MEDIATE (Middlebrow Enlightenment: Disseminating Ideas, Authors, and Texts in Europe, 1665 - 1830)

MEDIATE seeks to study the circulation of books and ideas in eighteenth-century Europe by drawing on a unique corpus of 2000 - 3000 eighteenth-century private library catalogues. Developing an interoperative, Open Access database, and in close collaboration with other existing historical bibliometric databases, MEDIATE harvests data from a corpus of catalogues of smaller private libraries sold at auction in the Dutch Republic, France, Italy, and the British Isles between 1665 and 1830. MEDIATE hypothesizes that, to understand the spread of ideas and books associated with the Enlightenment movement, it is crucial to understand how these books were embedded in the cultural field at large, i.e. the literary system as a whole.

 

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Partners

Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands)

Project Team

prof. dr. Alicia C. Montoya (PI)
dr. Helwi Blom (post-doc)
dr. Evelien Chayes (post-doc)
Rindert Jagersma, MA (post-doc)
dr. Juliette Reboul (post-doc)
Anna de Wilde, MA (PhD candidate)
Micha Hulsbosch, MA (technical developer)
Joanna Rozendaal, MA (PhD candidate)

Funders

European Research Council