Looking forward to this upcoming conference at the Huntington,” Extra Extra! The Material History of the Visually Altered Book” huntington.org/extra-extra
Join scholars in the field as they discuss extra-illustration, a historical word and image practice in which readers altered their books by adding their own visual elements to them. A book is thus phy...
The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online www.openculture.com/2024/09/the-...
If you know nothing else about medieval European illuminated manuscripts, you surely know the Book of Kells. “One of Ireland’s greatest cultural treasures” comments Medievalists.net, “it is set apart ...
Hi everyone, I've made my first starter pack for Rare Books and Spec Coll folks. I am completely sure I've missed folks, so please speak up in a reply and I'll add you to the pack! follow on, friends! 📜 #bookhistorygo.bsky.app/4fvc2XS
Absolutely thrilled that Diane Jakacki and my edited volume, *What We Teach When We Teach DH*, has just launched in its open-access version on the Debates on DH website. dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/wha...
Exploring how digital humanities (DH) is taught and what that reveals about the field, this book highlights how DH can transform learning across a vast array of curricular structures, institutions, an...
RSA 2025 CFP RENAISSANCE LIBRARIES: THEN AND NOW Got a paper that explores how Renaissance Studies has been mediated by libraries? I'm organizing a set of panels with @tarallyons.bsky.socialwww.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
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David Pearson's English Bookbindings Class is back at RBS! I took the course in 2018, and it truly changed the trajectory of my research. Bindings are fast becoming a central part of book and reception history. rarebookschool.org/courses/bind...
Course Length: 30 hours Course Week: 21–26 July 2024 Format: in person, University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA Fee: $1,495 A primary aim of this course is to give participants a toolkit to iden...
Early modern historians: what are your go-to resources on the English courts and their records? I need a crash course before June.
Another Katherine Blount book 👀
Today on the blog: another post on the fascinating book owner Katherine Blount, and her copy of a scientific book by Stephen Hales, as we further expand our sense of Blount's networks and interests #HerBook #C18 #EarlyModern earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/s...
This is another installment in our series of blog posts Katherine Blount, who, as we have discovered, owned a formidable library. The more we look, the more we find. The search for Blount books starte...