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

该项目将通过探索这一时期庆祝活动和节日的一个一直存在但被忽视的特征：廉价、短暂的印刷品，来促进对早期现代欧洲历史的了解。毕业典礼、婚礼、选美比赛、集市：来自不同社会阶层的参与者希望用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。利用档案研究来检查迄今未被探索的印刷品的遗体，该项目将通过提供对生活里程碑和当地庆祝活动的新见解，为社会和文化史做出贡献。它还将加入书史研究的先锋，关注日常生活的印刷品：星历。

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.