Vanaf morgen in de boekhandel: Wereldsteden van de Lage Landen, met een stukje van mijn hand over Antwerpen als centrum van de boekdrukkunst in de zestiende eeuw.

Take your chance to contribute to this year's issue of @unileiden.bsky.social MA programme Book and Digital Media Studies house journal, 'TXT'. The board welcomes short academic contributions as well as creative work, see links below!

For those interested in educational tips for 3-5 year olds: having naughty ones spend some time in a corner was a thing in 1782 too...

My book session this week @ubleiden.bsky.social for the MA Book and Digital Media Studies features books indicating the expanding audiences in the eighteenth century: cookbooks, educational manuals, gardening instructions, student spectators, ladies' magazines, and jokes on fancy haircuts

Last week I organised a coffee house session discussing the book culture of the eighteenth century, with students chatting over bookish topics in small groups fuelling into a plenary discussion. All catered with letter cookies, as reference to early modern Low Countries (culinary) literacy

Prepping for a show and tell on Christopher Plantin in the @unileiden.bsky.social MA programme ‘Book and Digital Media Studies’. All copies, lavish and plain, from the @ubleiden.bsky.social

Mooie dag om over te stappen! Ik deel en lees over middeleeuwen, middeleeuwse handschriften, oude boeken, verhalen van vroeger en nu.
Plaatjes uit de Blaeu-atlas van @ubleiden.bsky.social, met dank aan conservator Maarten Storms.