The Culture of Celebration: Commemorative Print in Europe, 1450-1700

该项目将通过探索当时庆祝活动和节日中一个一直存在但却被忽视的特征：廉价、短暂的印刷品，来推进对早期现代欧洲历史的了解。毕业典礼、婚礼、庆典、博览会：来自社会各个阶层的参与者都在寻找廉价的印刷品来纪念那些塑造和标记他们生活的特殊事件。该项目利用档案研究来研究迄今为止未被探索过的印刷品，通过提供对生活里程碑和当地庆祝活动的新见解，为社会和文化历史做出贡献。它还将加入书史研究的先锋行列，关注日常生活的印刷品：蜉蝣。

The project will advance knowledge of early modern European history by exploring an ever-present, yet neglected, feature of celebrations and festivals during the period: cheap, ephemeral print. Graduations, weddings, pageants, fairs: participants from across the social spectrum looked to cheap print to commemorate the special events that shaped and marked their lives. Using archival research to examine bodies of hitherto unexplored print, the project will contribute to social and cultural histories by providing new insights into life milestones and local celebrations. It will also join the vanguard of book history research by attending to the print of everyday life: ephemera.