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📖 #REBPAF | MSCA Doctoral Network funded by the European Union | 13 PhD Researchers in Book History | Universities of Galway • Antwerp • Alicante • Zürich • Vienna • Bristol

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‼️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
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📚 Step into a living city of books with us & find out more about the story of the Frankfurt Book Fair, where the history of the book mingles with its future!
Read all about it in our new blog post by @melissabastian.bsky.social !

#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #BookFair #FBM25 #ResearchImpactEU #H2021
From Treasured Tomes to TikTok Awards: REBPAF at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair
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…
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November 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Very much looking forward to the Irish Renaissance Seminar here in Galway this Saturday, featuring a keynote by @fredschurink.bsky.social, a panel by our @rebpaf.bsky.social friends, and a surprise visit from @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social.

cc: @stemma.bsky.social, @uniofgalway.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Do you research early #bookhistory?
Come to our #REBPAFConference : 23-25 June 2026, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin!

📚 Key details:
• Deadline: 15 Dec 2025
[Abstract (max 300 words) + short CV]

• Themes: Selection,Value,Accessibility & Survival in book culture

Follow the link for more info!

#REBPAF
CFP: Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures
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…
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November 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
📯 Should you be in Zurich today, you have to listen to Luca Hollenborgs lecture about "Gardens and Metaphors.Nature in Early Middle Latin Poetry" with Alexander Häberlin! It is part of the ongoing lecture series "Natürlich Mittelalter", don't miss it! 🌿🌼
(Link for Info!)

#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory
Natürlich Mittelalter!
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November 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Singing for the sick? 🎶 Our latest post by @marikakyrannafox.bsky.social (Antwerp) dives into a fascinating Graduale Romanorum - the largest 15th c music print?! Discover this beautifully made book & find out how the plague influenced its contents & appearance! 🐀
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #Printing
Educational, Customisable, and Anti-Plague: Investigating the centuries-long development of a one-of-a-kind early printed music book
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…
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October 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Interested in #saints? 💫
Friday (31 Oct) Melania Marra (Alicante) will talk about “The Life of St Margaret in an Occitan Translation of the Legenda Aurea and its Relation with the Catalan Tradition” as part of a seminar by @ua.es & IIVF.
Come by if you’re in the area!

#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory
October 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
✨ We’re excited to share that part of our team will be at the #fbm25 !
📚 If you’re curious about #REBPAF, want to know more about what we do, or simply want to connect - feel free to reach out to arrange a meet up!

See you in Frankfurt!

#MSCA #FrankfurtBookFair #Networking #Publishing #BookHistory
October 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Did you know #REBPAF also has a very active Instagram? 📸✨

Follow @rebpaf.network for more visuals, updates & fun, interesting videos! 📚📽

#MSCA #BookHistory #ResearchImpactEU #PrintingHistory #ManuscriptHistory #Booksky
September 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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"Can I call you back? I'm stuck in an O at the moment."

St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 711; Abbreviatio Decreti "Quoniam egestas"; second half of the 12th century; p.18 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
September 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Although #REBPAF focuses primarily on handwritten & printed books, it’s always worthwhile to look beyond one's own horizon - you never know what connections you might find!
On a research trip to monasteries in Northern Germany, we found many vehicles of knowledge beyond the book!
#MSCA #BookHistory
September 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
📜 #REBPAF members @kaiyankele.bsky.social & Alena Minko (Bristol) were in Exeter for the first workshop of the GW4 project 'Medieval Studies Mobilising Digital Humanities', learning more about manuscripts and biocodicology!

Details: gw4.ac.uk/community/me...

