We're hiring in medieval! The Stephen Knight Lectureship in Medieval Literature is a new, philanthropically funded 5-year T&R position honouring our dear colleague Stephen and his exceptional contributions to medieval scholarship: jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91746...
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Misha Teramura, @matthewsteggle.bsky.socialtheconversation.com/in-1614-a-mo...
Only a handful of plays written by women in the early modern period have survived. But the accounts of Alice Mustian’s raunchy stage show shed light on a surprising playwright and impresario.
Registration is open for the 9th International Marlowe Society of America Conference, to be held in and around Deptford, UK from 9 to 12 July 2024! All presenters and auditors must be current members of the MSA to join. More info on our website: tinyurl.com/msaconferenc...
Today I learned that Peter Piper had a counterpart tongue twister for every letter in the alphabet… 🤯 www.gutenberg.org/files/25027/...
Really thrilled to see this article of ours published in *The Seventeenth Century*, and open-access too! Restoration Playbooks and Receivers’ Stamps: James Magnes, Richard Bentley, and ‘the Post-Office in Russel-street in Covent-Garden’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This article examines the surprisingly prevalent incidence of contemporary handstamps impressed upon the final leaf of Restoration playbooks. These are all circular and contain either individual le...
An enjoyable evening judging books by their covers with David Pearson at State Library Victoria. Pictured with a re-dedicated armorial binding from Elkanah Settle (see the little flap concealing the original dedicatee’s arms?)
#earlymodern Conference Klaxon! Marlowe Society of America has just announced its CFP for its 2024 conference in London, 9-12 July. GET YOUR MARLOWE ON.
Intermittent call out that I would love to hear if anyone comes across a book owned by 16th century Exeter physician Francis Bryna (de Brina). He very thoughtfully used a distinctive ownership inscription, and his books were dispersed from c. 1600. This is Bodleian Libraries, 4to i 1 Med.
