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Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

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-...

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Lisa Kuitert @lisakuitert.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

In @nrcnl.bsky.social : monniken en boeken in zeehondenhuid. Ze noemen het archeologie maar dit is boekwetenschap

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Bram Caers @bramcaers.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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.

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Bram Caers @bramcaers.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

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!

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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

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...

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Scribes and Inky Fingerprints: Collaborative and Mediated Authorship in Early Modern English Manuscripts - Leiden University

This three-day international conference hosted at Leiden University by the ERC Consolidator-funded FEATHERS project aims to bring together researchers working on early modern scribal culture and manus...

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Erik Kwakkel @erikkwakkel.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

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). uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c...

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Bram Caers @bramcaers.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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

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Henning Hansen @henninghansen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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.

Huge shelves with books behind a glass wall

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Johan Oosterman @johanoosterman.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

"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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Erik Kwakkel @erikkwakkel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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)

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Vincenzo DM @vincenzodm.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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

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Dirk Schoenaers @dirkschoenaers.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

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...

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Mario Damen @mariodamen.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

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! go.bsky.app/UaK1DAa

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Bram Caers @bramcaers.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

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

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Please Sign, in solidarity with Dutch academics campaigning against the (enormous) budget cuts by the current populist government. chng.it/7ZthpygvYt

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Hilf Herman Van de Werfhorst, damit diese Petition weiter wächst! 🚀

Stop cuts on Dutch higher education!

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Bram Caers @bramcaers.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Mooie dag om over te stappen! Ik deel en lees over middeleeuwen, middeleeuwse handschriften, oude boeken, verhalen van vroeger en nu. Plaatjes uit de Blaeu-atlas van @ubleiden.bsky.social, met dank aan conservator Maarten Storms.

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