REBPAF workshop poster for training in contemporary publishing and Cuirt, the International Festival of Literature from April 22-26.
📯 We'll be in Galway this week for a 'Contemporary Publishing' workshop and to participate in the amazing Cúirt Festival of Literature! Don't hesitate to say hi!
#REBPAF #MSCA #Cúirt #Publishing #ResearchImpactEU
📜 Discover a stunning “perfected” copy of the 1509 Richard Cœur de Lion edition, where medieval legend meets early print culture. A fascinating glimpse into how history and romance intertwined in one iconic text. Read more in our latest blog post by Alena Minko (Bristol)!
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory
Job alert! This is a reminder that I'm looking for a team member to work on a book history project 📚 that explores the networks 🕸️ of Protestant book agents in Poland-Lithuania and Prussia! Details: konkursydlanauczycieli.uw.edu.pl/api/document... (EN version at p. 7). Send an application by 9.03!
📯 A spy who loved books - and a library that vanished.
On this International Women’s Day, read our latest blog post by Sara D'Amico (Alicante) about Theodora Minshall, whose fascinating story sits at the intersection of espionage and book history.
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #BookCollecting #Booksky
Thank you very much, @remcosleiderink.bsky.social !!
We will pass your observations on to Brenda!
📜 Explore Ovid’s Heroical Epistles with us - an early modern print whose doodles, torn pages, and pointed dedications reveal how seventeenth-century readers engaged with the poet.
Read more in our latest blog post by Brenda Luies (Galway).
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #OldBooks #Ovid #PrintingHistory
Collage of 8 pictures with impressions from REBPAFs Zurich meeting. The REBPAF logo can be seen in the middle.
Our big #REBPAF meeting in #Zurich with excellent student presentations, input on postdoctoral opportunities, workshops, and an excursion to the wonderful Abbey Library of #St.Gallen has come to an end.
A big, big thank you to all speakers and organisers!
#MSCA #Bookhistory #Booksky #Oldbooks
Immense thanks to our invited speaker for giving us such a rich overview of life in academic publishing!
Good morning, Zurich! What a pleasure to speak with PhD students and faculty from all over Europe from the @rebpaf.bsky.social doctoral network about academic publishing as career path.
💫 Many thanks to everyone who responded to the CfP for our #REBPAFConference !
We are delighted to have received so many fantastic submissions!
The committee will review each proposal and get back to you as soon as possible.
It promises to be an exciting event!!
#MSCA #BookHistory #Conference
📜🌊 Set sail into a rare Old French 'Navigatio Sancti Brendani' with us! This manuscript tells us about a medieval adventure with a philological twist – come aboard and read about it in our new blog post by Melania Marra (Alicante)!
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #Manuscript #ManuscriptStudies #OldBooks
📣 Reminder: CFP Deadline Coming Up!
If you’re planning to apply for our #REBPAFConference, the deadline is December 15!
Don’t miss your chance to be part of this exciting conversation on early book studies!
Spread the word! 📚
Follow link for details.
#REBPAF #MSCA #bookhistory #printinghistory
📚 Step into a living city of books with us & find out more about the story of the Frankfurt Book Fair, where the history of the book mingles with its future!
Read all about it in our new blog post by @melissabastian.bsky.social !
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #BookFair #FBM25 #ResearchImpactEU #H2021
We are very excited as well!
See you on Saturday!
Very much looking forward to the Irish Renaissance Seminar here in Galway this Saturday, featuring a keynote by @fredschurink.bsky.social, a panel by our @rebpaf.bsky.social friends, and a surprise visit from @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social.
cc: @stemma.bsky.social, @uniofgalway.bsky.social
Do you research early #bookhistory?
Come to our #REBPAFConference : 23-25 June 2026, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin!
📚 Key details:
• Deadline: 15 Dec 2025
[Abstract (max 300 words) + short CV]
• Themes: Selection,Value,Accessibility & Survival in book culture
Follow the link for more info!
#REBPAF
📯 Should you be in Zurich today, you have to listen to Luca Hollenborgs lecture about "Gardens and Metaphors.Nature in Early Middle Latin Poetry" with Alexander Häberlin! It is part of the ongoing lecture series "Natürlich Mittelalter", don't miss it! 🌿🌼
(Link for Info!)
