City walk or booklore? Eighteenth-century inscription hunters in action
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- Bram Vannieuwenhuyze and Martine De Reu (UGent)
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- Abstract
- This article offers a critical inquiry of the compilation of inscriptions and their transmission through books and manuscripts. It focuses on a bundle of hand-written slips which record about fifty-two inscriptions from early modern Brussels and which offers a glimpse on the preparatory work for publishing a town description or history. Its title suggests that the authors have used the peripatetic method, an approach in which an author, in the course of a stroll around a place, lists and describes any interesting buildings and sites he encounters. The method seems very appropriate when it comes to collect the texts of public inscriptions in a city or town, since it is generally thought that such texts on buildings could be read by every passer-by. Yet, nonetheless the authors of the Brussels' compilation certainly recorded texts while walking around in town, they apparently copied texts from existing books as well.
- Keywords
- inscriptions, urban space, antiquarianism, chorography, travelogues, Brussels, eighteenth century
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8701524
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- Vannieuwenhuyze, Bram, and Martine De Reu. “City Walk or Booklore? Eighteenth-Century Inscription Hunters in Action.” QUAERENDO-A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS, vol. 50, no. 3, 2020, pp. 266–309, doi:10.1163/15700690-12341455.
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- Vannieuwenhuyze, B., & De Reu, M. (2020). City walk or booklore? Eighteenth-century inscription hunters in action. QUAERENDO-A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS, 50(3), 266–309. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700690-12341455
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- Vannieuwenhuyze, Bram, and Martine De Reu. 2020. “City Walk or Booklore? Eighteenth-Century Inscription Hunters in Action.” QUAERENDO-A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS 50 (3): 266–309. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700690-12341455.
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- Vannieuwenhuyze, Bram, and Martine De Reu. 2020. “City Walk or Booklore? Eighteenth-Century Inscription Hunters in Action.” QUAERENDO-A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS 50 (3): 266–309. doi:10.1163/15700690-12341455.
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- 1.Vannieuwenhuyze B, De Reu M. City walk or booklore? Eighteenth-century inscription hunters in action. QUAERENDO-A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS. 2020;50(3):266–309.
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- [1]B. Vannieuwenhuyze and M. De Reu, “City walk or booklore? Eighteenth-century inscription hunters in action,” QUAERENDO-A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 266–309, 2020.
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author = {{Vannieuwenhuyze, Bram and De Reu, Martine}},
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journal = {{QUAERENDO-A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS}},
keywords = {{inscriptions,urban space,antiquarianism,chorography,travelogues,Brussels,eighteenth century}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{3}},
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title = {{City walk or booklore? Eighteenth-century inscription hunters in action}},
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volume = {{50}},
year = {{2020}},
}
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