#MSCA #BookHistory #DigitalHumanities
September 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM
📯🌿Today marks the start of 'Natürlich Mittelalter!',a new interdisciplinary lecture series organised by Prof.Dr. David Ganz & #REBPAF ’s Luca Hollenborg (Zurich),exploring the role of nature in the Middle Ages!
#MSCA #MedievalLiterature #Nature #BookHistory

Discover more: www.uzh.ch/de/events/rv...
Natürlich Mittelalter!
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September 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
🐉⚔ Rude and imperfect - or Tudor treasure?
@kaiyankele.bsky.social (Bristol) dives into Douce 261: a 16th-century handwritten remix of printed chivalric romances, with bold, woodcut-style images.
📖 Read the full story about knights and unimpressed librarians on the #REBPAF blog!

#MSCA #BookHistory
Knights, Dragons and an Angry Librarian: Douce 261 between Manuscript and Print
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…
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September 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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📘The September issue of PBSA is here! Members and subscribers keep an eye on your mailbox 📬 and don't forget you can access the electronic edition right now!

All BSA members get PBSA for free - Link in Bio to join today or login to access the digital edition.

https://bit.ly/bsa-membership-benefits
September 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
📯Read #REBPAF Sara D'Amico's (Alicante) article for #PBSA (@bibsocamer.bsky.social), spotlighting the work of Sarah de Laredo - cataloguer, translator, & researcher - whose significant contributions have been largely overlooked until now.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

#MSCA #BookHistory
September 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
✉️ We're back from our summer break with a new blogpost by Rosenn Nicolas (Galway),exploring a letter to Christopher Plantin that shows how 16th-century European book production depended on networks of publishers,printers, & intermediaries,shaped by commerce and censorship.
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory
Secrets of a 1569 letter: how books defied borders? The power of partnerships in the 16th century
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…
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August 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
📚 All basic information about our #REBPAFConference in Dublin next year can now also be found on our blog, where future updates will be posted as well.

✨️ Thank you all so much for your enthusiasm so far — we really appreciate it! 📖✨️

#REBPAF #MSCA #CfP #BookHistory
CFP: Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures
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…
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August 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
‼️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.]
July 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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CFP: The Mobility of People, Ideas and Objects between the German-speaking Lands and the World beyond Europe

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156453

Wolfenbüttel, 20.05.2026-22.05.2026, Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär (FNI) and Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (HAB);
Organizers: …
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July 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Two exceptional manuscripts from the collection of Museum Plantin-Moretus are officially recognized as Flemish Masterpieces! These rare and irreplaceable works now receive special protection from the Flemish government. 🎉 /1

#earlymodern #rarebooks #medievalmanuscript #bookhistory 💙📚📜
July 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
📯🪧 Have a look at #REBPAFs @marikakyrannafox.bsky.social (Antwerp) showing off her amazing poster, offering insight into her research about "Modelling Book Auctions" at the annual @adho-org.bsky.social / @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social conference in Lisbon! 📊📚📈
#DH2025 #MSCA #DigitalHumanities #Printing
July 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
😱‼️ A real Gutenberg, can you believe it?!
Have a look at this great new blog post by Nicky Voorneveld (Antwerp)!
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #Printing #Gutenberg #ResearchImpactEU
July 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
✒️🗡 Thank you, @imc-leeds.bsky.social!
See you again next year! ✨️🎉
#REBPAF #MSCA #IMC2025 #BookHistory #Printing
July 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
📯 Don’t miss our double feature @imc-leeds.bsky.social either: Kaila Yankelevich (Bristol) & Marika Fox (Antwerp) will talk about books at the turning point from manuscript to print & the way early books are valued today!
🔹️9 July, 4:30 PM, Maurice Keyworth Building: 1.03🔹️
#MSCA #IMC2025 #BookHistory
July 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
📯📚 Tomorrow @imc-leeds.bsky.social, Sara D'Amico (Alicante) will speak about the versatility of booksellers' catalogues - don't miss it if you're interested in early books!!
🔸️ 2:15 PM, Maurice Keyworth Building: 1.03 🔸️
#REBPAF #MSCA #IMC2025 #BookHistory #BookCollecting #Printing #EarlyBooks
July 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM