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Historian | Asst Prof @uantwerpen.be | PhD UChicago | postdocs @cam.ac.uk | Early Modern Europe & the Mediterranean, the History of Scholarship, of the Book, and of the Jews | Hagenaar | FRHistS I come from merchants in textile, and deal in text and exile

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How deeply insightful (and consoling). Thank you for sharing, @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social

24.01.2026 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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22.01.2026 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

PB the elder died in 1569. The original (1565) is in the Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels, in a treasure chest of a room filled with Bruegels. But Vienna has a lovely copy!

22.01.2026 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Still Life with Chinese Lanterns, orange Dahlias, porcelain cup, Alle De Wercken by Jacob Cats, and a box of family secrets (2026). Thanks for sharing, Liesbeth!

22.01.2026 09:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This gem not far behind (spotted at the Cambridge University Press Bookshop)

21.01.2026 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The 11th-century manuscript itself -- Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut.66.1 -- has been digitised in IIIF by the BML here: tecabml.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll... and is also available through the invaluable @biblissima.bsky.social

20.01.2026 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Boccaccio lettore di Giuseppe Flavio. Le postille alle Antiquitates Iudaicae nel ms. Firenze, BML, Plut. 66.1 - Silvia Finazzi Il volume offre l’edizione integrale e commentata delle oltre 1000 annotazioni lasciate da Boccaccio, insieme a quattro piccoli disegni, in margine alle Antiquitates Iudaicae di Giuseppe Flavio nel ms...

Ancient Jewish History in Medieval Lombardy in Renaissance Florence

Boccaccio wrote > 1,000 marginalia in a MS of Josephus's Jewish Antiquities copied at Monte Cassino.

Silvia Finazzi (Roma Tre)'s critical edition of all of them, published by Olschki:
#bookhistory

www.olschki.it/libro/978882...

20.01.2026 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸ₯πŸ₯πŸ₯Hello academic blueskyers, we are hiring again. We are looking for a proactive, communicative, motivated post-doc πŸ¦Έβ€β™‚οΈπŸ¦Έβ€β™€οΈ for our ISF project Josephus Christianus (sinowloc.wixsite.com/josephus-chr...). Feel free to circulate!

19.01.2026 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

De auteur van dit artikel beweert dat het (inderdaad laakbare) lemma "Anti-Semietisme" in de Katholieke Encyclopaedie (1933-39) van de hand van Titus Brandsma is. Dat lemma is echter ondertekend "V. Houtte", i.e. de latere hoogleraar geschiedenis aan de KU Leuven, Jan Van Houtte (1913-2002).

16.01.2026 10:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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His younger brother, the puritan minister George Walker (c. 1581–1651), was no less a bibliophile. Both used motto's derived from Proverbs 10:9, playing on their surname. Here is a Hebrew Pentateuch (Venice: Bomberg press, 1548), from the library of Emmanuel College Cambridge, shelf mark 303.3.57.

16.01.2026 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ik herinner me nog goed zijn bezoek aan het Sorghvliet, waarvan hij zelf alumnus was, op uitnodiging van Hans Neervoort, onze leraar Nederlands. Een betoverende ontmoeting met een Γ¨chte schrijver, en een geschenk van een fijnzinnige docent aan zijn leerlingen.

15.01.2026 10:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What a trip β€” lucky students! Thanks for sharing, @homophonous.bsky.social

14.01.2026 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Β‘Por eso te estamos tan agradecidos por hacerlo, @perurealfonso.bsky.social !

13.01.2026 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please do, @christinekooi.bsky.social . Thanks!

11.01.2026 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, @stefanhanss.bsky.social ! Just looking for a more efficient way to stay on top of all your amazing work.

11.01.2026 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That just happens to be one of my favourite books, too, @letter-kunde.bsky.social ! Does your copy have any noteworthy provenance? The storyteller would like you to know that he hopes you enjoyed the tale.

11.01.2026 10:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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En in 1959 speelde Louis Armstrong in de Houtrusthallen. De bebrilde tiener met zwart haar in het publiek rond 0:15 is mijn vader, toen 16 jaar oud.

youtu.be/Nh223LfzeL0

10.01.2026 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks so much, @mihalyfy.bsky.social! Hoping for (re)connections like this is why I stepped into this lustrous lounge, however incomparable it may be to the myriad Chi-Town locales that still bear our invisible footsteps.

08.01.2026 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks so much, @joseph-m-davis.bsky.social
Whether in Prague or in Antwerp, our beloved sixteenth century remains inexhaustible, doesn't it?

08.01.2026 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And that from one of my ideal readers!
Gratias tibi plurimas, @annetteyreed.bsky.social

08.01.2026 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible – Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

By way of introduction: my book, The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (Toronto: PIMS 2025)
pims.ca/publication/...

Available in North America via @uoftpress.bsky.social, in Europe via @brepols.net, and in digital form by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

07.01.2026 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 4

First post on Bluesky...
Looking forward to connecting with friends and colleagues old and new, and even with non-historians.
Eens kijken of het in deze kroeg zo gezellig is als men zegt!

06.01.2026 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

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