Melissa Bastian
@melissabastian.bsky.social
•Oddities, Peculiarities, Curiosities•
MSCA Doctoral Researcher @ University of Vienna
Part of the REBPAF project:
'Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures'
https://rebpaf.wordpress.com/about/
MSCA Doctoral Researcher @ University of Vienna
Part of the REBPAF project:
'Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures'
https://rebpaf.wordpress.com/about/
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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
[See images for details & how to apply.]
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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📣 Reminder: CFP Deadline Coming Up!
If you’re planning to apply for our #REBPAFConference, the deadline is December 15!
Don’t miss your chance to be part of this exciting conversation on early book studies!
Spread the word! 📚
Follow link for details.
#REBPAF #MSCA #bookhistory #printinghistory
If you’re planning to apply for our #REBPAFConference, the deadline is December 15!
Don’t miss your chance to be part of this exciting conversation on early book studies!
Spread the word! 📚
Follow link for details.
#REBPAF #MSCA #bookhistory #printinghistory
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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December 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
📣 Reminder: CFP Deadline Coming Up!
If you’re planning to apply for our #REBPAFConference, the deadline is December 15!
Don’t miss your chance to be part of this exciting conversation on early book studies!
Spread the word! 📚
Follow link for details.
#REBPAF #MSCA #bookhistory #printinghistory
If you’re planning to apply for our #REBPAFConference, the deadline is December 15!
Don’t miss your chance to be part of this exciting conversation on early book studies!
Spread the word! 📚
Follow link for details.
#REBPAF #MSCA #bookhistory #printinghistory
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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
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
📚 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
Read all about it in our new blog post by @melissabastian.bsky.social !
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #BookFair #FBM25 #ResearchImpactEU #H2021
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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
#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
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
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #Printing
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✨ 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
📚 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
✨ 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
📚 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
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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
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
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
On a research trip to monasteries in Northern Germany, we found many vehicles of knowledge beyond the book!
#MSCA #BookHistory
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📜 #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
Details: gw4.ac.uk/community/me...
#MSCA #BookHistory #DigitalHumanities
September 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM
📜 #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
Details: gw4.ac.uk/community/me...
#MSCA #BookHistory #DigitalHumanities
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🐉⚔ 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
@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
🐉⚔ 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
@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
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📯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
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
#MSCA #BookHistory
September 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
📯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
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
#MSCA #BookHistory
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✉️ 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
#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
✉️ 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
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory
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📚 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
✨️ 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…
rebpaf.wordpress.com
August 3, 2025 at 11:52 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
✨️ Thank you all so much for your enthusiasm so far — we really appreciate it! 📖✨️
#REBPAF #MSCA #CfP #BookHistory
‼️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.]
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 3:07 PM
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😱‼️ 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
Have a look at this great new blog post by Nicky Voorneveld (Antwerp)!
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #Printing #Gutenberg #ResearchImpactEU
Did you ever buy a real print by J. Gutenberg through sheer luck? We did! Well, sort of... Read more about this incredible adventure in a wonderful @rebpaf.bsky.social blog post by Nicky Voorneveld: rebpaf.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/e... Many thx to @pieterbeullens.bsky.social for his expertise! 📚📖🔍
Experimenting in the Book Trade: From the Late 15th Century to 2025
Nicky Voorneveld, Universtiy of Antwerp The project of my fellow Antwerp REBPAF’er Marika Fox has been looking at auctions, specifically at what determines the value of rare books at auctions. This…
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July 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
😱‼️ 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
Have a look at this great new blog post by Nicky Voorneveld (Antwerp)!
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #Printing #Gutenberg #ResearchImpactEU
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📯 Of course, we're also @imc-leeds.bsky.social!
Tomorrow at 7PM, Kaila Yankelevich (Bristol) joins the Medieval Animal Data Network (MAD) Roundtable on 'Wolves'. Drop by and learn new facts to impress your friends! 🐺📜
#REBPAF #MSCA #IMC2025 #BookHistory #ResearchImpactEU #Wolves
Tomorrow at 7PM, Kaila Yankelevich (Bristol) joins the Medieval Animal Data Network (MAD) Roundtable on 'Wolves'. Drop by and learn new facts to impress your friends! 🐺📜
#REBPAF #MSCA #IMC2025 #BookHistory #ResearchImpactEU #Wolves
July 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
📯 Of course, we're also @imc-leeds.bsky.social!
Tomorrow at 7PM, Kaila Yankelevich (Bristol) joins the Medieval Animal Data Network (MAD) Roundtable on 'Wolves'. Drop by and learn new facts to impress your friends! 🐺📜
#REBPAF #MSCA #IMC2025 #BookHistory #ResearchImpactEU #Wolves
Tomorrow at 7PM, Kaila Yankelevich (Bristol) joins the Medieval Animal Data Network (MAD) Roundtable on 'Wolves'. Drop by and learn new facts to impress your friends! 🐺📜
#REBPAF #MSCA #IMC2025 #BookHistory #ResearchImpactEU #Wolves
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💼📚 We're excited to be joining you next week!
