Dr H.M.C.W. Blom (Helwi)

Researcher - Department of Modern Languages and Cultures
Researcher - Radboud Institute for Culture and History

Contact

helwi.blom@ru.nl

Visiting address

Erasmusplein 1
6525 HT NIJMEGEN

Postal address

Postbus 9103
6500 HD NIJMEGEN

Helwi Blom is a literary historian whose research focuses on early modern France. Her scholarly interests include popular print (the Bibliothèque bleue), library history, the Huguenot diaspora and reception studies.

Research theme

book-owners, libraries and trauma in France during and after the French Revolution

Research group

TEMPUS, SCARAB

Tags: reception studies, early modern literature, french studies, book history, library history, bibliography, Enlightenment studies, popular print, medievalism, romances of chivalry, Bibliothèque bleue, Huguenots

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Key publications

Blom, H.M.C.W. (2024). Le Profil du Prince. Tendances et évolutions dans la production imprimée de Claude Nourry d'après un nouveau recensement bibliographique. In H.M.C.W. Blom, M. Clément & F. Montorsi (Eds.), Du Calendrier des Bergers au Pantagruel. L'atelier Nourry à Lyon au début du XVIe siècle (Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 198) (pp. 19-56). Genève: Droz Full text
Blom, H.M.C.W., Hansen, A. & Jagersma, R. (2023). Goldmines or Minefields? Private Libraries and Their Documentation (1665–1830). In R. Jagersma, H.M.C.W. Blom, A.-M. Hansen & E. Chayes (Eds.), Private Libraries and their Documentation, 1665–1830. Studying and Interpreting Sources (Library of the Written Word, 112) (pp. 1-17). Leiden: Brill doi: 10.1163/9789004542969_002 Full text
Blom, H.M.C.W. (2023). Legendary Love. The Wide Appeal of Pierre de Provence et la belle Maguelonne in Early Modern Europe. In H.M.C.W. Blom, R. Schlusemann, A.K. Richter & K. Wierzbicka-Trwoga (Eds.), Top Ten Fictional Narratives in Early Modern Europe. Translation, Dissemination and Mediality (pp. 225-258). Berlin: De Gruyter doi: 10.1515/9783110764451-008 Full text
Blom, H.M.C.W. & Montorsi, F. (2022). Fragments d'éditions inconnues de Claude Nourry dans les archives du Valais (avec des notes sur Robert le Diable, s.d. [1525-1527]. Encomia, 43, 41-58. doi: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-13094-9.p.0041
Blom, H.M.C.W. (2021). Il s’est vendu depuis peu une assez bonne bibliotheque. The Republic of Letters and the sale catalogue of the library of ‘Mr Briot’ (1679). In A. van Weduwen & A. Pettegree (Eds.), Book Trade Catalogues in Early Modern Europe (pp. 361-395). Leiden: Brill doi: 10.1163/9789004422247_014 Full text
Blom, H.M.C.W. (2021). Le répertoire narratif non romanesque publié en Normandie. Annales de Normandie, 71 (2), 197-244. doi: 10.3917/annor.712.0197 Full text

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