Paul Arblaster

Most of my classes now focus on the cultures of the English-speaking world.

• Paul Arblaster, From Ghent to Aix: How They Brought the News in the Habsburg Netherlands, 1550–1700 (Library of the Written Word 36; Brill, 2014)

• Paul Arblaster, ‘1604: Processing News in Print in the Year before the Newspaper’, in Years of News: Event and Narration in Early Modern Times, edited by Brendan Dooley and Paola Molino (Brepols: Turnhout, 2025), pp. 28-51.
• Carmen Espejo-Cala, Paul Arblaster, and Javier Díaz-Noci, ‘Plain Truth and Misinformation in Early Modern News Networks: The Translation of the Articles of Capitulation of Breda (1625) in European Journalism’, Janus: Estudios sobre el Siglo de Oro, 13 (2024), pp. 96-136.
• Paul Arblaster, ‘Las noticias publicadas por Abraham Verhoeven en Amberes en 1621’, in El mundo en 1621: Avisos, relaciones de sucesos, conexiones culturales, edited by Manuel Borrego Pérez and Carmen Espejo-Cala (Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2024), pp. 139-161.
• Paul Arblaster, ‘Strange beasts in early-modern English Bibles: Translations and non-translations of Isaiah 13, verses 21-22’, in Cahier DD : Multilingual mélanges voor Dirk Delabastita, edited by Louise Dumont and Lieven Vandelanotte (Presses universitaires de Namur, 2024), pp. 47-53. (open access)
• Paul Arblaster, ‘Recusant Gleanings from Belgian Archives’, in Benedictus: A Blest Life. Essays in Honour of Abbot Geoffrey Scott, edited by Stella Fletcher (Weldon press, 2023), pp. 159-184.
• Nina Lamal and Paul Arblaster, ‘Spinola’s Fame in the News Press’, in Ambrogio Spinola between Genoa, Flanders, and Spain, edited by Silvia Mostaccio, Bernardo J. García García, and Luca Lo Basso (Avisos de Flandes 20; Leuven University Press, 2022), pp. 213-250.
• Paul Arblaster, ‘An Imperial Crusade? Public Opinion in Antwerp and the Response to the Bohemian Crisis’, in Books and Prints at the Heart of the Catholic Reformation in the Low Countries (16th-17th centuries), edited by Renaud Adam, Rosa De Mardo, and Malcolm Walsby (Brill, 2022), pp. 131-154.
• Paul Arblaster, ‘The Rape of Tamar in Translation: Reformation Renderings of the Corruption of Wisdom at King David’s Court’, in Déverbaliser - reverbaliser : la traduction comme acte de violence ou comme manipulation du sens? edited by Svetlana Vogeleer and Laurent Béghin (Presses de l’Université Saint-Louis, 2020), pp. 109-122.
• Paul Arblaster, ‘Two Bilingual Poets: The Mad Fiddler Misreads the English Baroque’, in Sparks and Lustrous Words: Literary Walks, Cultural Pilgrimages. Essays in Honour of Guido Latré, edited by Paul Arblaster, Ingrid Bertrand, Véronique Bragard and Dirk Delabastita (Transversalités 9; Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2019), pp. 335-343.
• Paul Arblaster, ‘“Whereof the World Now Stands in Admiration”: Reporting on the Spanish Match from the Habsburg Netherlands’, in Stuart Marriage Diplomacy: Dynastic Politics in their European Context, 1604-1630, edited by Valentina Caldari and Sara J. Wolfson (Boydell Press, 2018), pp. 227-239.
• Paul Arblaster, ‘“Our Valiant Dunkirk Romans”: Glorifying the Habsburg War at Sea, 1622–1629’, in News Networks in Early Modern Europe, edited by Joad Raymond and Noah Moxham (Library of the Written Word 47; Brill, 2016), pp. 583-596.
• Paul Arblaster, ‘Translations and Transformations: Sister Margaret of the Mother of God beyond the Brussels Carmel’, in The Spiritual Diaries of Sister Margaret of the Mother of God (Brussels 1635–1637), translated by Susan Smith and annotated by Cordula Van Wyhe (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, Toronto Series, 39; Iter Academic Press, 2015), pp. 47-60.
• Paul Arblaster, ‘“That kynde of man that is wombed”: Femininity and Heroic Virtue in the English Writings of Richard Verstegan’ in Richard Verstegan: A Versatile Man in an Age of Turmoil, edited by Romana Zacchi and Massimiliano Morini (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies 14; Brepols, 2012), pp. 77-96.
• Paul Arblaster, ‘Abraham Verhoeven and the Brussels Court: Isabel Clara Eugenia’s Staple of News’, in Isabel Clara Eugenia: Female Sovereignty in the Courts of Madrid and Brussels, edited by Cordula van Wyhe (Centro de Estudios Europa Hispanica and Paul Holberton Publishing, 2011), pp. 280-311.
• Paul Arblaster, ‘Piracy and Play: Two Catholic Appropriations of Nieuhof’s “Gezantschap”’, in Dutch Trading Companies as Knowledge Networks, edited by Siegfried Huigen, Jan L. de Jong, and Elmer Kolfin (Intersections 14; Brill, 2010), pp. 127-144.
