Carlisle Yingst

a screenshot of an exhibit description. an image of the object is included below, with a tag that reads "part of the house in which Caxton printed his first book in England, 1471". "Caxton House Fragment (ca. 1471 [alleged]) MS Eng 1703. No source, no date. After transporting his press from Bruges, William Caxton produced the first book printed on English soil: an edition of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Without the press, it is hard to imagine humanism and the Reformation reaching England decades later. Yet, Caxton’s career (which saw the Tudors’ rise) exemplifies how new technologies ensured continuity as well as change. Though its authenticity is dubious, this souvenir (fig. 2, below) is further testament to the 14th and 15th centuries’ hold on “modern” literature and culture."

Bailey Sincox pulled this up a few years ago for a mini exhibit! not much extra info here, though a picture of it - harvardlibrarybulletin.org/illuminated-...

Take the time to do this folks. The proposed changes to ILR are shocking and cruel, which is made abundantly clear in the text of the public consultation linked below. Please lend your voice to try to mitigate the cruelty.

APPLICATION: Applicants should supply: 1) a cover letter that includes a statement about the candidate's teaching and research interests, experience relevant to the position, and a discussion of how the candidate proposes to develop as a teacher-scholar; 2) a teaching portfolio, inclusive of teaching philosophy, sample syllabi, and student evaluations for courses taught (if available); 3) a curriculum vitae; 4) transcripts (copies are acceptable for screening); 5) an article-length writing sample; and 6) three letters of recommendation that speak to the candidate's scholarship and teaching. In the cover letter, candidates are encouraged to highlight skills and experiences that demonstrate a commitment to promoting inclusive academic environments and engaging across differences.

Check out this job posted *three* days ago, with review of applications starting Feb. 9th. If you caught this on day 1, you would have about two weeks to do this AND get three people to write you a letter. I can't help but feel it is designed to weed people out preemptively. Also, no salary listed

(Queer Transmissions: English Manuscript, Italian
Print and a Discomforting History of the Book, Sonja Drimmer)

meanwhile, I was just reading this--which explores the genealogical mode in stemmatics and bibliography from a queer/trans perspective--and it reminded me of this thread, so I thought I'd come back and share this too :)
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Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.

The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...

They are executing unarmed people in the streets for trying to protect their neighbors with the full support of the federal government.

Oh, I kind of miss them

Trans Histories of the Medieval Book - Arc Humanities Press Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...

perhaps chapter 3 in JD Sargan's Trans Histories of the Medieval Book!: www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163... mainly focused on mansucript stemmatics, but i think more widely useful also!

Special Collections and Rare Books Cataloging Librarian The University of Kentucky Libraries is vital to fulfilling the goals of enhancing and expanding the university’s research enterprise, and we are looking for an experienced, collaborative, proactive, ...

Come work with me! We have really cool collections that are still growing! ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/614... #SpecialCollectionsJobs #RareBookCataloging

dear bluesky, i don't need to go live on twitch directly from bluesky, but i do need to be able to set my profile to private

I have a fantastic student who wrote a great paper on knitting patterns from a book/media history/history of documents point of view recently and wants to do more research... this is a bit outside my wheelhouse — friends, do any of you have readings you'd suggest?

it'll come back at the end of the novel, when Verney keeps coming across the same substances in Rome, though i'm trying not to leap ahead

A Chronology of Paper and Paper-making

(this from munsell's chronology of paper and papermaking: www.google.co.uk/books/editio...)

a long-preoccupying question of mine is, why does Shelley have the recovered prophecies very specifically written on "piles of leaves, fragments of bark, and a white filmy substance, resembling the inner part of the green hood which shelters the grain of the unripe Indian corn"?

new in: 1957 Riverside Emma, formerly owned by novelist and critic David Lodge (editor of Emma: A Casebook)

i bought the shirt for $1.00 on deep clearance at JC Penny's in like 2010, which adds to the remarkable sense of survival; perhaps the best value for dollar i have ever spent

i usually try to start on december 1st the previous year, so that by january 1st i know whether or not i want to continue or not

(woodworking by @emilystjams.bsky.social is very good)

Did you read a book by a transfemme in a language other than English this year?

Comment them on this post!

The Foreign Language category for the TFR Awards only has two votes total and I need more crowdsourcing.

haha, yes, that is a separate and critical first step!

i hope it ends up helping!!

its optional to lay aside the card with the task i just finished, and then shuffle it in later - sometimes you just don't want the "work on the footnotes" card 3 times in a row

idk if this is useful if you have functional executive function, but maybe it could be if you don't

trying to decide which of 25 loose ends to wrap up first sometimes just paralyses me, and i find this resolves that by taking deciding out of the equation

best writing method i've found for finishing a piece with a bunch of loose threads:

1. write unfinished tasks on index cards, one per card; 2. draw a random card, work on that task for 15 mins.; 3. discard the card if the task is done, shuffle it back in if its not; 4. draw another card and repeat

2024 Hennig Cohen Prize Award — The Melville Society The Hennig Cohen Prize for 2024 is awarded to Geoffrey R. Kirsch for his essay “Piercing the Corporate Whale: Agents, Principals, and the Personified Impersonal in Moby-Dick ,” published in Leviatha...

We are excited to announce the 2024 Hennig Cohen Prize winner: Geoffrey R. Kirsch, for his article “Piercing the Corporate Whale: Agents, Principals, and the Personified Impersonal in Moby-Dick,” published in Leviathan, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 55-68. www.melvillesociety.org/news/2024-he...

"These are not, primarily, stories about artificial intelligence. They are stories about institutions optimized for volume."

this is a very good piece

(chess-wise, you can find me on lichess as ceyoungest if so inclined)

a partially complete scarf (striped blue, green, yellow, orange, and darker orange) stretched out on the back of a couch; the end of the scarf is still attached to a knitting needle and working yarn (only about half complete)

tiny attempt at stranded colour knitting, three white shapes--kind of hearts--on a blue background, tails still visible

very long scarf-in-progress + have kind of figured out colour switching