One last chance to visit! Museum Plantin-Moretus closes temporarily from Monday, 3 August while we prepare a renewed permanent exhibition. Reopening on 5 December 2026. We hope to see you then! ✨ #earlymodern #rarebooks #bookhistory 📜💙📚
News in Antwerp 400 years ago: movements of troops and diplomats in Italy, the Ottoman Empire, Germany, the Netherlands; religious strife in Holland; and the newly wed Charlotte Stanley, née de La Trémoille (a granddaughter of William the Silent) on her way to England in the middle of a heatwave..
News in Antwerp 400 years ago: the Peasants' War in Austria, diplomatic moves in Italy, strange doings in the Baltic, and rumours of war from Hungary.
BREAKING: Hong Kong police raid 2 independent bookstores, arrest 5 for alleged sedition – local media reports 🔗 hongkongfp.com/2026/07/15/b...
News from Brussels 400 years ago: ambassadorial fireworks go awry.
News in Antwerp 400 years ago: response to the tax rebellion in Friesland, peasant revolts in Austria and Bohemia, troop movements in Germany.
News in Antwerp 400 years ago: outbreak of revolt in Upper Austria
News in Antwerp 400 years ago, including the political take-up of rumours about Buckingham in England, and troop movements in Germany and Italy.
CfP for a conference in November on "Human and Human-like Voices" (in English language, literature, translation and interpreting): www.uclouvain.be/en/research-...
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News in Antwerp 400 years ago: those in power in England resist being called to account by Parliament; expectation of good news about the Strait of Hormuz; breaking news of tax riots in Friesland; more on Wallenstein's victory at Dessau.
News in Antwerp 400 years ago includes a brief notice of George Eglisham's scandalous "Fore-Runner of Revenge", "seemingly printed at Frankfurt" (actually printed in Brussels as part of a disinformation campaign accompanying the 1625-1630 war with England).
Very exciting news. The movement of the Old English original from annotation to main text, where the Latin translation had been centre stage, scratches a Translation Studies itch about paratextual inversion going back 25 years. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
Lost copy of seventh-century poem in Old English discovered at Rome library
Dublin scholars find 1,200-year-old manuscript of Caedmon’s Hymn composed by Northumbrian cattle herder
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News in Antwerp 400 years ago: a nighttime cavalry encounter between Brabanders and the Dutch.
News in Antwerp 400 years ago: preparations for war and desire for peace.
News in Antwerp 400 years ago: a naval battle in the Strait of Hormuz.
News printed in Antwerp 400 years ago: wars, rumours of wars, and non-existent peace talks.
Haven't shared one of these here for a while. High hopes for a peace agreement.
Don Fadrique de Toledo's report on recapturing the Brazilian city of São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos from the Dutch, as published in Antwerp 400 years ago today.
News published in Antwerp 400 years ago: the emperor asking for money and supplies for the Hungarian frontier, imperial forces gearing up for the Danish phase of the Thirty Years' War, and a brief mention of the Duke of Savoy being forced onto the defensive by the Republic of Genoa.
Happy to have been involved in this, in however small a way. museumplantinmoretus.be/en/Womensbus...
Women’s business/Businesswomen | Museum Plantin-Moretus
The cliché goes that behind every successful man there is a strong woman. But in the Plantin-Moretus family, women most definitely stood alongside their husbands, and not behind them. From the 13th of...
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![NEWS OF THE SURRENDER OF BREDA: Last Saturday, 31 May 1625, those of Breda began to parley for a good agreement to surrender the town to his royal majesty, finding themselves in extreme need. At 9 in the morning on Saturday his excellency Count Henry of Bergh went towards the town with a large entourage of noblemen, with his trumpeters at the front, and arriving beneath [the walls of] the town, remained there quietly. At once the deputies of the town came out in a coach, and there they greeted one another and began discussions for an agreement, which lasted until 1 o’clock in the afternoon. Agreement was reached between the town and the battery, and once it was concluded all returned, leaving mutual hostages. Those within the town demanded many conditions, but not all were granted. At parting the gentlemen congratulated one another festively when taking their leave.
On Sunday, 1 June, the agreement was concluded on condition that those within should depart from the town on Wednesday, 4 June, with arms and baggage, and colours, with all their sick, and they would be provided with wagons for the purpose, so that on Wednesday the wagons were loaded, but as not all was ready the enemy left the town early in the morning on Thursday, 5 June, taking many sick with them, some said 700. Everything was running short in the town, they still had bread for a few days. The governor said that all the citizens who had brought gold and silver from which to strike coin would have the same made good by the States. Square silver coins were struck for two guilders, and some for one guilder the piece, and a copper, with the arms of the town, with the inscription ‘Breda obsessa, 1625’.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xzhze6vbawt6p77vqqtalnfg/bafkreiekpel3uz2sulnpkmgiqlkdcmfeftqjum34ofynbr62qvrrfjm7aa)
Tudor England and the Antwerp Book Trade (8-11 July) Registration open for a few more days: www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferenc...
400 years ago today, news broke in Antwerp that the surrender of Breda was being negotiated.
Leuven is looking for a #BookHistory collection expert and conservator. And I now REALLY wish I had made a move on the plans to get training and accreditation in library and archive work. Go and get my dreamjob and continuously make me superenvious:
Collectie-Expert/Conservator
Weet je veel van boekgeschiedenis en zou je graag iets met die kennis doen? Kom dan werken als collectie-expert/conservator in Bijzondere Collecties!
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If anybody knows somebody who would want to teach English skills to (mostly) French-speaking undergraduates in Brussels while carrying out research into some aspect of translation or interpreting: jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...
TIMB - Un mandat d'assistant·e (75%) - Traduction/Interprétation anglais langue étrangère (50048594)
TIMB - Un mandat d'assistant·e (75%) - Traduction/Interprétation anglais langue étrangère (50048594)
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Can't remember if I ever got round to sharing this link: www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferenc...
Call for Papers | Tudor England and the Antwerp Book Trade: From Tyndale to Plantin | University of Antwerp
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