as part of the FWO research project ‘Partners in Innovation. Women Publishers as Knowledgeable Agents in the Low Countries’ Book Trade (1550-1750)’. The aim of this two-day conference is to share knowledge of women’s rich and varied lives and works in the period before the rapid industrialisation of book production which changed the face of home labour for early modern women. Keynote speakers: Susan Broomhall (Australian Catholic University) and Alicia Montoya (Radboud University) Call for…