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Renske Hoff @renskehoff.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Happy and proud to have been awarded a Veni-grant by NWO (the Dutch Research Council) for my project 'Songs of Conflict and Connection'! In this project, I will study the use and circulation of Middle Dutch psalms in the period between 1470-1566. You can read more here: www.nwo.nl/en/researchp...

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Renske Hoff @renskehoff.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This was so much fun! Such a brilliant conference and so many kind people. Thank you for the invitation, @rebpaf.bsky.social!

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Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

De tentoonstelling 15 𝘔𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪ë𝘯 𝘷𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘻𝘦𝘯𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴 belicht ook een bijzondere episode uit de geschiedenis van ’s-Hertogenbosch en Antwerpen. Na de verovering van Den Bosch in 1629 werden belangrijke religieuze kunstschatten uit de stad tijdelijk veiliggesteld in Antwerpen. ©Het Noordbrabants Museum

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Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

In de Antwerpse Sint-Pauluskerk hangt al vierhonderd jaar een schilderijencyclus waaraan enkele van de grootste kunstenaars van de zeventiende eeuw meewerkten, onder wie Rubens, Jordaens en Van Dyck. www.bd.nl/cultuur/het-...

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Het Noordbrabants Museum triomfeert met unieke Antwerpse schilderijencyclus

Vierhonderd jaar ging eroverheen. Voor het eerst zijn de originele 15 Mysteriën van de rozenkrans uit de Antwerpse Sint-Pauluskerk te zien in Het Noordbrabants Museum. Hoe uitzonderlijk is dat?

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Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Afgelopen voorjaar was de tentoonstelling 𝘒𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘯: 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯 𝘷𝘢𝘯 𝘷𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘵 te zien in 𝘏𝘦𝘵 𝘕𝘰𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮. Ik zeg bewust ‘was’, want inmiddels is de tentoonstelling alweer afgebouwd en zijn de bruiklenen grotendeels terug naar hun eigenaren. ©Omiana

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Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Mijn naam is Floris van Alebeek en deze week mag ik posten op @historicivertellen.bsky.social. Ik ben conservator geschiedenis bij 𝘏𝘦𝘵 𝘕𝘰𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮. In die rol doe ik doorlopend onderzoek naar de erfgoedcollectie van het museum en ben ik medeverantwoordelijk voor de... ©Manoah Salampessy

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Renske Hoff @renskehoff.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Hou je van oude handschriften, wil je historisch onderzoek doen of ben je gewoon gek op puzzelen? Met collega's van de UU en @hetutrechtsarchief.bsky.social organiseer ik deze workshop! Met korting voor studenten! Er is beperkt plek, dus schrijf je vlug in. hetutrechtsarchief.nl/ontdekken/ag...

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Paleografiedag: duik een dag in de wereld van de

paleografiedag paleografiecursus het utrechts archief universiteitsbibliotheek bijzondere collectie oude handschriften genealogie

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Renske Hoff @renskehoff.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Thank you for this lovely review, Sarah! For those of you who want to form their own opinion on my book, it's available in OA: doi.org/10.1163/9789...

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Involving Readers

"Involving Readers" published on 23 Sep 2024 by Brill.

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Renske Hoff @renskehoff.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

We are the pumping professors! We are Renske Hoff and Marijntje Zeijen. As assistant professors at Utrecht University and breastfeeding mothers, we explore how #breastfeeding friendly academia is. We share our experiences on our new Instagram page! www.instagram.com/pumpingprofe... Follow us there!

Two women sit on the edge of a fountain in the garden of an old church building. One is wearing a pink shirt, the other is wearing blue. The are both smiling.

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Prayticipate @prayticipate.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Our new website is live!! Hurrah! 🎉 we will share all upcoming COST action events, calls for papers for relevant events, and news about available grants and opportunities. Do share widely with any Prayer Studies scholars/ Historians of Religion who might be interested! prayticipate.eu

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PRAYTICIPATE – COST Action CA23143 – Participation through Prayer in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World

Know More Image Caption Half of a Prayer Bead with the Prayer of the Rosary, early 16th century, Netherlandish; Boxwood, silver; 3 × 0.6 cm, Sculpture-Miniature

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 A 200+ page research paper from the University of Warwick, led by Nataliya Kosmyna (et al) This was published a couple months ago but I've only just had the chance to read it. I highly encourage others to do the same but I wanted to condense some observations in a short 🧵

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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...

