Three years of #REBPAF blog articles, countless books, and one enduring question: what draws us to them? @ianlywong.bsky.social (Galway) reflects on readers, book makers, and the messy, human work of knowledge in our latest blog post. #MSCA #ResearchImpactEU #BookHistory #Booksky #EarlyBooks

Looking at books and loving them: reflections from three years of the REBPAF blog

Ian Wong, University of Galway How does one look at a book? We think we know what books look like: some kind of cover, into which we bind a stack of pages with words on them, either handwritten (in…

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Read our new blog post by @marikakyrannafox.bsky.social & Febe Thonissen (Antwerp). Follow the trail of an #EarlyPrintedBook across Europe & discover how fragments, provenance & hidden clues reveal the remarkable journey of a single copy -and why it's like tracing an early modern VPN! #REBPAF #MSCA

Undercover fragments and early modern VPNs: Tracking one early print’s journey across Europe

Marika Fox and Febe Thonissen, University of Antwerp Since I (Marika Fox) started work on my REBPAF project, which focuses on prices in the rare book trade, I have made it a habit to seek out antiq…

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Join #REBPAF members @kaiyankele.bsky.social & @marikakyrannafox.bsky.social at #IMCLeeds tomorrow! Explore the value of manuscript fragments in the antiquarian book trade and rethink "hybrid books" at the intersection of manuscript and print. Come along and join the discussion! Session 1540! #MSCA

Are you a postgraduate student, early career researcher, or educator working on #manuscripts or book history? Join us tomorrow at #IMCLeeds for Panel 1404, where members of #REBPAF will discuss the realities of researching medieval & early modern books during a PhD. #MSCA #ResearchImpactEU #Booksky

Excited to see so many members of #REBPAF at #IMC2026 this week! If you're interested in book history, manuscript & print cultures, and the many pasts and futures of the early book, come and say hello - we'd love to meet fellow book historians and medievalists!! #MSCA #ResearchImpactEU #BookHistory

This was so much fun! Such a brilliant conference and so many kind people. Thank you for the invitation, @rebpaf.bsky.social!

REBPAF (Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures)@rebpaf.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📖 Day2 of our #REBPAFConference opens with @renskehoff.bsky.social’s keynote on hybridity & the many makers of early books, followed by panels on preservation, publishing networks, devotional books, Dutch romance, textual plurality & natural knowledge. Plus a lunchtime visit to 'Ink & Innovation'!

And that’s a wrap on #REBPAF 2026. Huge thanks to the organisers, speakers & everyone who joined in. It was a few days full of great talks, conversations, new ideas and connections. Grateful to have been part of it and already looking forward to what’s next! #REBPAFConference #MSCA #ResearchImpactEU

📖 Day3 of the #REBPAFConference brings panels on religious reading communities, editorial choices, re/using illustrations, student print culture, the dissemination of books & images, and books as cultural heritage. We're closing with a keynote by Aditi Nafde on the role of the scribe after print.

📖 Day2 of our #REBPAFConference opens with @renskehoff.bsky.social’s keynote on hybridity & the many makers of early books, followed by panels on preservation, publishing networks, devotional books, Dutch romance, textual plurality & natural knowledge. Plus a lunchtime visit to 'Ink & Innovation'!

Three amazing presentations today by the @memsunikent.bsky.social crew Jemima Bennett, Anna-Nadine Pike and Kate McCaffrey for the 2026 @rebpaf.bsky.social ‘Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures’ conference in Dublin! 📖👏🎉

Starting off our first @rebpaf.bsky.social panel session is Sara D'Amico with "Exhibiting Value" appropriately asking why we are all here. #MSCA #REBPAF

📖 Day1 of the #REBPAFConference is underway at the Royal Irish Academy! Looking forward to @wynkenhimself.bsky.social's keynote, panels on rare books, fragments, manuscript-print relations, and ways of visualising & interacting with knowledge, plus an evening visit to the National Print Museum!

✈️📚 We’re in Dublin! #REBPAF 's concluding conference begins tonight with a wine reception at the beautiful @marshslibrary.bsky.social. A wonderful way to open three days of conversations on manuscript, print, and the many lives of early books. #MSCA #BookHistory #ResearchImpactEU #REBPAFConference

Gutenberg's Cradle" is a book about the gorgeous books in our collection published in the decades after the invention of printing. It has been nominated for the prestigious ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography. You can buy a copy of this beautiful book here: marshlibrary.ie/product/gute...

Sara D'Amico, Gutenberg’s Cradle. Incunables at Marsh’s Library (Dublin, 2024). - Marsh's Library

Gutenberg’s Cradle is a beautifully illustrated book about the 75 texts in Marsh's Library that were published across Europe in the half-century after the invention of printing with moveable type. A ...