Keep an eye out for a bunch of eager old book enthusiasts headed your way!
#RenSoc25 #EarlyModern #BookHistory #REBPAF #MSCA
Keep an eye out for a bunch of eager old book enthusiasts headed your way!
#RenSoc25 #EarlyModern #BookHistory #REBPAF #MSCA
Just over a week until all #EarlyModern ists descend upon Bristol!! Find out who’s joining us at #RenSoc25 and start those conversations ahead of our gathering in person:
go.bsky.app/DVyFCxt #SkyStorians
go.bsky.app/DVyFCxt #SkyStorians
June 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
💼📚 We're excited to be joining you next week!
Keep an eye out for a bunch of eager old book enthusiasts headed your way!
#RenSoc25 #EarlyModern #BookHistory #REBPAF #MSCA
Keep an eye out for a bunch of eager old book enthusiasts headed your way!
#RenSoc25 #EarlyModern #BookHistory #REBPAF #MSCA
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📯 Next week, Prof.Dr.em. Ursula Rautenberg, a member of our #REBPAF Scientific Consultative Board, will explore book-giving as a social practice—reflected in gift inscriptions—and its material and cultural significance at the University of Vienna. Drop by if you’re interested in #BookHistory!
#MSCA
#MSCA
June 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
📯 Next week, Prof.Dr.em. Ursula Rautenberg, a member of our #REBPAF Scientific Consultative Board, will explore book-giving as a social practice—reflected in gift inscriptions—and its material and cultural significance at the University of Vienna. Drop by if you’re interested in #BookHistory!
#MSCA
#MSCA
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📜🔍On the hunt for the origins of a printed text,a visit to the Bristol Common Press helped Laurie Hoeben (Zurich) understand a mysterious character found in several books published by Antoine Vérard.💡Read about this fun hands-on #REBPAF adventure in our latest blog post! #MSCA #BookHistory #Printing
A mysterious punctuation mark in Antoine Vérard’s editions? And how hands-on experience with a two-pull common press helped to understand its mystery.
Laurie Hoeben, University of Zurich For the last 1.5 years, I have been working on the editio princeps of Arthurian romances printed for the Parisian, 15th/16th- century éditeur-libraire Antoine Vé…
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June 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
📜🔍On the hunt for the origins of a printed text,a visit to the Bristol Common Press helped Laurie Hoeben (Zurich) understand a mysterious character found in several books published by Antoine Vérard.💡Read about this fun hands-on #REBPAF adventure in our latest blog post! #MSCA #BookHistory #Printing
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You can now access a beta version of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC).
A bibliography of about 500,000 records, the ESTC aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced before 1801 in the English-speaking world.
Explore the catalogue: datb.cerl.org/estc/
A bibliography of about 500,000 records, the ESTC aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced before 1801 in the English-speaking world.
Explore the catalogue: datb.cerl.org/estc/
May 29, 2025 at 7:32 AM
You can now access a beta version of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC).
A bibliography of about 500,000 records, the ESTC aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced before 1801 in the English-speaking world.
Explore the catalogue: datb.cerl.org/estc/
A bibliography of about 500,000 records, the ESTC aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced before 1801 in the English-speaking world.
Explore the catalogue: datb.cerl.org/estc/
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📯 Next week (June 4-5), our very own Laurie Hoeben (Zurich) will be presenting at the 🔹️Journées Arthuriennes 2025🔹️in Zurich!
For the programme & more information (including how to follow the event online), see: ias-sia-iag.org
#REBPAF #MSCA #InternationalArthurianSociety #IAS
For the programme & more information (including how to follow the event online), see: ias-sia-iag.org
#REBPAF #MSCA #InternationalArthurianSociety #IAS
May 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
📯 Next week (June 4-5), our very own Laurie Hoeben (Zurich) will be presenting at the 🔹️Journées Arthuriennes 2025🔹️in Zurich!
For the programme & more information (including how to follow the event online), see: ias-sia-iag.org
#REBPAF #MSCA #InternationalArthurianSociety #IAS
For the programme & more information (including how to follow the event online), see: ias-sia-iag.org
#REBPAF #MSCA #InternationalArthurianSociety #IAS
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A wearable piece of #BookHistory!
I stumbled upon an unusual payment by Balthasar III Moretus for "boeckenvellen" to make a "boecke leeren onderkleet" for his son Melchior moving into the St. Michael’s Abbey.
Never expected leather bindings to be recycled as clothing! #EarlyModern #RareBooks /1
I stumbled upon an unusual payment by Balthasar III Moretus for "boeckenvellen" to make a "boecke leeren onderkleet" for his son Melchior moving into the St. Michael’s Abbey.
Never expected leather bindings to be recycled as clothing! #EarlyModern #RareBooks /1
May 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
A wearable piece of #BookHistory!
I stumbled upon an unusual payment by Balthasar III Moretus for "boeckenvellen" to make a "boecke leeren onderkleet" for his son Melchior moving into the St. Michael’s Abbey.
Never expected leather bindings to be recycled as clothing! #EarlyModern #RareBooks /1
I stumbled upon an unusual payment by Balthasar III Moretus for "boeckenvellen" to make a "boecke leeren onderkleet" for his son Melchior moving into the St. Michael’s Abbey.
Never expected leather bindings to be recycled as clothing! #EarlyModern #RareBooks /1
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✒️📜 Just scribbles in the margins or useful insights into early modern university teaching? In our new blog post, Luca Hollenborg (Zurich) explores student-annotated lecture prints & what they can tell us about the relationship between handwritten notes & the printed word in academia. 📝
#MSCA #REBPAF
#MSCA #REBPAF
Printing for the Classroom: Student notes in Vadian’s 1510 ‘Hortulus’
Luca Hollenborg, University of Zurich With the emergence of universities in the High Middle Ages, the need for reliable texts to accommodate students also grew. Before the invention of printing, al…
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May 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
✒️📜 Just scribbles in the margins or useful insights into early modern university teaching? In our new blog post, Luca Hollenborg (Zurich) explores student-annotated lecture prints & what they can tell us about the relationship between handwritten notes & the printed word in academia. 📝
#MSCA #REBPAF
#MSCA #REBPAF
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🗓 What if you lived in the early modern period without apps or digital calendars but still needed to track important dates, the weather, and celestial events? You’d rely on an almanac! 🕰☁️🪐 Discover Ireland’s first printed copy from 1612 in our latest blog post by Ian Wong (Galway)!
William Farmer’s ‘His prognosticall almanacke’ (1612): A humble almanac and the expression of power
Ian Wong, University of Galway Humans have always needed to keep track of time. Today we have a wide range of tools available to us, from bullet journals to to-do-list apps; in the early modern per…
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May 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🗓 What if you lived in the early modern period without apps or digital calendars but still needed to track important dates, the weather, and celestial events? You’d rely on an almanac! 🕰☁️🪐 Discover Ireland’s first printed copy from 1612 in our latest blog post by Ian Wong (Galway)!
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🚀 REBPAF is now on Instagram!
Follow us 👉 @rebpaf.network for:
• 🎥 Exclusive videos
• 📸 Day-in-the-life snaps of the team
• 📄 Quick tips & updates on our latest projects
• 📚 And so much more!
🔗 Dive in and say hi!
Follow us 👉 @rebpaf.network for:
• 🎥 Exclusive videos
• 📸 Day-in-the-life snaps of the team
• 📄 Quick tips & updates on our latest projects
• 📚 And so much more!
🔗 Dive in and say hi!
May 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
🚀 REBPAF is now on Instagram!
Follow us 👉 @rebpaf.network for:
• 🎥 Exclusive videos
• 📸 Day-in-the-life snaps of the team
• 📄 Quick tips & updates on our latest projects
• 📚 And so much more!
🔗 Dive in and say hi!
Follow us 👉 @rebpaf.network for:
• 🎥 Exclusive videos
• 📸 Day-in-the-life snaps of the team
• 📄 Quick tips & updates on our latest projects
• 📚 And so much more!
🔗 Dive in and say hi!
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Over 110,000 Medieval Manuscripts May Have Been Copied by Women www.medievalists.net/2025/03/1100... #MedievalManuscript
Over 110,000 Medieval Manuscripts May Have Been Copied by Women - Medievalists.net
A new study reveals medieval women copied over 110,000 manuscripts—far more than once believed.
www.medievalists.net
May 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Over 110,000 Medieval Manuscripts May Have Been Copied by Women www.medievalists.net/2025/03/1100... #MedievalManuscript
Whatcha doin'?
My current favourite depiction of Luke with his slightly clingy ox 🐂 -from the Gospel Book of the amazing Theophanu,Abbess of Essen,created around 1050 (now in the Essen Cathedral Treasury).
Did you know that this symbol stands for strength,service,& sacrifice?
#Iconography #Theophanu
My current favourite depiction of Luke with his slightly clingy ox 🐂 -from the Gospel Book of the amazing Theophanu,Abbess of Essen,created around 1050 (now in the Essen Cathedral Treasury).
Did you know that this symbol stands for strength,service,& sacrifice?
#Iconography #Theophanu
May 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Whatcha doin'?
My current favourite depiction of Luke with his slightly clingy ox 🐂 -from the Gospel Book of the amazing Theophanu,Abbess of Essen,created around 1050 (now in the Essen Cathedral Treasury).
Did you know that this symbol stands for strength,service,& sacrifice?
#Iconography #Theophanu
My current favourite depiction of Luke with his slightly clingy ox 🐂 -from the Gospel Book of the amazing Theophanu,Abbess of Essen,created around 1050 (now in the Essen Cathedral Treasury).
Did you know that this symbol stands for strength,service,& sacrifice?
#Iconography #Theophanu