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Conversation about ballads in newsbooks – I wonder if any linguists who study these would have something to contribute
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.@earlymodernjohn where to find "best French and Italian"? Loire valley, later Paris. Florence and Siena. Avoid Genoa. Avoid Venice
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.@earlymodernjohn : "- the history of education is missing from the history of educational travel"
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Now up, the one and only @earlymodernjohn on language learning in early modern travel!
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Reminds me of a Pratchett quote on academic articles: "It wasn't for reading. It was for having written."
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Crawforth commenting on ephemerality of many books – who read elegies a year later? 100yrs later? Not v good monuments..
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Crawforth talking about "competitive mourning" – university elegies
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.@bspalmieri on Quakers: in 1660 the world didn't end - something worse happened: Charles II ascended to the throne.
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That. Was a plenary.
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Statement by early career scholars read by @ProfLisaJardine at #RSA15 business meeting, right now.
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Details like which bible translation was used by the James I and Philip III when they swore their oaths..
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Osborne's paper on the ceremonies involved in the ratification of the Anglo-Spanish Peace treaty of 1604 is super-interesting.
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Toby Osborne on cross-confessional trust and the Anglo-Spanish peace treaty of 1604-5.
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Houpt-Varner: Quakers not taking oaths = untrustworthy in eyes of society; Qs taking oaths = untrustwothy in eyes of other Quakers!
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Houpt-Varner: Quakers accused of all and sundry, from suspicion rising from their refusal to take oath of allegiance
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Lindsay Houpt-Varner on Quakers and oaths: one commented, “if you think about what you swear, it will hardly go down”
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In Confessional Conflict, Peace, and Stability in Early Modern Europe panel.
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Davis: Priests crossing the Atlantic note some sailors haven't confessed in 30yrs => ships are not God's country
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Davis: "comments about daily life on board are pushed to the margins of the texts"
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Daily life hard to tease out of texts.
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Elizabeth Davis: took at Least 45d to cross from Old to New Spain (16C). But conditions rarely Optimal.
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Jardine: linking commonplace-books and the marginalia and annotations in books, would tell us much about reading practices
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Good to hear Lisa Jardine saying the reader/user wants more (conveniently) linked data!
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Jardine: the archaeology of reading keeps you on track of reading practices
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Jardine: getting away from Harvey the man to talki about what and how marginalia communicate
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Hats off to CELL for recording scribbles and scratches of marginalia as searchable XML - a massive undertaking.
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Symonds: "we shouldn’t have to invent bespoke solutions to technical problems"
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Hear, hear!
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Symonds: "My paper today is dry and technical. Sorry. Not sorry."
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CELL session (on marginalia) starts with Who's on first base. As always.
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