Knowledge of Normativity and The Early Modern Book. Legislation, Legal Authorship, and Visualizing Normativity

This two-day workshop hosts the third meeting of the Max Planck Partner Group “The Production of Knowledge of Normativity and the Early Modern Book Trade”, led by Manuela Bragagnolo. The aim of the group members’ joint research is to investigate the extent to which, following the emergence of the early modern book trade, the production, circulation, and consumption of legal books had an impact on the production of knowledge of normativity. In this workshop, group members will explore the knowledge of normativity of different types, ranging from demonology to military discipline. Moreover, they will focus, among other things, on the following topics: early modern legislation regulating the production and circulation of normative books; the visualization of knowledge of normativity on printed books; and authorship of legal books.