Presentations
2026
Barnaby Cullen, ‘The Use and Impact of Print in the Communication of the Law in Sweden, 1600-1750’, invited conference paper, Juridical Channels of Communication and Legal Method in Scandinavia (1600-1900), Uppsala, 11-12 June 2026.
Zina Gharakhani, ‘Trust, Control, and Communication: Methods of distributing and enforcing the law by the Viennese Chancellery in the Kingdoms of Hungary and Bohemia, c. 1526-1618’, 2nd COMLAWEU Conference: Proclaiming, Affixing, Distributing: Disseminating the Law in Early Modern Europe, University of St Andrews, 5-6 May 2026.
Laura Incollingo, ‘Tracking the town crier: An excursus on the various traces of town criers’ activities across Italian archives’, 2nd COMLAWEU Conference: Proclaiming, Affixing, Distributing: Disseminating the Law in Early Modern Europe, University of St Andrews, 5-6 May 2026.
Christophe Gillain, ‘Who can proclaim the law? Jurisdictional conflict and the town crier in early modern France’, 2nd COMLAWEU Conference: Proclaiming, Affixing, Distributing: Disseminating the Law in Early Modern Europe, University of St Andrews, 5-6 May 2026.
Demi van Breukelen, ‘Communicating and enforcing the law through administrative print: Levying import and export taxes in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic’, 2nd COMLAWEU Conference: Proclaiming, Affixing, Distributing: Disseminating the Law in Early Modern Europe, University of St Andrews, 5-6 May 2026.
Barnaby Cullen, ‘The Diverse Dissemination of Ordinances in the Duchy of Pomerania, 1600-1750’, 2nd COMLAWEU Conference: Proclaiming, Affixing, Distributing: Disseminating the Law in Early Modern Europe, University of St Andrews, 5-6 May 2026.
2025
Arthur der Weduwen and Christophe Gillain, ‘Town criers in early modern Europe’, School of History Research Lunch, University of St Andrews, 12 November 2025.
Paweł Pietrowcew, ‘Dissemination of Official Publications in the Kingdom of Poland, Late 16th and Early 17th Centuries’, Acutus et Argutus: Early Modern Print Culture in Motion Conference, National Library of Lithuania, 8-10 October 2025.
Barnaby Cullen, ‘Commerce and Control: Selling the Law in the State Newspaper during Sweden’s Great Power Era (1645-1716), 17th Annual USTC/Book History Conference: Newspapers and Periodicals, University of St Andrews, 17 & 19-21 June 2025.
Arthur der Weduwen, ‘Proclamations and Ordinances as News Content in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Press’, 17th Annual USTC/Book History Conference: Newspapers and Periodicals, University of St Andrews, 17 & 19-21 June 2025.
Christophe Gillain, ‘Printing the Law on the French Periphery: The Case of Aix-en-Provence’, 1st COMLAWEU Conference: Government Print in the Early Modern World: Law, Politics and Printers, University of St Andrews, 20-21 May 2025.
Barnaby Cullen, ‘Law and Order on the Border: Swedish Ordinances in Livonia’, 1st COMLAWEU Conference: Government Print in the Early Modern World: Law, Politics and Printers, University of St Andrews, 20-21 May 2025.
Arthur der Weduwen, ‘The Rise of Government Print in Early Modern Europe’, 1st COMLAWEU Conference: Government Print in the Early Modern World: Law, Politics and Printers, University of St Andrews, 20-21 May 2025.
Paweł Pietrowcew, ‘“Calcographus noster”. The Model of a Royal and an Official Printer in Poland-Lithuania (1505–1750)’, 1st COMLAWEU Conference: Government Print in the Early Modern World: Law, Politics and Printers, University of St Andrews, 20-21 May 2025.
Laura Incollingo, ‘How to celebrate. Printed laws and regulations of public ceremonies in Early Modern Italy’, 1st COMLAWEU Conference: Government Print in the Early Modern World: Law, Politics and Printers, University of St Andrews, 20-21 May 2025.
Laura Incollingo, ‘State communication in early modern Italy. Printed laws and the people’, School of History Research Lunch, University of St Andrews, 16 April 2025.
Paweł Pietrowcew, ‘Communicating the law in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth,1506-1735. A quantitative approach [Komunikowanie prawa w Rzeczypospolitej,1506-1735. Podejście kwantytatywne]’, seminar paper for the Economic History Seminar [Seminarium Historii Gospodarczej], University of Warsaw, 15 April 2025.
Paweł Pietrowcew, ‘Communicating the law in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth,1506-1735 [Komunikowanie prawa w Rzeczypospolitej,1506-1735]’, seminar paper for the Legal History Seminar [Seminarium Historii Prawa], University of Warsaw, 3 April 2025.
Arthur der Weduwen, ‘Communicating the Law in Early Modern Europe’, invited seminar paper, University of Oslo, 24 February 2025.
Paweł Pietrowcew, ‘Communicating the law in early modern Europe. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in a comparative context. A preliminary study [Komunikowanie prawa w nowożytnej Europie – Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów na tle porównawczym. Badania wstępne]’, invited seminar paper for the Legal Heritage Lab and the Socio-Cultural History Seminar [Otwarte Seminarium Historii Społeczno-Kulturowej], Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 13 January 2025.
2024
Christophe Gillain, ‘“A machine trained to carry trouble & revolt”: Printed propaganda and the spectacle of the religious Fronde, 1654-1662’, Book Launch and Symposium on “Popular Print, Politics and Communication in Early Modern Europe”, University of St Andrews, 6 December 2024.
Laura Incollingo, ‘How (not) to survive a plague. Popular print and government communication during an epidemic’, Book Launch and Symposium on “Popular Print, Politics and Communication in Early Modern Europe”, University of St Andrews, 6 December 2024.
Barnaby Cullen, ‘“We wish and weep, weep and wish… as we are obliged and willing to do”: The Reporting of Swedish Political News in the Stralsundischer Relations Courier during the Swedish Great Power Era’, Book Launch and Symposium on “Popular Print, Politics and Communication in Early Modern Europe”, University of St Andrews, 6 December 2024.
Laura Incollingo, ‘Neapolitan broadsheets in a Florentine Archive: Masaniello’s revolt in the Mediceo del Principato series’, 16th Annual USTC/Book History Conference: Print in Archives, University of St Andrews, 17-18 & 20-22 June 2024.
Arthur der Weduwen, ‘Printed ordinances and edicts in the archives of the Dutch Republic’, 16th Annual USTC/Book History Conference: Print in Archives, University of St Andrews, 17-18 & 20-22 June 2024.
Arthur der Weduwen, ‘Multilingualism, State Communication and the Printing of Law in Early Modern Europe’, Multilingual Print in Early Modern Europe Workshop, University of St Andrews, 10 May 2024.