Just show a bunch of historians a badly drawn lion and a unicorn in a late 16th c. manuscript and we are the happiest bunch #CostAction @pcpsce.bsky.social

📚 We recently hosted a hybrid conceptual retreat in Vienna to discuss our planned compendium 'Print Culture and Public Spheres in Central Europe (1500-1800)'. Read more about this important milestone on our website: pcps-ce.eu/print-cultur...

In honour of #internationalmotherlanguageday , PCPSce member Dr Martina Kramarić from the Institute of Croatian Language explores the significance of efforts to preserve the rich diversity of Croatia's linguistic heritage. Read more on our website: pcps-ce.eu/preserving-v...

Carolin Gluchowski and Valentyna Bochkovska explore how women printers shaped knowledge infrastructures in early modern Europe on our #PCPSce blog. Read all about it on our blog:

Job Opportunity!

Hi hi historians, my wonderful colleagues in Leuven & Ghent are organising a workshop on histories of scholarly evaluation, in Leuven 27-29 September! Expenses covered. Call for papers here: www.arts.kuleuven.be/cultuurgesch...

Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended. They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision. Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Fellowship Opportunity! Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellowships Open to artists whose work would benefit from primary research related to the early modern world (ca. 1400-1800) and it's legacies. Applicants NOT required to hold a formal degree. www.folger.edu/research/the...

Mistakes were made in #earlymodern print shops. However, such #misprints, as they were called, rarely survived in our collections. Here you see a misprint from 1642 Germany. The image was printed upside down, and the proof-reader crossed the print to make sure this is not to be used. #bookhistory

Our new programme for this semester's seminar cycle on #earlymodern #history is now online! All seminars can be followed both online and in person. Full programme: isig.fbk.eu/en/events/ea... Join us! #skystorians

Mykhailo Tupytsia participated in a conference on the history of knowledge in Lund, Sweden, thanks to a grant from our #COSTAction #PCPSce. He presented a paper on book collections in the 18th-century Mukachevo Eparchy, and met with experts in the fields. Read more: pcps-ce.eu/yri-the-hist...

Thanks to an YRI Research Grant of our #COSTAction #PCPSce Stefaniia Demchuk was able to participate in the 8th International Conference on Watermarks in Digital Collections. Studying paper and #watermarks provides valuable insights into #PrintCulture. Read more: pcps-ce.eu/yri-watermar...

2 reminders from our #COSTAction #PCPSce on #PrintCulture and the public sphere in Central Europe: 1) 13 November we’ll host a Zotero Webinar – a link will be sent to all PCPSce members shortly beforehand! @costprogramme.bsky.social @costacademy.bsky.social #skystorians #EarlyModern #16thC #17thC

The second newsletter of our #COSTAction #PCPSce is now available! pcps-ce.eu/pcpsce-newsl... Follow us for more updates on early modern #PrintCulture and public spheres in Central Europe. @costprogramme.bsky.social #skystorians #EarlyModern #16thC #17thC

📖 A censured copy of Copernicus’s work allows to understand more about scientific revolution, censure, and tensions between science and the Church. Read all about Robert Tomczak's Short-Term Scientific Mission at the Library of the Poznań Society of Friends of Learning: pcps-ce.eu/yri-censored...

Ivana Čapeta Rakić carried out an STSM at the University of Padua, where she looked into the iconography of the Rosary in printed devotional books. Read all about her visits to multiple libraries and her collaboration with colleagues and specialists: pcps-ce.eu/yri-tracing-...

Women’s Voices in #PCPSce – earlier this year we launched a survey for all #women members of our #COSTAction. We gathered input on how they perceive their fields, experience their professional trajectories, and envision academic life for the next generation. Read more: www.pcps-ce.eu/womens-voice...

Brown University - Early Modern European History: memorients.com/news/brown-u...

Loudly tooting this CFP, please retweet: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Join us for this semester's seminars on #earlymodern history, hosted by the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento! With Louise Bonvalet, Robert Kendrick, Antonio Chemotti, Umberto Cecchinato, Laura Righi, @amandamadden.bsky.social, and @massimorospocher.bsky.social #skystorians

🔎 Find out what happened during our Young Researcher and Innovators' Summer School in Cluj-Napoca earlier this summer! 🏰 🕶️ Watch our slide show and read the report written by YRIs Livia-Ioana Potop & Ștefania-Maria Ghisa here: www.pcps-ce.eu/conference-r...

👋 Calling all PCPSce COST Action members and print culture historians! 👋 Agents of Censorship and the Circulation of Printed Material in Central Europe (1500–1800) International Conference | University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski” | 19–20 May 2026 CfPs: www.pcps-ce.eu/events/sprin...

📢CFP📢 AI and Artworks, Vienna, April 16–17, 2026 The workshop “AI and Artworks: Object Detection, Image Classification and Iconographic Analysis” will explore how AI is transforming the study of drawn, painted, and printed works. Click here to find out more: www.pcps-ce.eu/cfp-ai-and-a...

We've had a brilliant start to our PCPSce YRI Summer School in the beautiful city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania! Our first day consisted of some fascinating talks by experts in book history, presentations of ongoing research projects and a delightful welcome reception at Babes-Bolyai University.

