Nina Lamal

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

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BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC NEW SERIES Book History for the Future SERIES EDITORS: Lisa Gitelman, New York University, USA Tom Mole, Durham University, UK Sarah Werner, Independent Researcher, USA Book History for the Future aims to define the cutting edge for a new generation of book historians, as book history enters a new chapter of its evolution. Books sit at a densely trafficked intersection of social relations, status negotiations, emotional investments, material possibilities, desires, aspirations, and dreams. They require an intellectual approach grounded in attention to physical artefacts and material conditions while also engaged in theoretical reflection, attentive to historical contexts while attuned to contemporary resonances. This series publishes books that eschew academic parochialism in favour of adventurous engagements with new theoretical developments, innovative methodologies, digital tools, and global contexts.

Exciting news, Bluesky! I’m editing a new book series for Bloomsbury with Tom Mole and Lisa Gitelman: Book History for the Future! Do you focus on material textual artifacts and innovative methodologies? We’re actively soliciting proposals, so give us a shout! www.bloomsbury.com/media/cecjzl...

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Call for papers for the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, taking place at the University of Exeter on 30-31 October. We are exploring early modern conflict in all its forms. We particularly seek to unpack the interactions between the more traditional aspects of conflict, such as the political, tactical and strategic, with the more human side of it, including sociocultural approaches that explore experiences, representations and impacts of violence. As such, we particularly welcome proposals that look beyond purely military history and break chronological, geographical and disciplinary boundaries. We welcome proposals for individual papers of up to 20 minutes, or full panels of three to four papers, on any aspect of conflict, war and violence in the early modern period. Speakers might consider, but are not limited to, the following themes: Physical, tactical, operational and strategic aspects of warfare. Martial identities, values and motivations. Notions of gender, race, class and religion. Remembering, (re)imagining and representing violence and/or conflict. The experience of violence, its impact and the everyday at war. Popular allegiance in early modern conflict. Maritime violence and naval warfare. The bureaucracy of conflict, finance and the law. Abstracts of up to 300 words, along with a biographical note, should be sent to earlymodernwar@gmail.com by Friday 5th September.

We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter.

Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️

After looking at some beautiful books in the newly opened museum of the Royal library in Brussels, we also enjoyed some beautiful pastries, post-conference #bookhistory

Next Thomas Wallnig introducing @pcpsce.bsky.social and the aim to experiment with bibliographical datasets for Central-Europe

Next very own @cerl-community.bsky.social Marian Lefferts on the need for comprehensive documentation for the different national databases #bibliography #bookhistory

Next is series of short presentations. Renaud Adam explains how archives (council of Troubles as a case) can help as sources for bibliographies #yayarchives

Heleen Wyffels on creating authority records for women printers in Short Title Catalogue Flanders #STCV25years #women #feministbibliography

Back at @cerl-community.bsky.social conference in beautiful Brussels (after a small hiccup this morning). In time for paper by Alyssa Steiner on Incunabula Short Title Catalogue #bookhistory

Next up is @lankian.bsky.social on the importance of Sammelbande in how we understand how texts were read and used. Crucially for this collaborative project is how to work with other projects to create an interconnected database #bookhistory

Christian Scheidegger makes a convincing case for a local retrospective bibliography, and why it needs to be made it available as a database online #bookhistory #digital

Last update by Vojtech Sicha, who shows database of EM Czech Book illustration as well as cooperation with projects such as @pcpsce.bsky.social

Marian Lefferts @cerl-community.bsky.social presented the volume Never Finished to Heleen Wyffels and Jan Pauwels #bibliography #bookhistory

Quick round of updates: Early Short Title Catalogue has moved to CERL, it is the beta version. They do not just want to restore but also improving the data. They call on research community for input on beta version #Bookhistory

I think that was the main take-away, making a plea for collaboratie projects between librarians, data scientists and historians. It was quite a rich talk with many examples

Tolonen concludes that the data does not need to be perfect (but useable) as it is a never-ending process! We need to think about our research questions, instead of aiming for perfection.

Next is Mikko Tolonen on using national retrospective bibliographies to build a researcher-based infrastructural framework

Hahaha, keep us posted!

After we have been given a taste of the very ambitious plans for a single portal to the German bibliographies, we move to the mapping pliegos project. biblioteca.cchs.csic.es/MappingPlieg...

Oh help! Now the pressure is on

Het is zeker geen letterlijk citaat, het is eerder hedendaagse interpretatie van kern van Willem's boodschap

Happy birthday to Short Title Catalogue Flanders! Heleen Wyffels opens the @cerl-community.bsky.social conference on mapping Knowledge at Royal Library in Brussels #25yearsSTCV

Ik val in dit gesprek. Het is sowieso een goed idee om best practices en strategie te bespreken. We doen dat ook met tijdschriften die bij @openjournalsnl.bsky.social zitten.

Wat een leuke foto! Ik vond erg jammer dat ik er uiteindelijk niet bij kon zijn

Check out this #CfP #historyofknowledge

📅 Morgen 👉 ‘Van marge naar middelpunt’: onderzoekers (waaronder collega @ninalamal.bsky.social) en erfgoedprofessionals over de studie naar vrouwen uit de periode tussen 1500-1800, van Amalia van Solms tot naamloze vrouwen uit archieven.
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Vroegmoderne vrouwen: verleden tijd? Allerminst!
Tijdens 'Van marge naar middelpunt' blikken onderzoekers (waaronder collega @ninalamal.bsky.social) en erfgoedprofessionals terug én vooruit op vrouwengeschiedenis in erfgoed & wetenschap.

📅 4 juni | 17:00 | SPUI25

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