Thank you all for submitting your proposals for our final conference. We have begun reviewing the proposals, and we hope to let you know the results in May https://t.co/V6cNvo2wRI #EMoBookTrade#bookhistory#twitterstorians @EUJH2020
For the moment, the conference in Milan @LaStatale is confirmed, but its status will depend on the general situation related to the Covid-19 crisis
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... or our PI @angelaNuovo, discussant @MPIWG for Ian Maclean's contribution on Sacrobosco at the Book Fairs, 1564-1624: The Pedagogical Marketplace @EUJH2020
To be naughty when you’re the grandson of a printer could have special consequences. #OnThisDay in 1587 Christophe Plantin punished the 11-year-old Christophe Beys. His grandson had to report his day in Latin, and then set up the report and print it on his grandfather’s presses.
Not every day you get Paul F. Grendler as a discussant... our own Andrea Ottone is presenting his contribution for the workshop on The Giunti’s Publishing and Distributing Network and Their Supply to the European Academic Market @EUJH2020
Our workshop on the printing press and the European Academic Milieu in #earlymodern Europe has started @MPIWG
Three days packed with observations on the publication of Sacrobosco's Sphaera in France, Germany, Italy, Poland & Spain
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@MPIWG The workshop is the result of a partnership between #EMoBookTrade and the De Sphaera project headed by Matteo Valleriani: https://t.co/RiIpomJ17i #earlymodern#bookhistory @EUJH2020
We’re @MPIWG today and tomorrow for the workshop The Printing-press and the European Academic Milieu: 1470-1650. Defining Modes of Interaction and Scientific Exchange in the World of Printed Words, organised by Matteo Valleriani and our own Andrea Ottone @EUJH2020
Privileges as commodities: The Antwerp printer Jan van Meurs claimed that he had bought the privilege for missals and breviaries from the bankrupt Jan van Keerberghen II at a public auction held on the Vrijdagmarkt sometime in the year 1633
An overview on the system of monetary account in #earlymodern Europe from our economic historian @ammaframma always proves to be enlightening! @EUJH2020
off to Oxford for the Seminar in the History of The Book 2020: Migration & Survival @bodleianlibs Centre for the Study of the Book. @angelaNuovo@ammaframma@RenEmMil1 (G. Proot is unfortunately unable to attend) will discuss The price of books in early modern Europe @EUJH2020
How do you identify a printed book that's lost its title page? Here, by using the offset on the flyleaf, flipping and enhancing the photo, then superposing the real title page to check the spacing... we can reveal that it's a 1716 edition of Virgil's works
Deux de ces raretés avaient été publiées chez Nicolas Buon, fils de l'éditeur de Ronsard et propriétaire de Guillaume Nyon, qui habitait la maison en face, rue du Mont Saint-Hilaire.