📢Reminder: submit your dataset for the Vienna Hackathon, organised by #COSTAction #PCPSce! Deadline CFA: 31 July. This 3-day event will be held 10-12 December, exploring new ways of working with historical datasets. Info: www.pcps-ce.eu/reminder-sub... #PrintCulture @costprogramme.bsky.social

@ponderado.bsky.social carried out a STSM to Poland in the framework of our #COSTACtion #PCPSce. In this blog post, he describes how his visit to key institutions in Kraków, Warsaw, and Poznań helped him explore how print shaped Shakespeare’s early reception in Poland. www.pcps-ce.eu/yri-blog-sha...

Posting again for Monday morning. Lecturer (fixed term) in Medieval & Early Modern Literature sought here in the School of Lit, Drama & Creative Writing at UEA. Email me (address in ad) with any queries. Please share widely. #skystorians #medievalsky #earlymodern

In recognition of International Pride Month, we have chosen to highlight the rarely glimpsed but no less significant presence of LGBTQ+ people in early modern print culture. Visit our website to find out about the extraordinary life of Catharina Margaretha Linck: 💙 🩷 🤍 www.pcps-ce.eu/pride-month-...

Tomorrow and on Thursday I'll be at Ca' Foscari University, overlooking the #GrandCanal, for the final event of our MUR-funded project: an international conference on Italian people and books in 16th-cent. France. Only in person, free access www.unive.it/data/agenda/...

🌐Vienna Hackathon - Call for Contributions (Book history) 🖥️No coding skills required — just a dataset and curiosity! Deadline for Submissions: 31 July 2025 Location: Vienna (costs covered) Date: 10–12 December 2025 www.pcps-ce.eu/events/vienn...

📢 Call for Applications 📢 Summer School for Young Researchers and Innovators: 🍂Turning a New Leaf: Unexplored Central-European Bookscapes (1500-1800) 📖 Cluj-Napoca, Romania | 21-25th July Applications are due by May 23, 2025 Click here: www.pcps-ce.eu/yri-blog-clu...

The first newsletter of our #COSTAction #PCPSce is out now! Follow us for more updates on early modern #PrintCulture and public spheres in Central Europe, and consider becoming a member. @costprogramme.bsky.social #skystorians www.pcps-ce.eu/pcpsce-newsl...

🎉 We are thrilled to announce that our official website for #PCPSce is up and running! Here you can find our latest news, events and how to become a member of our #COSTAction 📖 👥: www.pcps-ce.eu #printculture #publicspheres #history #centraleurope #earlymodernperiod

Fruitful and inspiring discussions during the Working Group meetings of our #COSTAction #PCPSce in Prague last month. From larger meetings to smaller brainstorming sessions, there was lots of exchange that will undoubtedly lead to great research results! #PrintCulture @costprogramme.bsky.social

Why would printers from Rome, Frankfurt an der Oder, Dillingen or Pont à Mousson request a printing privilege in the 17th c. Habsburg Netherlands or the Dutch Republic? @ninalamal.bsky.social explores the phenomenon of cross-border requests #Earlymodern #bookhistory doi.org/10.51750/eml...

We are proud to present our #COSTAction at the 1st Central European History Convention, 17-19 July 2025, Vienna! ceh-c.univie.ac.at/news/ Lucy Císař Brown, Mona Garloff, and Martin Holý will host a workshop on our Action, fostering exchange among historians of Central Europe. #PCPSce #PrintCulture

The 2nd day of the General Meeting of our #COSTAction #CA23137 featured keynote lectures by Matthew Grenby, on children’s educational print; @massimorospocher.bsky.social, on the intermediality of public space; and Claire Madl and Michael Wögerbauer, on geographies of the book in Central Europe.

A belated Happy International Women's Day! The title page of this Breviary from 1543 names Thielman Kerver as the printer but he died 20 years before & his wife Yolande Bonhomme had taken over. She was a very prominent Parisian printer & bookseller printing well over 100 religious & secular works

Today is International Women's Day, and we are launching a campaign to celebrate women researchers and innovators in our COST Action. We currently have 58 women researchers and innovators with 63% of our leadership positions are occupied by women. #IWD2025 #WomenInResearch #COSTAction #PCPSce

As part of our #COSTAction General Meeting in February, some members of #CA23137 had the rare opportunity to visit the Kinsky Library within Prague’s Old Town Square. The visit was much enjoyed and will no doubt inspire future research projects amongst our members! #libraries #history #Prague

After a very productive first day of our general meeting for CA23173 here in Prague, we were delighted to share a welcome drink curtesy of the Czech Academy of Science! #COSTAction #Prague #Printculture #PublicSpheres #EarlyModernHistory

Happy to be in Prague to participate and learn more about early modern print culture and #digitalhumanities in the Cost Action @pcpsce.bsky.social. And of course, meet people from all over Europe!

The Prague meeting for COST Action 23137 PCPSce has now begun! We’re looking forward to three days of intensive networking and collaboration! Send us your pictures to: [email protected] #COSTAction #earlymodernhistory #centraleurope #printculture #publicsphere

We are thrilled to start our social media profile for CA23137! Join us to know about our COST Action Print Culture and Public Spheres in Central Europe (1500-1800). Whether you're a researcher, student, or simply curious, we're here to keep you informed and inspired!