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory
Singing for the sick? 🎶 Our latest post by @marikakyrannafox.bsky.social (Antwerp) dives into a fascinating Graduale Romanorum - the largest 15th c music print?! Discover this beautifully made book & find out how the plague influenced its contents & appearance! 🐀
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #Printing
Spanish poster advertising a seminar on hagiography organised by the University of Alicante and the IIVF with a focus on a talk by Melania Marra on Oct 31, 11.30 am in th Aula Magna, University of Alicante.
Interested in #saints? 💫
Friday (31 Oct) Melania Marra (Alicante) will talk about “The Life of St Margaret in an Occitan Translation of the Legenda Aurea and its Relation with the Catalan Tradition” as part of a seminar by @ua.es & IIVF.
Come by if you’re in the area!
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory
The REBPAF logo as well as the logo of the Frankfurt Book Fair with a full bookshelf as background.
✨ We’re excited to share that part of our team will be at the #fbm25 !
📚 If you’re curious about #REBPAF, want to know more about what we do, or simply want to connect - feel free to reach out to arrange a meet up!
See you in Frankfurt!
#MSCA #FrankfurtBookFair #Networking #Publishing #BookHistory
Did you know #REBPAF also has a very active Instagram? 📸✨
Follow @rebpaf.network for more visuals, updates & fun, interesting videos! 📚📽
#MSCA #BookHistory #ResearchImpactEU #PrintingHistory #ManuscriptHistory #Booksky
"Can I call you back? I'm stuck in an O at the moment."
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 711; Abbreviatio Decreti "Quoniam egestas"; second half of the 12th century; p.18 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
Although #REBPAF focuses primarily on handwritten & printed books, it’s always worthwhile to look beyond one's own horizon - you never know what connections you might find!
On a research trip to monasteries in Northern Germany, we found many vehicles of knowledge beyond the book!
#MSCA #BookHistory
📜 #REBPAF members @kaiyankele.bsky.social & Alena Minko (Bristol) were in Exeter for the first workshop of the GW4 project 'Medieval Studies Mobilising Digital Humanities', learning more about manuscripts and biocodicology!
Details: gw4.ac.uk/community/me...
#MSCA #BookHistory #DigitalHumanities
📯🌿Today marks the start of 'Natürlich Mittelalter!',a new interdisciplinary lecture series organised by Prof.Dr. David Ganz & #REBPAF ’s Luca Hollenborg (Zurich),exploring the role of nature in the Middle Ages!
#MSCA #MedievalLiterature #Nature #BookHistory
Discover more: www.uzh.ch/de/events/rv...
🐉⚔ Rude and imperfect - or Tudor treasure?
@kaiyankele.bsky.social (Bristol) dives into Douce 261: a 16th-century handwritten remix of printed chivalric romances, with bold, woodcut-style images.
📖 Read the full story about knights and unimpressed librarians on the #REBPAF blog!
#MSCA #BookHistory
Cover of the September 2025 issue of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, featuring a close-up image of a bound palm-leaf manuscript with text in a South Asian script, situated on a black field.
Black text on a lavender background. Partial table of contents for the September 2025 issue of PBSA, including three articles
📘The September issue of PBSA is here! Members and subscribers keep an eye on your mailbox 📬 and don't forget you can access the electronic edition right now!
All BSA members get PBSA for free - Link in Bio to join today or login to access the digital edition.
https://bit.ly/bsa-membership-benefits
📯Read #REBPAF Sara D'Amico's (Alicante) article for #PBSA (@bibsocamer.bsky.social), spotlighting the work of Sarah de Laredo - cataloguer, translator, & researcher - whose significant contributions have been largely overlooked until now.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
#MSCA #BookHistory
✉️ We're back from our summer break with a new blogpost by Rosenn Nicolas (Galway),exploring a letter to Christopher Plantin that shows how 16th-century European book production depended on networks of publishers,printers, & intermediaries,shaped by commerce and censorship.
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory
📚 All basic information about our #REBPAFConference in Dublin next year can now also be found on our blog, where future updates will be posted as well.
✨️ Thank you all so much for your enthusiasm so far — we really appreciate it! 📖✨️
#REBPAF #MSCA #CfP #BookHistory