Thrilled and honoured to receive a Starting Grant from @ERC_Research for my project *WidowsPrint*. The project will investigate how economic developments influenced the rights and the agency of widows in the German print industry, c. 1500-1700. More details soon! For now 🍾

Zwischen Handschriftlichkeit & Buchdruck - Wissenschaft & Literatur in der Inkunabelzeit. @saskia_limbach @uniGoettingen & unser Falk Eisermann diskutieren mit @Maximilian_Benz - im Rahmen des Kolloquiums 'Praktiken des Vergleichens' @sfb_comparing

We're delighted to present the first publication of the Sammelband 15-16 project. Edited by Amadine Bonesso, it's entitled 'Perdite e sopravvivenze del libro antico: il ruolo delle miscellanee'. It contains papers in English, Italian and French - see: https://t.co/uWtCa8cZww

A playful way of dating books: the chronogram - very popular in particular during the later Renaissance and throughout the Baroque era, especially in the Germanic world... ⬇️

The next exhibition at @britishlibrary will be Medieval Women: In Their Own Words (October 25th) & YES we will have a beautiful book to accompany it.

Not officially published yet, but you can already download the open access PDF of my book on the Brill website! 🥳 https://t.co/6FDMPgzD3w #inreadershands

Excited to open the Call for Papers for the 1st COMLAWEU Conference at @univofstandrews, to take place on 20-21 May 2025! The deadline for proposals is 31 October. 1/3

£1.5m funding boost for international research into medieval women at work

The Gutenberg Yearbook 2024 is out, a lot to learn about printing techniques in Asia and Europe, the persistence of black letters, incunabula, reading preferences in colonial settings of the 17th and 18th centuries and more

I am delighted to share the call for papers for September's @sammelband15_16 event in @UU_University Library. The theme is 'Books in new contexts' - the cfp is here: https://t.co/B3O5oYEeDm With many, many thanks to @peter_sjokvist_ who has made this possible!

Looking forward to the "Mobile Lives: Itinerant and Street Trades and the Informal Economy in Global Historical Perspective" conference in Trento 13-14 June:

Free to follow online - just register ⬇️

A mid-sixteenth century draft letter scribbled on a flyleaf that tells us about wanting to study in Paris... 'Rebuking a lazy student in Renaissance Paris' is my latest blogpost with a discovery from the library @Ville_Chaumont https://t.co/BXZLz4cK1i

Job: 1 Leitung (w/m/d) "Forschungsabteilung" (Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel)

!!#JOBCLAXON!! We are looking for a PhD student who wants to work on the ways in which cities spurred women's self-development in #earlymodern cities! More information (in Dutch)👇 https://t.co/wxX0Cz1AYO #genderhistory #historyofwomen #twitterstorians

Very excited to be offering this course again on archives and power. Come join me and @Maartje_Gelder in Rome 31 oct -11 nov! @KNIRome @HuizingaInstit https://t.co/qvhLjNTnq1

Even if it's not #caturday yet - here is a wonderful #earlymodern doodle of a cat in the margins of the infamous "Hexenhammer". #bookhistory #BookTwitter #CatsOfTwitter

My article on the stages of development of the printed book market in 15th- and 16th-century France can be freely accessed online here: https://t.co/1bYpGafFZs

📯#bookhistory alert We're happy to announce that our volume *Competition in the European Book Market: Prices and privileges* is out. Here is a little sneaky peek. It's #OpenAccess & you can download it here:  https://t.co/T3LGfHC4bI #economichistory

"Politics in the street: the materiality of urban public spaces in Renaissance Italy" | Urban History | Cambridge Core - https://t.co/BcvsyZ5DiS @HamburgHidden @HiddenValencia @HiddenTrento @HiddenDeventer @HiddenCitiesEU