Biography
Nina Lamal studied early modern history at KU Leuven. In 2014, she received her PhD from KU Leuven and University of St Andrews for a thesis on Italian interest in the Revolt in the Netherlands (1566-1648). After her PhD, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Universal Short Title Catalogue (University of St Andrews) from 2015 to 2017. In 2017, she received an FWO postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Antwerp for a project on the enduring importance of handwritten newsletters in the seventeenth century. She is now working as a postdoctoral researcher at NL-Lab on the project Inventing Public Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe. At the Huygens Institute, she is responsible for publishing the correspondence of Christofforo Suriano, Venetian envoy to the Dutch Republic between 1616 and 1623.
Her research mainly focuses on the role of different media in early modern political culture. She is currently investigating why and how diplomats in the early modern period tried to influence foreign audiences in the Dutch Republic and German territories.
Publications
- ‘Communicating conflict: early modern soldiers as information-gatherers’, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 50:1 (2020), pp. 13-31. Special issue The Dynamics of Cultural Reception edited by Marie-Louise Coolahan.
- ‘A transnational newspaper venture. Publishing an Italian newspaper in Habsburg Vienna (1671-1700)’, Quaerendo. A Journal Devoted to Manuscripts and Printed Books, 49:3 (2019), pp. 228-254.
- ‘Commerce and good governance: the broadsheet ordinances in the Van der Meulen archive’, in A. Pettegree (ed.), Broadsheets. Single-sheet publishing in the first age of Print (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. 207-239.
- ‘Promoting the Catholic Cause on the Italian peninsula: printed avvisi on the Dutch Revolt and the French Wars of Religion (1562-1600)’, in J. Raymond, N. Moxham (eds.), News Networks in Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 675-694.
- ‘Translated and often printed in most languages of Europe’: movement and translation of Italian histories on the Dutch Revolt across Europe’, in S. Barker, M. Maclean (eds.), International Exchange in the European Book World (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 125-146.
Research projects
Publications
- contribution to journal (article)
- contribution to journal (review)
- contribution to edited volume
- working paper
- book (author)
- book (editor)
- conference participation
- public engagement
- non textual
- other contribution
2021
Lamal, N. & van Gelder, K. (2021). Addressing Audiences Abroad: Cultural and Public Diplomacy in seventeenth-century Europe. The Seventeenth Century, 36(3), 367-387. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2021.1926651
2020
Lamal, N. (2020). [Review of] Joop W. Koopmans, Early Modern Media and the News in Europe. Perspectives from the Dutch Angle. BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review. https://www.bmgn-lchr.nl/articles/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10831/
2024
Lamal, N. (2024). Oost-Friese prinses zoekt steun: Justina Sophia van Barby-Mühlingen aan Johan de Witt: 5/15 november 1660. In I. Huysman, & R. Peeters (Eds.), Vrouwen rondom Johan de Witt (pp. 132-139). Catullus.
2023
Helmers, H. & Lamal, N. (2023). Dutch diplomacy in the seventeenth century: An introduction. In Early Modern European Diplomacy: A Handbook (pp. 221-252). de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672008-012
2021
Lamal, N. Hofman, E. (Ed.), & Gijbels, J. (Ed.) (2021). Controverse over een kopje koffie. In Het diner in de Dinosaurus en andere verhalen uit de nieuwe cultuurgeschiedenis (pp. 180-184). Academic and Scientific Publishers.
Helmers, H. Lamal, N. & Cumby, J. (2021). Introduction: The Printing Press as an Agent of Power. In Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800) (Library of the Written Word; Vol. 92). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004448896_002
2023
Huysman, I. & Lamal, N. (2023). In de voetsporen van Diederik van Sonoy. https://stadhoudersvrouwen.wordpress.com/2023/07/30/in-de-voetsporen-van-diederik-van-sonoy/
2020
Lamal, N. (2020). Publieksdiplomatie en de nuntii III: De laatste zet. https://www.historici.nl/blogserie-vroegmoderne-publieksdiplomatie-publieksdiplomatie-en-de-nuntii-iii-de-laatste-zet/?type=bijdrage
2021
Lamal, N. & Warner, J. C. (Eds.) (2021). Christophe Plantin 1520-2020 : studies of the Officina Plantiniana at the quincentennial of Plantin's birth.
Lamal, N. Cumby, J. & Helmers, H. (Eds.) (2021). Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800). (Library of the Written Word ; Vol. 92). Brill. https://brill.com/view/title/59640?contents=toc-44457
2022
Annemieke Romein, Nina Lamal, Jarrik Van Der Biest (2022). Workshop Transkribus Lite. 23-11-2022.
2021
Nina Lamal (2021). Anglo-Dutch public confrontation in Livorno. 01-07-2021.
Nina Lamal (2021). Public Diplomacy at the Imperial Diets.. 15-04-2021. (Renaissance Society of America)
Nina Lamal (2021). Hidden interventions. French involvement in the publication of the first Italian newspapers (1639-1660). 10-03-2021. (Print and Power during the Early modern Era)
2020
Nina Lamal (2020). Verspreiden en verzamelen van handgeschreven nieuwsbrieven in de Lage Landen (1580-1621). 30-10-2020. (VNVNG2020: De schakels van de kennisketen)
2024
Helmer Helmers, Nina Lamal (2024). The Rise of the Newspaper in Early Modern Europe. 10-09-2024.
2023
Hendriksen, M. Cornips, L. Mak, G. Leemans, I. van Kalmthout, A. B. G. M. Huysman, I. Helmers, H. Lamal, N. & van den Hemel, E. (2023). Nederland is.... Digital or Visual Products https://open.spotify.com/show/4QWyI8cV206YDPbI4BTJGg
2024
Helmers, H. & Lamal, N. (2024, Oct 18). The Correspondence of Cristofforo Suriano. Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis. https://suriano.huygens.knaw.nl/