Browsing by Subject "Sixteenth Century"
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<italic>Het Tapissierspand</italic>: Interpreting the Success of the Antwerp Tapestry Market in the 1500s
(2012)During the 1550s, a warehouse was constructed in Antwerp with funds from both the city government and a private investor. This building, the Tapissierspand, became the global center for selling and distributing tapestries ... -
Law, Commerce, and the Rise of New Imagery in Antwerp, 1500-1600
(2011)Marinus Van Reymerswaele's painting of 1542, <italic>The Lawyer's Office</italic>, was a completely new type of image in the history of art. It shows a lawyer and his assistant behind a desk strewn with briefs, wax seals ... -
Placing Islam: Alternative Visions of the Morisco Expulsion and Spanish Muslim-Christian Relations in the Sixteenth Century
(2013)This thesis explores attitudes of Christians toward Islam and Muslims in Spain in the sixteenth century and intends to destabilize Islam's traditional place as adversary in Early-Modern Spanish history. My research aligns ...
