Over/lezen (van) emblemen. Een nieuw vaderland voor de muzen als bron van interactieve geleerdheid

Abstract

Een nieuw vaderland voor de muzen by Karel Porteman en Mieke Smits-Veldt can be read as an invitation to browse freely through the Dutch literature of the seventeenth century. The twenty-first century differs fundamentally from the seventeenth century, but the multimediality and hypertextuality of the periods are strikingly similar. Seventeenth-century emblems from the Southern Netherlands were read in non-lineary, fragmentary ways. Our changing world inspires us to re-evaluate this aspect of Renaissance literature and to read recent scholarly works in the same creative way.