Involving Readers. Practices of Reading, Use, and Interaction in Early Modern Dutch Bibles (1522-1546) KU Leuven
In the words of the Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986): “The book is not a closed entity: it is a relation, an axis of innumerable relationships.” The book does not simply exist, but is created and shaped by the ongoing dialogue between makers and readers, text and context, time and space. This idea forms the backbone of this dissertation. In this study, I display the textual and material interactions between early ...