Celine Camps

Haha, you might swallow your words once you've been to the US. Their portion sizes are no joke (and I'm saying this a bourgondiër with a big appetite).

ACADEMIC BOOK SALE

I am moving and want to move less books if at all possible...

Please get in touch if you are interested in the following titles (all prices include postage and I am open to offers)

I actually think it’s a good thing that there are people who devote their working lives to studying something that may only be of interest to a small number of people, who get on here with great excitement and say “I nerded the heck out of this for three years, I’m proud of me, read my article!”

Thank you for saying this! For some of us grad students working on unpopular topics this is incredible helpful to hear 🙂

Dürer's Melencolia I

The exhibition room in Dürer's house, with on the mid left center Dürer's Melencolia I

A staircase in Albrecht Dürer's house with a poster next to it for the "500 years Dürer and Geometry" celebration.

Albrecht Dürer's house, currently used as a museum devoted to the artist.

Seeing one of Dürer's best known works, Melencolia I, in person for the first time, in his *own* house, during the "500 Years Dürer and Geometry" makes my historian heart sing and weep at the same time ❤️ #HistSci #ArtHistory #HistSTM #EarlyModern 🗃️

So do I. But unfortunately it's an unpopular opinion 🤐

The “fake it till you make it” mentality.

Forget old school. It's team "Artisanal citation management" from now on—perfectly coined by @christinekooi.bsky.social!
Historians of craft and artisanal practice should practice what they preach!

Yes! As someone who works on artisans and craft knowledge, I so love this. Forget old school. Team artisanal citation management!

Amen.

And, while we're on the topic, team footnotes as well!

Exactly my system as well.

Team old-school! 🙋‍♀️

Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships: Expressions of interest can be submitted until 31 October 2025.

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

@brunomarconi.bsky.social if I remember correctly, you wrote your dissertation on craftsmen in Lisbon from the 13th to 15th centuries. I wonder if you have any recommendations here?

Detail of a woodcut integrated in a typeset text to display visual damage on a funeral stone.

Detail of a woodcut integrated in a typeset text to display visual damage on a funeral stone.

Detail of a woodcut integrated in a typeset text to display visual damage on a funeral stone.

Engraved title page with typeset text in the middle. The engraving displays allegorical depictions and a historican scene at the bottom. The typeset text includes the title and the imprint.

Ingenious use of woodcuts that overlap typeset text in this 1588 edition, visually reproducing old inscriptions found on funerary stones, altars & Capitoline Tables, carefully rendering letters but also the erosion, fractures & surface damage of their material supports.

#rarebooks #bookhistory

Yes, it's very tricky.

For the #SkyStorians working on #BookHistory 📚, there's a new list aiming to "disseminate announcements in book history, considering the book in a broad sense and for all historical periods and geographical areas." 🗃️

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Yes, good point!

Yes, unfortunately not every good scholar is a good teacher (and vice versa).

22. we all need to be talking more with our peers in francophone/germanophone etc academia, there is so much wasted potential because we're all staying in our regional silos. I actually think this is a more urgent issue than interdisciplinarity or whether we're using enough theory or w/e

Bernard Palissy and the Arts of the Earth A life of the sixteenth-century potter and scientist, with special attention to his natural philosophy.   Bernard Palissy, a French Renaissance artisan philosopher, saw intelligence and consciousness ...

🚨 📚 New book coming this August. Available for pre-order now!
This just went straight to the top of my to-read list:

"Bernard Palissy and the Arts of the Earth" — François Quiviger

#EarlyModern #HistSci #ArtHistory 🗃️
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Will do :)

ah, then I must have seen it somewhere else :)

Did you not show us something similar in the Wolfenbüttel Seminar? Or am I misremembering it?

🚨CfP "Doesn’t It Matter? Recovering Marginalized & Ephemeral Materials in Histories of #EarlyModern Art, Science, & Technology"
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I can't wait to see the line up (even if I cannot attend)! #HistSci #HistTech #ArtHistory #MaterialCulture 🗃️

Thank you for your suggestion. I know how to translate the German :) My question pertained to the sentence structure.

Great, thank you!

Haha, it helps to know that others also have to read this sentence more than once to make sense of it. Thanks for your reply :)
You've gotta love academic German....

As per usual with the German language ❤️