Daniel Bellingradt
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Using papers in early modern Europe. #paperhistory #bookhistory What do we see on this painting from around 1500? A thread.1/https://twitter.com/Teszelszky/status/1354431948685529096 To start with, this painting is aiming to shed light
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Schools in early modern Europe were social spaces of learning and teaching, and above all, paper was present. A thread for #paperhistory and #bookhistory. What you see is an imagined
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Robert Hooke's "Micrographia" of 1665 invented and fueled the myth of the existance of a paper eating "book-worm". According to the inventor, the worm was "silver-shining" and "eats holes through
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It is paper time, again.The painting is from A. M. Wirth made in the late nineteenth century, and is on offer at the moment: https://www.auktionshaus-stahl.de/de/artikel/99940-anna-maria-wirth-beim-antiquar What do we see, and
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Dear experts of #bookhistory and related fields:This tweet aims to connect us better and enlarge our own networks for the benefit of the individual researcher and general community alike. Let
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Early modern Europe was a paper age! Let's focus, once more, on the paper usages of a period that mastered so many communication flows on paper. Another thread for #paperhistory
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Fellow historians with interest in #mediahistory and #bookhistory. I would like to establish the hashtag #globalbookhistory for collecting and promoting studies that pay attention to non-Eurocentric, global, transregional views on
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Again, #earlymodern Europe was a paper age. Let's have a closer look into this allegorical painting of 1629, and discuss what can be seen. A thread for #paperhistory #bookhistory #communicationhistory
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