📢 CALL FOR PAPERS KLAXON! 📢 Proposals for papers are invited on the subject of ‘Legal Use of Print in Early Modern Europe’ to be presented at the combined 19th USTC/St Andrews Book History & 3rd COMLAWEU conference in St Andrews Deadline: 1 December 2026 #CfP #bookhistory #twitterstorians #USTC27

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And last, but most certainly not least, its Jeff Cowton (Northumbria University) with ‘Education, Economy, and Engraving: Thomas Bewick's Educational Print in Commercial Context, 1767–1797’ #USTC26

The final session of the conference is on ‘Specialist Business Models’ and we start with Thomas Noriega (Harvard University), ‘To the University, By the University: Defining the Academic Printer in Seventeenth-Century Leiden’ #USTC26

And finally, its Ruth Martínez Alcorlo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) with ‘Editing Erasmus for Young Students in Mid-16th Century Valencia: the Grammaticus Francesc Joan Mas’ #USTC26

And finally, its Ruth Martínez Alcorlo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) with ‘Editing Erasmus for Young Students in Mid-16th Century Valencia: the Grammaticus Francesc Joan Mas’ #USTC26

Up next, its Gabrielle Hamelin (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) with ‘Teaching the Scriptures in Eighteenth-Century Italy: The Use and Reception of Abbé Claude Fleury’s Catechismo istorico (Venice, 1705)’ #USTC26

It’s the final day of our conference, and we start with a session on ‘Controversy and Censorship’. Our first paper is from Saba Alkuwari (University of St Andrews): ‘The efforts and impact of Catholic censorship in controlling the dissemination of Philipp Melanchthon’s educational books’ #USTC26

And for the last paper of the day, its Katarzyna Setkowicz-Szymanowicz (University of Wrocław), ‘Printing Devotion, Educating Clergy: D. Henrique’s Editorial Programme in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Évora’ #USTC26

For our final session of the day, on ‘Confessional Debates in Education’, we start with Gunilla Eschenbach (German Literature Archive Marbach/University of Stuttgart): ‘Rewriting the Catechism: Pietist Pedagogy and Child Agency around 1700’ #USTC26

Finally, its Jonathan Privett-Mendoza (University of York) with ‘Language and Power: A Critical Examination of the Spanish-Catholic Missionaries' Role in Shaping Filipino Grammars’ #USTC26

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After lunch, we have a session on ‘Vernacular Language Learning’, starting with Wojciech Kordyzon (University of Warsaw): ‘Protestants Learning German and Polish: The Printed Tools of Language Instruction in the Central European Borderlands, 1500–1700’ #USTC26

The second paper of this session is ‘Travelling Books for Learning Cyrillic (exemplars of early prints in Britain and Ireland)’ from Oleksandr Okhrimenko (University of Birmingham) #USTC26

After lunch, we have a session on ‘Vernacular Language Learning’, starting with Wojciech Kordyzon (University of Warsaw): ‘Protestants Learning German and Polish: The Printed Tools of Language Instruction in the Central European Borderlands, 1500–1700’ #USTC26

And the final paper of this session, from Sulthana Nasrin (Jawaharlal Nehru University/King’s College London), is ‘Learning to Read in Colonial Kerala: Notes while organising a transnational Literary Textbooks/Teaching Archive’ #USTC26

Following the coffee break, we’re back with another session on ‘Colonial and Missionary Print’. The first paper comes from Tiara Ulfah (University of Hamburg), ‘Printing Education in Colonial Singapore: The Making of Malay Vernacular Readers’ #USTC26

And last but not least, its Ciara Sheehan (University of Limerick) with ‘The Manuale Scholarium in print: pedagogical function, and the representation of the akademische Deposition in the late medieval university’ #USTC26

Up next, its Richard Kirwan with ‘The duties of friendship: print and reputation in the early modern university’ #USTC26

We kick off the third day of our Print and Education conference with a session on ‘University Print’. First up, it’s the brilliant Giovanni Petrocelli on ‘From lecture hall to printing press: Student mediation and the circulation of medical teaching at Sixteenth-Century Padua’ #USTC26

And last but not least, we have Geoffrey Day with ‘Thomas Dyche’s A Guide to the English Tongue: why have so few copies survived?’ #USTC26

Our last panel of the day is on ‘bestsellers’, and we begin with ‘A Forgotten Classic: The Curious Case of Corderius in the Early American Classroom’ from Theodore R. Delwiche (Heidelberg University) #USTC26

And finally, its Aivar Põldvee and Wendelin Sroka with ‘German- and Estonian-language rooster primers in the hand press era: knowledge creation on origins and developments over time and space’ #USTC26

Up next, its ‘Winds of change: Reading primers from the turn of the 18th to the 19th centuries in German-speaking Switzerland’ from Britta Juska-Bacher (Berne University of Teacher Education) #USTC26

We kick off with a paper from Charlotte Appel (Aarhus University): ‘Four printed books for children. Features and functions of primers, catechisms, gospel books, and the so-called ‘catechism explanations’ in early modern Denmark (c. 1530-1780)’ #USTC26

Following lunch, we have a panel on all things ‘Primers and Catechisms’ #USTC26

Now we have a paper from Simi Nath (University of Delhi) on ‘The History of Textbooks in Early Colonial India’ #USTC26

And following the coffee break, we now have a panel on ‘Colonial and Missionary Print’, starting with Natale Vacalebre (University of Alcalá) on ‘Teachers and Printers: Circulation and Production of Jesuit Schoolbooks between Rome and New Spain’ #USTC26

And last but not least, we have Graeme Kemp and Sandy Wilkinson with ‘Learning Through the Image: Visualisation and Pedagogy in Early Modern Print’ #USTC26

Next, we have a paper from Elisa Marazzi (Milan University) on ‘Grasping the world through image and colour. Illustration in primers and other literacy aids in a transnational perspective’ #USTC26