Het boek is NU verkrijgbaar via je lokale boekhandel of via @walburgpers.bsky.social libris.nl/a/cecile-de-... @jonasroelens.bsky.social @nathanvankleij.bsky.social @claireweeda.bsky.social @bramcaers.bsky.social @rozanneversendaal.bsky.social @elckerlieke.bsky.social
Do you learn by doing? @ies-sas.bsky.social has a new summer school course that explores medieval manuscripts by making them. You’ll learn how inks and pigments were made and used and get to experiment for yourself! 📖📚🎨 @ies-sas.bsky.social book 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/london-rare-...
In @nrcnl.bsky.social : monniken en boeken in zeehondenhuid. Ze noemen het archeologie maar dit is boekwetenschap
Ik bevind me in goed gezelschap 😃👍🏻
Vanaf morgen in de boekhandel: Wereldsteden van de Lage Landen, met een stukje van mijn hand over Antwerpen als centrum van de boekdrukkunst in de zestiende eeuw.
Take your chance to contribute to this year's issue of @unileiden.bsky.social MA programme Book and Digital Media Studies house journal, 'TXT'. The board welcomes short academic contributions as well as creative work, see links below!
The most significant festive event of the year is almost upon us: the 🪶FEATHERS🪶conference abstract deadline of December 20th!
If you want to join a 3-day feast of early modern scribal culture & manuscript production, you have got a few days left: www.student.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
Alert: great opportunity if you are interested in doing a PhD around early book. Salaried (!) Marie Curie Doctoral Research position advertised by the U of Bristol within the exciting “Remediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures” project (@rebpaf.bsky.social).
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St. Amandus, Tristan, Ruusbroec, Wars of the Roses, the Golden Fleece!
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CFP: Scribes & Inky Fingerprints: Collaborative & Mediated Authorship in EM English Manuscripts | MEMOs #twitterstorians #earlymoderntwitter #earlymodernevents #medievaltwitter #medievalevents
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Books shown: BIBPED 387-388 (Educational treatise); 1106 F 36: 6 (on modern hairstyles); 1189 E 10 (cookbook)
For those interested in educational tips for 3-5 year olds: having naughty ones spend some time in a corner was a thing in 1782 too...
My book session this week @ubleiden.bsky.social for the MA Book and Digital Media Studies features books indicating the expanding audiences in the eighteenth century: cookbooks, educational manuals, gardening instructions, student spectators, ladies' magazines, and jokes on fancy haircuts
A wise lesson about life comes free of charge :D
My coffee house images are all from the Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum collection, freely available online: www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie
Play around with search terms such as 'koffiehuis', 'koffie', and you can adjust time filters.
The one shown on the slide is here: www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie...
Last week I organised a coffee house session discussing the book culture of the eighteenth century, with students chatting over bookish topics in small groups fuelling into a plenary discussion. All catered with letter cookies, as reference to early modern Low Countries (culinary) literacy
Wil je graag ervaring opdoen bij een wetenschappelijke tijdschrift? Wij zijn op zoek naar een redactie-assistent (+/- 4 uur per week). Meer informatie over taken en je profiel in onze vacaturetekst. #Skystorians #Spreadtheword
Huge shelves with books behind a glass wall
Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.
Yes but would have liked a comma after 'actor', because now I wonder: who is the Canadian actor that Keanu refers to?
"Richt in de steden van jouw rijk scholen op en laat de kinderen uit jouw land daar kennis opdoen. Als ze daarvoor te arm zijn, vul dan hun handen" schrijft Jacob van Maerlant in een tekst waarin Aristoteles de jonge Alexander de Grote les geeft over goed bestuur. Den Haag KB 76E5 #stopbezuinigingen
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Today I fly to Holland to give a public lecture on medieval advertisement sheets at @unileiden.bsky.social (no online option, sorry) and to study a specimen in the Royal Library. Excited!
www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2024/...
Introductions: I’m a book historian in love with medieval manuscripts. Sharing research updates, manuscript news, images, and random findings from digitized manuscripts. Occasional blogger. Left Twitter for Mastodon, but you #medievalsky folks are all here, so here it is! (Pic: Bod CanClassLat257)
Interesting book commissioned by Lowys Porquin, a merchant from Antwerp. It was published in Antwerp in 1563 and includes a bio of his family and advice for his 11 children. Royal Library Brussels #earlymodern #books
Ik kom tegenwoordig veel Leids materiaal tegen dat digitaal beschikbaar is, maar niet op jullie lijst staat. Op den duur is het tempo van digitalisering moeilijk bij te houden, vrees ik…
SB zu Berlin, Ms. germ. fol. 751 , 1300
Are we missing any Middle Dutch gems? Help us expand our list of digitized #MiddleDutch #manuscripts and prints from libraries worldwide! Check out what's already there and let us know what should be added: nl.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisou...
Welcome to all new followers and people coming over from the other side! I have made a first attempt to create a list/starter pack of Medieval Historians on this platform. By no means complete so please give me a sign if you think you also qualify as a medieval historian!
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Prepping for a show and tell on Christopher Plantin in the @unileiden.bsky.social MA programme ‘Book and Digital Media Studies’. All copies, lavish and plain, from the @ubleiden.bsky.social
