

Conference Report “The Materialities of Knowledge in Early Modern Cities”
The international transdisciplinary conference “The Materialities of Knowledge in Early Modern Cities” – organized by the research project Creating a Knowledge Society in a Globalizing World (1450–1800) – took place in Antwerp on 18th and 19th November 2016. The research project focuses on the historical roots of ‘knowledge societies’ with a specific emphasis on the creation of a ‘global knowledge society’ in the early modern Low Countries. For this conference, the project’s