December 9 2021 – 5:15 pm; via Zoom
A virtual tour of the private press collections of the libraries of Merton, St John’s and Worcester Colleges. With the Librarians, Julia Walworth, Petra Hofmann and Mark Bainbridge.
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Looking at the Goostly Psalmes
Jane Eagan and Matthew Shaw Librarians and conservators see a lot of books. As such, they are often only passing acquaintances at best with many of them, and large numbers in their collection or care are positively strangers. It’s also unusual to know much at all about what researchers do with the books that they …
(30 Nov 2021) What Does Feminist Bibliography Do?
A panel discussio with Sarah Werner (independent scholar), Francesca Galligan (Bodleian Library) and Tiffany Stern (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham) When? – Tuesday, 30 November 2021, 5:15 p.m.Where? – Online via Zoom (for the link please contact sarah.cusk@lincoln.ox.ac.uk) All welcome!
(11 Nov 2021) Syon’s Abbesses, women’s leadership and book networks in fifteenth-centurry England
When? – Thursday, 11 November 2021 at 5:15 pm (BTS) Where? – T.S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College This event will also be streamed via ZOOM; for the link please contact sarah.cusk@lincoln.ox.ac.uk Syon Abbey is well known for its extensive libraries and its close relationships with London printers and late-medieval nobility. Julia King argues that the …
Reformation Pamphlets Launch
On 29 October 2021, there will be a festive in-person launch of the ‘Passional Christi und Antichristi’, edited by Edmund Wareham. In June, there was already a launch of the online edition, 500 years and three weeks after the first edition of the pamphlet came out in Wittenberg. The paper version, part of the Taylor …
Script vs print vs code: the information revolution in one afternoon
Event, 11 October 2021
Members of the Oxford Scribes and printers from the Bodleian Bibliographical Press race to produce a page of text. Settle the 500-year-old question – which is faster?
UNIQ+ Project: ‘Prety stocke for a poore boye to begin the world with all’
What does it mean to read and write? For the Tudor educationalist Richard Mulcaster, the answer can be summarised in a single word: everything. Reading and writing are far more than simple practical skills, and form for Mulcaster the vital building blocks of a good education. Acquiring them, though, embroils us in a kind of …
UNIQ+ Project: ‘The Pleasuant Playne and Pythye Pathewaye’
‘The Pleasuant Playne and Pythye Pathewaye : a digital edition’ is available to read now on the Taylor Editions website Self-help texts are hardly a novel concept in our modern world. A self-help text from the 16th century, however, is quite the exciting read! My first cursory glance at the riveting rhetoric within A Pleasaunt …
UNIQ+ Project: ‘Goostly psalmes and spirituall songes’
‘Goostly psalmes and spirituall songes: a digital edition’ is available to read now on the Taylor Editions website. I was quite at a loss when, towards the end of our first week on the History of the Book and Digital Humanities project, we were directed by our graduate mentors – Mary Newman and Sebastian Dows-Miller …
Wt’s yt thē?: A Brief Guide to Reading Early Printed English
Things are a little disconcerting when you open an early printed book for the first time: everything initially seems familiar, yet upon further inspection you realise that some things are not quite right. Alongside the characters that we glide over without much thought feature strange additions and conspicuous absences, many of which are incomprehensible if …