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Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I love finding little legible remnants in pulp paper boards :’) The persistence of typography

The pulp paper board of an old book, the letter a barely visible on a fragment

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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Hey #MedievalSky Hivemind! Hive me your minds! I'm looking for medieval people/manuscripts referring to compilations as a bouquet of flowers or the stars in the sky or w/e (like the Liber Floridus was compiled "so faithful honeybees may suck the sweetness of the celestial juice"). Any thoughts?

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Lieke Smits @elckerlieke.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The text says 'to the left foot' but the image depicts a right foot. Infinitely annoying.

Medieval manuscript with the rubric 'Nu spreect totten lufteren voet', followed by an inital O with the wounded right foot of Christ

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

CFP: @rebpaf.bsky.social’s “Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures” With keynote speakers @wynkenhimself.bsky.social @renskehoff.bsky.social and Aditi Nafde Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 23-25 June 2026 Deadline: 15 December 2025 All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/re-med...

Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures (REBPAF) is a Marie Curie Doctoral Training Network coordinated by the University of Galway, which focuses on the ways in which 15th- and 16th-century book producers (scribes, printers, entrepreneurs) negotiated the dynamic relations between the manuscript and the printed book and adapted to the evolving challenges of the market. It also explores the continuing relevance of these cultural and economic negotiations to the modern world.

The network will be hosting an international conference at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin from 23-25 June 2026. We invite papers or posters on late medieval and early modern book culture, broadly conceived.

Selection. What shapes a book producer’s choices in form or language? How do physical features reflect meaning or ideology? How do design and content choices reveal cultural values—and how are these reimagined in modern editions?
Value. What determines the cultural or monetary value of certain texts over others? How do producers, sellers, and collectors influence these shifting values? How can citation, adaptation, or performance reshape a book’s worth? What is the role of canonicity, and how has it changed? Why and how do we reevaluate texts over time?
Accessibility. How does changing a text’s medium—manuscript, print, or digital—affect its reading? How do material or linguistic changes interact with content? How does greater access reshape how readers interpret texts? What are the ethical issues around accessibility and cultural ownership? Can re-mediation serve as critique or recovery? How can we open historical texts to new audiences?
Survival. Why do some texts survive while others do not? How do past choices shape their transmission today? What meanings are tied to survival, loss, or rediscovery? How do texts respond to fragility? What roles do preservation or adaptation play in ensuring their future?

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REBPAF (Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures) @rebpaf.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

‼️Next year, the REBPAF Final Conference will be held in Dublin.‼️ We invite submissions of papers & posters; the deadline is 15 Dec 2025. We look forward to your contributions and to welcoming you to Ireland!📚 #REBPAF #MSCA #REBPAFConference #CfP #BookHistory [See images for details & how to apply.]

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I don't know, maybe it needs more alliteration? (from Chelmsford Chronicle, 1858)

Text from an ad from Chelmsford Chronicle - Friday 27 August 1858, page 4:

INTIMATION.
In a short interval will intensely interest its innumerable inspectors, in inviting bidding, at an inexpensive investment,
INFANT-INFLICTING
or, the
Innate-inundating—
Infirmity-inducting—
Inheritance-invading—
Indigence-involving—
Insolvency-increasing—
Injudicious—intemperate—incumbering—infringing—ingulphing—infectious—intoxicating—and intolerable
INFATUATION!
An intelligible, invigorating, and inimitable Inspiration,
In lucrative Verse,
Innocently and inoffensively intended, indeed decidedly and inconceivably, to inculcate instruction and invaluable information as to its
Intrusiveness—indesirablenss—inconsiderateness—inconveniences—inducements—insignificancy—insipidity—inferiority—indefensibility—inconsistency—incaution—inaptitude—incorrectness—inelegance—indecorum—indelicacy—indecency—incompatability—insincerity—inefficacy—injuriousness—injustice—inhumanity—and, indeed, its
INSINUATING, INSIDIOUS, and INIQUITOUS INSANITY!!!
Indited, in extenso, by that inexhaustible, intellectual, industrious, and inquisitive inquirer, inspector, and inveterate interposer
MALTHUS MERRYFELLOW.
Editor of 'Mirth and Mocking on Sinner-Stocking,' &c. &c.
To give birth to those
Who can but suffer many years, and die,
Methinks is merely propagating death,
And multiplying murder!—BYRON.

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Renske Hoff @renskehoff.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Reviewing lactation rooms: currently at @univie.ac.at. 7/10. 'Family room' with comfortable sofa. Door can be locked from the inside. No tap or fridge, but otherwise a nice space. #ParentInAcademia #Breastfeeding

Sofa and small table, on the side a cupboard with toys and decoration of a tree on the wall.

