The Multilingualism of Dutch Rhetoricians: Jan van den Dale’s Uure van den doot (Brussels, c. 1516) and the Use of Language

One of the most important trends in the communication history of Western Europe is the often neglected rise of communal theatrical cultures after 1450. That is to say, the advent of the printing press, the surge in manuscript production, and the technological innovations of visual culture were chronologically tied to the flourishing of theatrical cultures. In fact, evidence from all over urban Europe indicates that print and manuscript culture as well as visual and theatrical culture became increasingly interdependent and integrated on the level of content and form, skills and techniques, and the creative communities that patronized, sustained, developed, appropriated