• Paul Arblaster, ‘Antwerp and Brussels as Inter-European Spaces’, in The Dissemination of News and the Emergence of Contemporaneity in Early Modern Europe, edited by Brendan Dooley (Ashgate, 2010), pp. 193-205.
• Paul Arblaster, ‘The Southern Netherlands Connection: Networks of Support and Patronage’, in Catholic Communities in Protestant States: Britain and the Netherlands c.1570-1720, edited by Benjamin J. Kaplan, Bob Moore, Henk Van Nierop and Judith Pollmann (Manchester University Press, 2008).
• Paul Arblaster, ‘G.C., Recusant Prison Translator of the “Japonian Epistells”’, Recusant History, 28:1 (2006), pp. 43-54.
• Gergely Juhász and Paul Arblaster, ‘Can Translating the Bible be Bad for Your Health? William Tyndale and the Falsification of Memory’, in More than a Memory: The Discourse of Martyrdom and the Construction of Christian Identity in the History of Christianity, edited by Johan Leemans with the collaboration of Jürgen Mettepenningen (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia; Peeters, 2005), pp. 315-340.
• Paul Arblaster, ‘Posts, Newsletters, Newspapers: England in a European System of Communications’, Media History, 11 (2005), pp. 21-36. Reprinted in News Networks in Seventeenth-Century Britain and Europe, edited by Joad Raymond (Routledge: London and New York, 2006), pp. 19-34.
• Paul Arblaster, ‘Dat de boecken vrij sullen wesen: Private Profit, Public Utility and Secrets of State in the Seventeenth-Century Habsburg Netherlands’, in News and Politics in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1800, edited by Joop W. Koopmans (Groningen Studies in Cultural Change 14; Peeters: Leuven, Paris, and Dudley MA, 2005), pp. 79-95.
• Paul Arblaster, ‘John Foxe in the Low Countries, 1566–1914’, in John Foxe at Home and Abroad, edited by David Loades (Ashgate: Aldershot and Burlington VT, 2004), pp. 137-149.
• Paul Arblaster, ‘Totius Mundi Emporium: Antwerp as a Centre for Vernacular Bible Translations, 1523–1545’, in The Low Countries as a Crossroads of Religious Beliefs, edited by Arie-Jan Gelderblom, Jan L. De Jong and Marc Van Vaeck (Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies 3; Brill: Leiden and Boston, 2004), pp. 9-31.
• Paul Arblaster, ‘Policy and the Press in the Habsburg Netherlands, 1585–1690’, in The Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe, edited by Brendan Dooley & Sabrina A. Baron (Routledge Studies in Cultural History 1; London & New York, 2001), pp. 179-198.
• Paul Arblaster, ‘London, Antwerp and Amsterdam: Journalistic Relations in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century’, in The Bookshop of the World: The Role of the Low Countries in the Book Trade, 1473–1941, edited by Lotte Hellinga, Alastair Duke, Jacob Harskamp and Theo Hermans, assisted by Elaine Paintin (HES & De Graaf Publishers, 2001), pp. 145-150.
• Paul Arblaster, ‘The Community of the Glorious Assumption: The English Benedictine Nuns of Brussels’, English Benedictine History, 25 (1999), pp. 54-77.
• Paul Arblaster, ‘The Archdukes and the Northern Counter-Reformation’, in Werner Thomas and Luc Duerloo (eds), Albert & Isabella, 1598–1621: Essays (Brepols, 1998), pp. 87-92.
• Paul Arblaster, ‘The Press Image of the Infanta Isabella’, in Werner Thomas and Luc Duerloo (eds), Albert & Isabella, 1598–1621: Essays (Brepols, 1998), pp. 335-341.
• Paul Arblaster, ‘The Infanta and the English Benedictine Nuns: Mary Percy’s Memories in 1633’, Recusant History, 23:4 (1997), pp. 508-527.

• Rolf Quaghebeur and Idalie Vandamme (eds), Mens, verhaal van een wonde, exhibition catalogue (Leuven, 2006). English abstracts.
• Erik Borgman, Laurens ten Kate and Bart Philipsen, ‘Desperate Affirmation: On the aporetic performativity of memoria and testimony, in the light of W. G. Sebald’s story “Max Ferber”: with a theological response’, Literature & Theology 19:3 (2005), pp. 200-220. (Partial: not including the ‘theological response’.)
• Geert Claassens, ‘Introduction: Torec’, in David F. Johnson and Geert M. Claassens (eds), Dutch Romances. Volume III. Five Interpolated Romances from the Lancelot Compilation (Arthurian Archives 10; Cambridge, 2003), pp. 38-44.
• Goran Proot and Johan Verberckmoes, ‘Japonica in the Jesuit Drama of the Southern Netherlands’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese Studies 5 (2002), pp. 27-47.
• Jean-François Gilmont, catalogue entries 62, 63, 78-81 in Tyndale’s Testament.
• Elisabeth Van der Elst, Puppets in Belgium (Mardaga: Sprimont, 1997).