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4 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This printed image appeared as one of the 1680s media reactions to the ongoing military tensions between Christian European states and the Muslim Ottoman Empire. #mediahistory #bookhistory

Source: t1p.de/5ram
Copperplate print "Ein Kalb mit einem Türcken Kopf", 1683.
Whenever the general conflict and their military campaigns heated up in the seventeenth-century, media flows about Ottomans ("Türcken") found their way into print in Christian Europe. Broadsides and pamphlets, even a German newspaper devoted to the topic was published these days.
The depiction of an encountered Christian threat as a news-worthy (and good-selling) deformed animal or even “monster” followed in response to assumed news-buyer demand by economic-driven publishers. Early modern media coverage of relevant news events was in its core a business.
If we change the perspective, this leads to the question: what images of Christian Europe were at this time present or circulating in the Ottoman Empire? #entangledHistory

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Why do we call early modern Europe a paper age? Well, let's have a look at the hints given on this painting from early seventeenth-century by Jan Lievens. Source: t1p.de/of6z (Alte Pinakothek, München).

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We will build an online reference work for the annually-published Early Modern German writing calendar, the #Schreibkalender, funded by @dfg_public and in cooperation with the "AG Digitale Forschungsdaten und Forschungsinformationen" @UniFAU.

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While being a characteristic part of the contemporary media ensemble in the German-speaking areas of Europe, the #Schreibkalender was produced from its beginning in 1540 in high quantities and reached very large audiences.
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Aga, Muselmann, Nippes, Pavillon.

Unbekannte aber geläufige Fremd- und Fachwörter in frühneuzeitlichen Zeitungen konnte man nachschlagen: in sog. Zeitungs-Lexica, in "verteutschten Avisen-Curieren". Das war Parallel-Lektüre, Horizonttraining und Wissenszugang.
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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 schooling scene from the seventeenth century by Jan Steen.

Source: t1p.de/7e0x

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Let's focus on the details.

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One of my scholarly lists about early modern stuff is fighting this Christmas. So far, this is the best punch line: “You belong on Twitter, not on a scholarly list.”
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