This is indeed one of the best things to do and I totally get it, a seminar sparked my interest in the Hypnerotomachia and I ended up writing my doctoral thesis on it

Thank you for listening to the podcast! I’m happy to help with any questions.

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On April 25th 12-2 I’ll be sharing my research on the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili in a public presentation at the Buffalo and Erie County Central Libra and they kindly made a reel about it! www.instagram.com/reel/DXNG7b-...

Less than a week to go until our virtual conference! Full programme here ceraejournal.com/programme/ #medievalsky #earlymodernsky #ancientsky

I do think this is true. I'm often guilty myself of underplaying what the work I do looks like or how much time and effort it takes. Research isn't 'just reading' or a question of sucking up summaries others have created. It's knowledge creation.

So let me go through the process with an example 1/

Buffalo Library on Instagram: "Among the many treasures of the Grosvenor Room is an exceptional early printed book combining a love story and an alchemical treatise. Join us on Sat., April 25 at 12 ... 27 likes, 0 comments - buffalolibrary on April 16, 2026: "Among the many treasures of the Grosvenor Room is an exceptional early printed book combining a love story and an alchemical treatise. Join ...

On April 25th 12-2 I’ll be sharing my research on the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili in a public presentation at the Buffalo and Erie County Central Libra and they kindly made a reel about it! www.instagram.com/reel/DXNG7b-...

A joyful event - the city of Mesa is opening a new library today! This is a hope-giving investment in literature and learning to celebrate. There is an accompanying farmers market too. Yeah for the humanities!

#SundayReads — @DemetraVg on Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, one of the strangest and most influential books of the quattrocento, at once a story of lost love and a fever dream of antiquity: publicdomainreview.org/essay/hypnerotomachia-po...

I wrote my PhD on the Hypnerotomachia I can relate to

A recipe for creating the elixir from Raymond Lull #alchemy #LindaHall

The skeletons are shown most frequently, so here is the nervous system from the 1453 first edition of Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica at the Linda Hall Library.

A poem by John Dee in the 1623 2nd edition of Robert Record’s “Ground of Arts”, a guide to arithmetic.

“One cannot at the same time affirm and negate”, taken from the chapter “On Rhetoric” in Martianus Capella’s “On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury” at the Linda Hall Library

Illuminated initial capital in the 1472 Jensen edition of Pliny’s Natural History at the Linda Hall Library

1515 first Aldine printed edition of Lucretius’ De rerum natura at the Linda Hall Library

I’m excited to start a fellowship at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, working on alchemy.

I’m glad to share that I will be traveling to Kansas City this week as one of the fellows of the Linda Hall Library.

www.lindahall.org/research/lin...

Happy Juneteenth! Do you know about pioneering Black Shakespearean Ira Aldridge? Born in NY in 1807, he acted with the African Grove Theatre, but with limited US opportunities, he moved abroad and found great success. This 1852 German playbill notes his starring role in Macbeth.

I just had my first visit to the Folger Shakespeare Library. The warm welcome and excellent research support were wonderful. Many thanks to the great team at the Library.

Is in DC for the Summer Teachers Institute of the American Bar Association.

This is an excellent paper.

'We teach our students to see the things that are
human, to appreciate the unexpected, and to see
the variation that breaks the pattern rather than
repeats it.'

The value of education is precisely opposite to the outputs of LLMs.

Letterpress marginal "No." with a hand drawn manicure below.

Talk to the hand

So it turns out that there is a Proto-Shrine to Our Lady of Walsingham (a major medieval and contemporary site of pilgrimage in the UK) at an Episcopal church in Sheboygan, WI!

At Green Acre in Maine for the conference of the Corinne True Center for Baha’i History. Tomorrow I’ll be presenting a paper on Medievalism in the Baha’i sacred Writings and historiography.

A fantastic time at the #RenaissanceSocietyofAmerica conference in Boston, presenting with Dr. James Russel! Already looking forward to next year's conference in San Francisco.
And a special thanks to @routledgehistory.bsky.social for exhibiting my book at the Conference Book Exhibition!

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (BLP Hardcover & Paperback) [Esoteric Book Review] YouTube video by Foolish Fish

Join me for a closer look at the new BLP editions (HC, PB) of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
youtu.be/v6bkU1Mg9BI

I am thrilled to say my book on the Hypnerotomachia has gone to paperback and is available in Waterstones and on Amazon:

Routledge: shorturl.at/LJL50

Amazon: shorturl.at/rN2F3

Waterstones: shorturl.at/iFOch

#Routledge #paperback #Hypnerotomachia #ItalianRenaissance #PhilosophicalDreamNarratives

Art Break: Cracking a Medieval Code | Getty Events Attempt to decode the unknown alphabet and mysterious drawings of this centuries-old enigmatic manuscript with our experts.

Join me, Beth Morrison, and 700 #Voynich fans for this Zoom conversation on June 13: www.getty.edu/calendar/art...

Thank you for listening to the episode! I send you all my encouragement for taking on reading the Hypnerotomachia. It is a marvelously rewarding text whose abundance always offers more to discover. If I can help with anything in your reading process please let me know.

I Dream of Ceræ: The Second Annual Conference, April 2025 Just over a fortnight ago, over the last weekend of April, the second annual Ceræ conference was conducted online with attendees and presenters from sixteen countries across eleven different timezones! Repeating our unique format from last year with a continuous single-stream over 32 hours, our presenters not only came from a multitude of institutions, but also represented the spectrum of career stage from distinguished professor to junior graduate student, and everyone in between.

Our conference ended 2 weeks ago, but registered participants can now view the recordings on our website. Read our review for more dreamy details.

Didn't have time to register and attend? You can still register with a reduced rate of $10 AUD until the end of June.

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