[The Berlaimont. Plurilingual manuals for merchants from the 16(th) to the 18          (th) centuries].
From the 16(th) 16 to the 18(th) century, a plurilingual manual attributed to Noël de Berlaimont, a schoolmaster in Anvers, met with unprecedented success. This article sheds light on the role and evolution of this type of manual by looking at its social and cultural context - the transformation of commercial and urban culture. This transformation triggered a revolution in the material shape of knowledge, and plurilingual textbooks were both symbols and engines of this transformation.
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