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📜🪶 What can medieval books tell us about childhood? From doodles and scribbles to traces left by young readers and learners, this new post by @kaiyankele.bsky.social (Bristol) explores how historians uncover the often-overlooked presence of children in medieval manuscript culture. #REBPAF #MSCA

Discovering the Traces of Medieval Children

Kaila Yankelevich, University of Bristol If you enjoy buying second-hand books, chances are you came across a volume that has been doodled on by a child. Schematic human figures, dashes of colour o…

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📯The wait is over! The programme for the #REBPAFConference 2026 is here! Packed with sessions, speakers, and everything you need to plan your time with us. View and download it now: 🔗 rebpaf.wordpress.com/rebpaf-conference-2026/ #BookHistory #MSCA #Conference #ResearchImpactEU #H2021

👁👁 What do alien-looking portraits, fox tongues, and cataract surgery have in common? Read about Georg Bartisch's Ophthalmodouleia and what it tells us about early modern medicine and print in our latest blog post by @melissabastian.bsky.social (Vienna)! #REBPAF #MSCA #EarlyPrint #MedicalHistory

All Eyes on the Page: Visual Knowledge and Medical Authority in Early Modern Print

Melissa Bastian, University of Vienna At first glance, Georg Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia[i] looks more like a strange album of portraits and wonders than a medical textbook, more spectacle than sci…

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We're still buzzing after an incredible week in Galway at the #Cúirt International Festival of Literature! Huge thanks to the organizers & everyone who shared their words and made it all so memorable! Leaving inspired, a little sleep-deprived & full of ideas. Until next time, Galway💚 #REBPAF #MSCA

📯 We'll be in Galway this week for a 'Contemporary Publishing' workshop and to participate in the amazing Cúirt Festival of Literature! Don't hesitate to say hi! #REBPAF #MSCA #Cúirt #Publishing #ResearchImpactEU

📜 Discover a stunning “perfected” copy of the 1509 Richard Cœur de Lion edition, where medieval legend meets early print culture. A fascinating glimpse into how history and romance intertwined in one iconic text. Read more in our latest blog post by Alena Minko (Bristol)! #REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory

A Perfected Copy of the 1509 Edition of “Richard Coeur de Lion”

Alena Minko, University of Bristol Richard Coeur de Lion is a Middle English romance about King Richard the Lionheart and his glorious as well as horrifying deeds in the Holy Land during the Third …

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Job alert! This is a reminder that I'm looking for a team member to work on a book history project 📚 that explores the networks 🕸️ 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!

📯 A spy who loved books - and a library that vanished. On this International Women’s Day, read our latest blog post by Sara D'Amico (Alicante) about Theodora Minshall, whose fascinating story sits at the intersection of espionage and book history. #REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #BookCollecting #Booksky

The spy who loved to read: Theodora Minshall and her lost library

Sara D’Amico, University of Alicante I believe there is nothing that fits International Women’s Day more than the celebration of an unsung heroine of British history. Women have consistently …

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📜 Explore Ovid’s Heroical Epistles with us - an early modern print whose doodles, torn pages, and pointed dedications reveal how seventeenth-century readers engaged with the poet. Read more in our latest blog post by Brenda Luies (Galway). #REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #OldBooks #Ovid #PrintingHistory

Ovid’s Heroical Epistles: The Heroides in the Seventeenth Century

Brenda Luies, University of Galway Ovid’s Heroical Epistles (OHE) (Dublin, National Library of Ireland, J.87)1 is a small, sextodecimo (16mo) held in the National Library of Ireland’s Joly collecti…

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Our big #REBPAF meeting in #Zurich with excellent student presentations, input on postdoctoral opportunities, workshops, and an excursion to the wonderful Abbey Library of #St.Gallen has come to an end. A big, big thank you to all speakers and organisers! #MSCA #Bookhistory #Booksky #Oldbooks

Immense thanks to our invited speaker for giving us such a rich overview of life in academic publishing!

De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies@dgb-mem.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Good morning, Zurich! What a pleasure to speak with PhD students and faculty from all over Europe from the @rebpaf.bsky.social doctoral network about academic publishing as career path.

Good morning, Zurich! What a pleasure to speak with PhD students and faculty from all over Europe from the @rebpaf.bsky.social doctoral network about academic publishing as career path.

💫 Many thanks to everyone who responded to the CfP for our #REBPAFConference ! We are delighted to have received so many fantastic submissions! The committee will review each proposal and get back to you as soon as possible. It promises to be an exciting event!! #MSCA #BookHistory #Conference

📜🌊 Set sail into a rare Old French 'Navigatio Sancti Brendani' with us! This manuscript tells us about a medieval adventure with a philological twist – come aboard and read about it in our new blog post by Melania Marra (Alicante)! #REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #Manuscript #ManuscriptStudies #OldBooks

Sailing Through Seas and Languages: A Particular Old French Copy of the ‘Navigatio Sancti Brendani’

Melania Marra, University of Alicante Among the manuscripts preserved at Trinity College Library in Dublin, MS 951 is a modest yet remarkable codex, an example of a medieval text that travelled acr…

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📣 Reminder: CFP Deadline Coming Up! If you’re planning to apply for our #REBPAFConference, the deadline is December 15! Don’t miss your chance to be part of this exciting conversation on early book studies! Spread the word! 📚 Follow link for details. #REBPAF #MSCA #bookhistory #printinghistory

CFP: Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures

Keynotes: Sarah Werner, independent book historian; Renske Hoff, University of Utrecht; Aditi Nafde, Newcastle University Date & Location: 23-25 June 2026, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin Re-mediat…

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📚 Step into a living city of books with us & find out more about the story of the Frankfurt Book Fair, where the history of the book mingles with its future! Read all about it in our new blog post by @melissabastian.bsky.social ! #REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #BookFair #FBM25 #ResearchImpactEU #H2021

From Treasured Tomes to TikTok Awards: REBPAF at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair

Melissa Bastian, University of Vienna It is a cold and windy autumn day in a big city, but those inside the huge, modern glass and steel building are sheltered from the threat of rain. Narrow, seem…

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