Themed lecture/Lecture Hans Mulder

Europe around 1600: a continent in transformation Europe seems self-evident – until you try to explain what it actually is. In a time when the world stage is faltering and shared answers are becoming more urgent, historian Hans Mulder takes a fresh look at the continent we think we know, anno 1600. How did Europeans live, what did they believe in, what divided them and what brought them together? Mulder, known for books such as De ontdekking van de natuur (Jan Wolkers Prize) and Europa. De zestiende eeuw, combines cultural history with sharp historical insight. He shows how ideas, objects and people travelled, how religion, science and art influenced each other, and how local phenomena became part of a larger European story. A kaleidoscopic reading that sharpens the focus on the cultural landscape behind the music of Laus Polyphoniae.