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Renske Hoff @renskehoff.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Pumping on my way to Vienna: reviewing 'lactation room' at @schiphol.bsky.social. Was directed to this 'baby care room'. Well. There's a changing table, but that doesn't really help with the pumping, does it... No chair. 0/10 #breastfeeding

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Fellow (book)historians, a question! I am working on a late 17th century French manuscript, but it seems to have a plate edge surrounding the image. How would that work? All 200+ images seem to have one? #bookhistory

white page with image of a green plant with written description in red and black below

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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Found the cutest little Holy Family in Utrecht Hs. 1 M 5, fol. 26r (15c) #MedievalSky utrechtuniversity.on.worldcat.org/oclc/965428966

Cute pastel-y Holy Family scene in a manuscript.

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Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Ik vind het belangrijk om ook met kinderen over wetenschap te spreken en te laten zien hoe uiteenlopend wetenschap is. Zo was ik pas betrokken bij het kinderwetenschapsfestival KennisKnetters. Geweldig om daar met kinderen over mijn onderzoek te praten! 1/3 www.tivolivredenburg.nl/agenda/99496...

Een vrouw met een bril, gestreept shirt en een gele sjerp om laat een groot boek zien aan twee kinderen. De kinderen zie je op de rug.

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Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Ik zou héél graag zo'n account maken, maar dan heb ik wel jullie input nodig! Dus als jullie voorbeelden hebben van teksten in de openbare ruimte die door gebruikers zijn aangepast, stuur ze me vooral! Kan door op deze post te reageren of via de mail (r.a.hoff@uu.nl).

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Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Ook mijn oma was gespecialiseerd in religie. Ze studeerde al in de jaren '50 theologie en werkte tot haar emiritaat als predikant en docent godsdienst. "Ik geloof verder niet dat het [predikantschap] om specifieke vrouwelijke of mannelijke eigenschappen gaat," stelt ze hier (1979). #vrouwinhetambt

Krantenartikel met de kop: 'Vrouw in het ambt: Beschibkaar zijn voor mensen'. Er zijn twee foto's: een van een vrouw met kort haar achter een bureau, de andere van dezelfde vrouw in toga, met witte bef.

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Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Dag allen! Deze week neem ik jullie mee in mijn werk! Mijn naam is Renske Hoff, universitair docent Middelnederlandse letterkunde aan de Universiteit Utrecht. Ik doe onderzoek naar religieuze boekgeschiedenis van de vijftiende en zestiende eeuw. 1/3

Heart-shaped hole in the paper of a early 16th-century devotional manuscript

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Hubert Slings @hubertslings.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

“Behandel vreemdelingen die bij jullie wonen als geboren Israëlieten. Heb hen lief als jezelf, want jullie zijn zelf vreemdelingen geweest in Egypte. Ik ben de HEER, jullie God.“ Leviticus 19:34 👌🏻

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Renske Hoff @renskehoff.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Deze week kun je me ook volgen op het wisselaccount @historicivertellen.bsky.social!

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Renske Hoff @renskehoff.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Reviewing lactation rooms at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, part 8: Vening Meineszgebouw 2. 9/10! Another room in the same building, much better! Tap, fridge, comfortable chair and door can be locked. Hurray! #ParentInAcademia #Breastfeeding

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Renske Hoff @renskehoff.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Reviewing lactation rooms at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, part 7: Vening Meineszgebouw. 6/10. Has a tap, fridge, basic chair. Can't be locked from the inside and also functions as storage room. What should I draw on the white board? #ParentInAcademia #Breastfeeding

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

There is a paper story included into this famous German painting of 1830s from Carl Spitzweg. You may know the common interpretation of the Poor Poet (German: Der arme Poet): Attention to the material misery of most artists and their work! A 🧵 for #skystorians, fans of #paperhistory, and more. 📚

A man (the poor poet) is lying in his bed, being surrounded by old books, and he is working in his bed (likely writing a new poem). The setting of the room, an attic room, is unpretentious.

The painting is from Carl Spitzweg, titled Der arme Poet, and was likely made around 1839. You may find the painting in the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Neue Pinakothek München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/de/artwork/9pL3KbKLeb (Zuletzt aktualisiert am 30.10.2024).

