Great news!! My special issue on Writing for Third Parties: Commercial Manuscript Production in the Late Middle Ages (Queeste, @amsterdamupress.bsky.social) is now available in open access.
Looking much forward to your reactions!
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‘XXXV quaternen gescreven houdende elc quaternen XVIc valt LVIM, elc duyst drie [?] stuvers’ [‘35 quires of text, each containing 1,600 tokens. Totals 56,000, at 3 [?] stivers for each thousand’]
Having a go with the calculations of the unsatisfied Boendale scribe, who never wishes to write again for such a small amount (‘Pro tali precio nunquam plus scribere volo’).
Can anyone read the penultimate word?
A warm invitation to submit proposals for Research Papers from early career scholars with projects on medieval sermons at any stage toward completion, from initial conception to completed studies.
Deadline CfP is 30 May 2025
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We hebben een aantrekkelijke vacature voor een doctoraatsstudent computationele letterkunde in ons team aan de @uantwerpen.be
Hou je van middeleeuwen, liederen en code? Zeker solliciteren!
Begeleiding met @remcosleiderink.bsky.social
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Heeft iemand een kopie van Pieter Winsemius, Het koningsvaandel: reis door het verleden van Friesland (Amsterdam: Balans, 2014)? Ik zoek naar de pagina waar voetnoot 94 op staat (in verband met Louw Broerszoon uit Loënga).
Wie had ooit gedacht dat ik werk van een oud-minister zou willen citeren? 🤔
First post ever on Bluesky... Seems like a great opportunity to announce the publication of a new article I wrote with Lidewij Nissen on 'Women and Political Agency in the Early Modern Low Countries' ☺️ Check it out! emlc-journal.org/article/view... @emlcjournal.bsky.social
Call for paper Boekhistorisch Forum 2025
CfP! Vakgroep @boekwetenschapuva.bsky.social van de @uvahumanities.bsky.social, Faculteit Letteren & Wijsbegeerte van de @uantwerpen.be en Onderzoeksgroep Nederlandse Literatuur van de KULeuven organiseren op 24 oktober het negende Boekhistorisch Forum! Meld je aan voor 15 juni #bookhistory
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Come and join us at this conference at the amazing Museum Plantin-Moretus (Antwerpen, 5-7 November 2025).
Submit your abstract before 31 March!
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Join us for the Summer School Books and Culture on The Religious Image @Ruusbroec Institute and @Museum Platin-Moretus in Antwerpen (30 June-5 July 2025). More information and apply: buff.ly/3QjN4EY
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This is going to be very interesting and great fun. I am honoured to be a member of the organizing team. Also a great opportunity to visit the spectacular Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerpen.
Applying is still possible until 31 March 2025!
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Geschiedenis aan het einde van de wereld: @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social reflecteert op de rol van historici, hoop en méér-dan-menselijke perspectieven in tijden van crisis.
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Gefeliciteerd Zanna!
Dat heb ik me ook afgevraagd...
ChatGPT is still learning when it comes to premodern Dutch ;-)
That would surprise me, given the relations with England/English (see the text).
I agree, it does not seem very common. I think I am looking for leads in the 16th/17th centuries?
I read "hindre faij". Especially the hindre seems a bit strange to me. But of course, a proper name can go into all kinds of directions.
Sunday question for palaeographers: is anyone able to figure out who lived at the Botermarkt (of an unspecified town)?
MS probably related to a female Dominican house in the Southern Low Countries
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I cherish the intense day-long conversations with excellent experts (Carolyn Muessig, @pabloacostag.bsky.social, Edward Sutcliffe & George Ferzoco) about the various ways in which women could preach and participate in the transmission of sermons.
More to come in the 2025 issue!
In 2023 Carolyn Muessig organised a workshop on Female Preaching in Premodern Europe in Calgary. It was one of the most fruitful and fun events in my career. Now the first fruits of that workshop are available in the new issue of Medieval Sermon Studies.
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✨A female illuminators work✨:
f. 84v : 'Alanus scripsit has horas et ejus uxor illuminavit eas.’
f. 84v: 'Alan wrote these hours and his wife illuminated them.'
I have been waiting for this manuscript to be scanned in colour for a very long time, so am super excited to see it now!
Dat is wel heel ernstige vorm van boetedoening, Lieke...
Dag Miet, dat zijn handschriften en oude drukken waarvan ik kan aantonen dat ze te verbinden zijn met vrouwen of een vrouwenklooster, als lezer/bezitter, auteur, kopiist, verluchter, drukker,...
Just inserted the 2500th book in my database on Women and the Book in the Low Countries (c. 1250-1600)😃
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Came to Leiden University Library, made a pop-up exhibit of medieval manuscripts. Next item: something cool.
(3) Two copies of same Middle Dutch text made by same scribe c1450 for different clients. One ordered copy on parchment, the other on paper (see alt text). Now reunited on same table.
Six years of Early Modern Female Book Ownership today! 72,500 views, 41,500 visitors, 221 posts by academics, librarians, book owners, and others with the support of libraries, private owners, and booksellers. And much more to come! https://buff.ly/2REqsPi #HerBook #EarlyModern
Now in the new issue of Medieval Sermon Studies -- the first outputs of our project on Female Preaching. For now online: doi.org/10.1080/1366.... Soon also in print!
Much thanks to Carolyn Muessig, @pabloacostag.bsky.social and Edward James for the fruitful conversations.
