Job alert! This is a reminder that I'm looking for a team member to work on a book history project π that explores the networks πΈοΈ 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!
27.02.2026 13:47
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The bottom of a page of printed text, showing three hands (or printers' fists) pointing at each other.
The spiderman meme: three spidermen pointing at each other.
#EarlyModern meme! #BookHistory
07.10.2025 10:01
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Russia is not the sea
Imperial Russia saw the nation as the sea into which all the other Slavic cultures flowed. The idea persists today not only in Russia's attitude towards its neighbourhood, but also in the way eastern ...
Brilliant, thought-provoking essay by my colleague @uilleamblacker.bsky.social - as a russianist who fully accepts that I have contributed this problem, Iβd welcome the sort of institutional change Uilleam argues for here, and am trying to work towards that. www.eurozine.com/russia-is-no...
11.09.2025 10:48
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Stroll over Wittenberg πΆπΆββοΈ
14.07.2025 18:57
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Instruction on proofreading, ca 1808 (MPM Arch. 193, f. 97v)
How do you correct (liturgical) proofs when you have three proofreaders at your disposal?
1. The first or oldest proofreader reads the red proof and corrects the 2nd and 3rd proofs.
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#bookhistory
#earlymodern
#howto
#proofreading
#anno1808
28.01.2025 12:12
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It is a pleasure to have my modest contribution on early modern #KΓΆnigsberg in this exciting volume!
28.01.2025 10:59
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