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Apr 9, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read Read on X
#medievaltwitter my 12 year old has started writing a historical fiction remash of robin hood and peasants revolts. (Yes, @ me, that’ll tell her). She needs names 1) historically appropriate for peasants 2) « not, like, really ugly »
We need your help 1/
Yes, #earlymodern I did try to impress her with the benefits of setting it in the #18c but she wasn’t interested with heroes called Catherine Hayes, Squire Nonsuchfool or Jeanne-Joseph-Françoise de la Baume Esperges de Quitterie 2/
She also needs the name of an English town where peasants would have met both weavers and foreigners at the fair because that’s part of the mystery plot and she doesn’t want to be told off by #medievaltwitter. And no, Nottingham doesn’t work. Already taken.3/
And all this is #HATM ´s fault, because we watched Robin Hood Prince of Thieves with you. She both hugely enjoyed the film (🤦🏼‍♀️) and discovered it was for all the wrong reasons listening to your comments, so now she’s got acute historian’s guilt...
Thanks to @DoctaLectrix we’ve been introduced to the brilliant medieval death bot @DeathMedieval. We’ve now got names for the heroes: Azeline & Copin. Also warning you that the bot is addictive, and « Death in Winchester » is going to rival #midsomermurders

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Oct 2, 2020
C'est publié! Our aim in preparing *Forms and Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge* was to take the discussion of formats into the busy world of business transactions, copyrights, economic constraints, and the hustle and bustle of the #printshop (brill.com/view/title/579…)
Here is a look at the TOC - these contributors were a dream to work with: James Raven, Jeffrey Hopes, Rebecca Schoff Curtin, @ijalexander2002 , Yvonne Cornish, @katieparker18th, @cgspence, James P. Ascher, @Jacqui_R_Walsh, David Duff - and co-editor Louisiane Ferlier ! ImageRaven: Jobbing printing in ...
It opens with James Raven's meticulous survey of jobbing, which provided a regular income stream for printers hardly achievable with other forms of prints (blank forms, blank forms, everywhere!) Affidavit of burial in wool
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Jul 31, 2020
🧵Tom McNulty #ArtMarket Research (2014 2ndEd) is a good bibliography to start with, with chapter 8 on the sources for historic markets. For the #18C, the most recent is @GettyMuseum London and the Emergence of a European Art Market (2019)

shop.getty.edu/products/londo…
For European markets, mining Titia Hulst's A History of the Western #ArtMarket @ucpress is a must. It covers Italian city states, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Germany and Spain, London and Paris for the #18C
Most art market studies are done on a national level (viz, eco and law histories often are) Let me however bring your attention to the groundbreaking @DriesLyna and Jan Dirk Baetans Art Crossing Borders @brill 2019
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Jul 16, 2020
The book has a cover!
The Library of the Written Word has switched the @Brill_History standard placeholder for this beautiful @Volvelle, image courtesy of the @royalsociety
Louisiane Ferlier and I are over the moon....
#BookHistory ImageImage
More to come but our deepest thanks go to the Volume 83 authors James Raven, Jeffrey Hopes, Rebecca Schoff Curtin, @ijalexander2002 , Yvonne Cornish, @katieparker18th , @cgspence , James P. Ascher, Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, David Duff. Its been wonderful!
The volume is the result of conferences: Forms and Formats - Experimenting with Prints @bodleianlibs @OrielOxford @JesusCollegeLib with support from Centre for the Study of the Book and thanks to @w758
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Jul 16, 2020
The book has a cover!
The Library of the Written Word has switched online for the @Brill_History standard placeholder to this beautiful #volvelle, image courtesy of @royalsociety
Louisiane Ferlier and I are over the moon ... #Bookhistory #twitterstorians ImageImage
More to come, but our deepest thanks to our Volume 83 authors James Raven, Jeffrey Hopes, Rebecca Schoff Curtin, @ijalexander2002 , Yvonne Cornish, @katieparker18th , @cgspence , James P. Ascher, Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, and David Duff. Its been wonderful!
The volume is the result of conferences: Forms and Formats - Experimenting with Prints @bodleianlibs @OrielOxford @JesusCollegeLib thanks to the support of Centre for the Study of the Book and @w758
bodleian.ox.ac.uk/?a=151534
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Apr 22, 2020
I’m tired of the clickbait and sensationalist « #discovery  » trope in #arthistory . The Angers Tapestry was rediscovered in the 19th century, (not unusual for tapestries) not by the guardian yesterday 1/. Forgotten French tapestry/The Guardian theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…
The first paragraph uses « basement gallery » and « provincial » to bolster the discovery claim. The « basement » gallery is a high tech LED-equipped prize-winning museography, reopened in 2010. . 2/
The gallery hosting it was opened in 1950 - but before that it was exhibited in the episcopal palace, where the artist Jean #Lurçat was so enthralled upon seeing it that he created his masterpiece Chant du Monde. Now also hosted in Angers. 3/
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