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Renske Hoff @renskehoff.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

My first-year students and I got to spend our morning in the special collections of Utrecht University library! ❤️ #medieval #manuscripts

Manuscript UL Utrecht, 17 A 22 (Middle Dutch with eleborate penwork)

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

#Bookhistory Miraeus lecture door Dr. @renskehoff.bsky.social 11/06, 18u30, Antwerpen. Boeken maken: de personalisatie van vroege drukken Deze lezing beschouwt de rol van lezers in het personaliseren en aanpassen van vroegmoderne boeken. Gratis, inschrijven via ttk.recreatex.be/Tickets/Deta...

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Recreatex - Detail ticket

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

#BookHistory friends! Work has begun on the LGBTQIA+ Book History bibliography, and the team is looking for you to share your citations! If you know of or have published something on LGBTQIA+ book history, submit it to this Google form! forms.gle/c1pkNBPbbyCF...

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SHARP LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography

Submit citations for the SHARP LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography! We are accepting citations for many different types of resources having to do with LGBTQIA+ book history. There are no restrictions o...

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Pope election day is the most fun day to be Catholic because we get to be like sports or political commentators to all our non-Catholic friends

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Anne Petterson @annepetterson.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Lijkt het je leuk om ook een keer te posten op @historicivertellen.bsky.social? Ik ben op zoek naar mensen die vanaf september een week willen vertellen over hun historisch onderzoek. (1/3) Repost = ❤️

Uit een post van Andrea Reyes: Een klein boekje over spirituele oefeningen: "Ramillete de diuinas flores escogidas en el delicioso Iardin de la Yglesia para recreo de el cristiano lector" van Bernardo de Sierra

Sietske Fransen kijkt naar vloeistof in een heel dun glazen buisje, door een replica Leeuwenhoekmicroscoop. Ik moet de microscoop heel dicht tegen mijn oog houden om überhaupt iets te kunnen.

Uit een post van Jeanine Dekker: item over Zeeuws Meisje in boek Goed Zeeuws Goed Bont

Uit een post van Mariëlle Hageman: een klein briefje met een versje, gelegen op een blauw omslag van inventarisnummer 9 uit het archief van Jan Boon en de Maatschappij ter Bevordering van Nijverheid. Op het briefje de tekst:
Tot welsijn van de burgerij
Van dese plaas juijst niet voor mij
Maar k heb er ook mijn voordeel van
Zoo wens ik dat dees oude man
Die nu van daag is heer traktant
Nog lange blijve in dit lant
En zo de heer een eijnde geeft
Dat gij dan in den hemel leeft
oud 80 Jaar
12 November 1802
W. Middelveld

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Lieke Smits @elckerlieke.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Out now: a special issue of OGE. Journal for the History of Spirituality in the Low Countries on the theme 'Religious Imagination in the Late Medieval Low Countries: Theories and Practices', which I co-edited together with Veerle Fraeters and Kees Schepers. poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...

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PEETERS ONLINE JOURNALS

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Renske Hoff @renskehoff.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

#newpublication I returned to the topic of my MA thesis and wrote an article about the role of imagination in the performance of Middle Dutch songs. Thanks to @elckerlieke.bsky.social and Veerle Fraeters for the invitation to contribute to their special issue! poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...

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Renske Hoff @renskehoff.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Reviewing a lactation room at Radboud University Nijmegen today: Elinor Ostromgebouw. 10/10! Nice room, clean, comfortable chair, tap, art on the walls... Well done, Nijmegen! #ParentInAcademia #Breastfeeding

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Renske Hoff @renskehoff.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

My book 'Involving Readers' is on the longlist for the REFORC Book Award! Curious to read it yourself? It's available in OA via the Brill website: brill.com/display/titl... #award #involvingreaders #bibles

Screenshot of the website of REFORC, announcing the candidates on the longlist for the REFORC Book Award 2025.

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Renske Hoff @renskehoff.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The deadline for paper proposals is 4 April! Are you interested in the interplay between language and religious practice? Start writing that abstract now and let's meet in Vienna this summer! #callforpapers

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Renske Hoff @renskehoff.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The Paleohub organises its first conference! On 10 April 2025, at Utrecht University Library (Science Park). You're most invited to join us to think about the impact of new (digital) methods and tools on the study of written artefacts. You can register here: forms.uu.nl/universiteit.... #paleography

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Renske Hoff @renskehoff.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Utrecht University staff and students: join our #strike! #woinactie

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Renske Hoff @renskehoff.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Is there someone here who's able to figure out what engraving this image of Luther is based upon? Found this one on the website Mary Evans Picture Library and it's from a 19th-century book (www.maryevans.com/search.php?p...). But I assume it follows an older engraving... #earlymodern #arthistory

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