Posted in art, books, germany, sixteenth century, tagged ditzinger, early modern, engraving, history, neyffer, tubingen, university, wurttemberg on 15 June 2008 | No Comments »
Thinking of applying to university? Then come to the Duke of Württemberg’s new college at Tübingen, where you can play tennis, fight with swords, and all sorts of other gentlemanly pursuits…
The engravings above are taken from a book by Johann Christoph Neyffer about university life in Germany in the late sixteenth century, and were executed [...]
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Posted in MA, books, england, seventeenth century, sixteenth century, tagged ballads, books, broadsides, cheap print, culture, early modern, popular, popular culture, popular piety, print, printing, woodcuts on 3 March 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been posting far less than I would like recently, due to being completely overwhelmed at work at the moment. If I never have to write another strategy, delivery plan or risk register for the rest of my life, it will be too soon… But I am scraping together the time to fit in MA [...]
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Posted in books, england, sixteenth century, tagged andrew perne, bookporn, cambridge, libraries, library, perne, perne library, peterhouse on 23 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
Rachel over at A Historian’s Craft has a regular series of great posts on “bookporn”- in other words, special or wonderful libraries and book shops. Recent posts have focused on a number of Cambridge libraries, so I hope Rachel will forgive me for stealing her idea and posting about another Cambridge library. Perhaps a [...]
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Posted in books, eighteenth century, seventeenth century, sixteenth century, tagged author, book, books, bookseller, early modern, eighteenth century, guide, history, pamphlets, print, printing, publisher, seventeenth century, shipper, sixteenth century, tract, woodcut on 7 February 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve spent the past few weeks immersed in seventeenth-century pamphlets and as a result, have been reading a lot of background literature on printing, print culture, bibliography and the history of the book. Below are some scattered thoughts, based on what I’ve read, about different ways of approaching an early modern pamphlet. They will probably [...]
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There is a wonderful post about early modern mentions of zebras over at Early Modern Whale. It includes a scoop on the OED - finding a pamphlet that uses the word from 1598, where the OED only has the first mention of it as happening in 1600.
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