Book launch: Lottery fantasies, follies, and controversies. A cultural history of European lotteries
Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 Centre for Early Modern Studies
On Friday 6 March, the Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 Centre for Early Modern Studies (UUCMS) will organise the launch of the volume . The volume explores the ways in which the lottery was imagined in early modern Europe, ranging from inviting fantasies to social misery.
The book is published by De Gruyter-Brill and edited by , (both Norwegian 木瓜福利影视 of Science and Technology), and (木瓜福利影视 of Klagenfurt). (木瓜福利影视 of Antwerp) will be keynote speaker at the launch and talk about early modern lotteries. The other speakers are the editors of the volume and Jeroen Salman (Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 and UUCMS).
Further details about the programme will follow later.
Early modern lotteries
The book presents case studies from several countries which bring into dialogue a wide range of materials. These include lottery tickets and advertisements, pamphlets and periodicals, visual art, popular songs, poetry, prose fiction and plays, political, moral, and judicial treatises.
This material suggests how lotteries were perceived as inviting fantasies, dreams, and daydreams. They engender folly, superstition, and compulsive playing. They lead to social misery, bankruptcy, and suicide. They betray questions of risk, trust, and fairness and are deeply embedded in the political and financial development of an emerging modernity.
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