Melissa Bastian, Sara D’Amico, Kaila Yankelevich What happens to a project when it ends?A book can outlive its author; a manuscript survives its first readers; a printed text is reprinted, rebound,…

Melissa Bastian, University of Vienna At first glance, Georg Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia[i] looks more like a strange album of portraits and wonders than a medical textbook, more spectacle than sci…

Sara D’Amico, University of Alicante I believe there is nothing that fits International Women’s Day more than the celebration of an unsung heroine of British history. Women have consistently …

Keynotes: Sarah Werner, independent book historian; Renske Hoff, University of Utrecht; Aditi Nafde, Newcastle University Date & Location: 23-25 June 2026, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin Re-mediat…

Melissa Bastian, University of Vienna It is a cold and windy autumn day in a big city, but those inside the huge, modern glass and steel building are sheltered from the threat of rain. Narrow, seem…

Marika Fox, University of Antwerp During my recently completed REBPAF internship at Maggs Bros. Rare Books and Manuscripts, I had the opportunity to work with a lot of fascinating books— but none w…

Kaila Yankelevich, University of Bristol “On paper, with rude pictures, imperfect”. This is how the online catalogue of the Bodleian Library describes a sixteenth-century English manuscript in thei…

Rosenn Nicolas, University of Galway1 Figure 1: Introduction of the letter The Plantin Moretus Museum keeps an original letter exposing unusual facts about the people involved in the printing spher…

Keynotes: Sarah Werner, independent book historian; Renske Hoff, University of Utrecht; Aditi Nafde, Newcastle University Date & Location: 23-25 June 2026, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin Re-mediat…

Laurie Hoeben, University of Zurich For the last 1.5 years, I have been working on the editio princeps of Arthurian romances printed for the Parisian, 15th/16th- century éditeur-libraire Antoine Vé…

Luca Hollenborg, University of Zurich With the emergence of universities in the High Middle Ages, the need for reliable texts to accommodate students also grew. Before the invention of printing, al…

Ian Wong, University of Galway Humans have always needed to keep track of time. Today we have a wide range of tools available to us, from bullet journals to to-do-list apps; in the early modern per…

A new study reveals medieval women copied over 110,000 manuscripts—far more than once believed.