It is perhaps a little late in the game, but is there enough interest to pull together a panel of speakers on/using Books of Duchesses for #IMCLeeds2025?
Thrilled to let you all know that I'll be a presenter for the 2-day workshop on Medieval Women's Networks happening on Zoom Oct. 17-18! Come listen to me talk about @booksofduchesses.bsky.social@aboyarin.bsky.social@yvonneseale.bsky.social, and others!
Exciting news: Margaret of Austria's full inventory as edited by Margaret Debae is finally fully entered into BoD! booksofduchesses.com/owners/Marga... Now to chase down all of the other associated inventories 😅
Did you finish or examine a book history dissertation in 2022 or 2023 at any level (undergrad, masters, doctoral)? Please submit the citation info to the form below! The next SHARP bibliography will be the 2022-2023 Dissertation Bibliography! (Plz reskeet!) #BookHistoryforms.gle/XbTJNUTSy7Tp...
Use this form to submit citation information about book history theses and dissertations completed between 2022 and 2023 Guidelines Dissertations and theses about book history (interpreted broadly, if...
EBS Session 6: Lost MSS and Printed Books. Between fire (Cottonian Library, 1731), theft, and losses over time, one wonders about titles mentioned in wills and inventories, books lent and lost, ghost copies, fabricated citations w/ no correspondence to primary sources icms.confex.com/icms/2025/pa...
EBS Session 4: Women’s Books: Owners, Makers, Patrons can explore any aspect of women’s books: ownership, patronage, books written for or directed to women, annotations, ownership marks, heraldic insignia, evidence of reading, etc. icms.confex.com/icms/2025/pa...
EBS Session 1: Old Books, New Technologies explores uses of tech in eliciting information about MSS and books. Also envisioned as a sharing session with papers on useful repositories and other online resources scholars need to know about. To submit a proposal, go to: icms.confex.com/icms/2025/pa...
I'm not EBS's official person #onhere#cfp#Kzoo2025earlybooksociety.org
So, so close to finishing the entries from Debae's edition of Margaret's 1523 inventory (about 50 left!) AND that article got accepted and will come out late this year or early next. Appreciating the small joys!
Another week, another 40 or so additions to Margaret of Austria and Mary of Hungary's book collections on BoD! booksofduchesses.com