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Alfonso de Zamora

@perurealfonso.bsky.social

@tetraseminar.bsky.social seminars are usually recorded and made available later on their YT channel: www.youtube.com/@TeTraSeminar #EarlyModern #Philology #TextualStudies #MaterialTexts #OttomanStudies #GreekStudies

TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · Jan 22

We are excited to host Samet Budak (Princeton) next Thursday 29 January at 5PM CET (note the unusual timeslot!).
The topic of his paper is Greek translations in the early Ottoman period!
If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.

January 25, 2026 at 11:03 PM

Material Texts UTU

@materialtextutu.bsky.social

We're on bluesky! Hooray!

Save the date! 📚📜📓

The Eighth Material Text Seminar will be held (via Zoom) on Wednesday 15 May 2024, 4-6 pm EEST.

Signups soon! #materialtext #medievalsky #earlymodern #materiality #textualstudies

April 9, 2024 at 12:14 PM

Lindsey Eckert

@lindseckert.bsky.social

FSU’s English Department has a funded (through teaching) 2-year MA program with particular strengths in #bookhistory #textualstudies the long #19thc and contemporary #ecocriticism.

I don’t want to minimize the scary things about life & education in FL! But there are also positive things about FSU

October 11, 2023 at 11:51 AM

Sebastian Hageneuer

@archaeobasti.bsky.social

#280CharAbstracts: Maria Shinoto emphasizes text literacy as a core skill in archaeology. Digital tools open new possibilities for analyzing and teaching textual sources in innovative ways.

🔗 doi.org/10.11588/pro...

#Archaeology #TextualStudies

February 19, 2026 at 5:10 PM

Rachael Raine Rivers

@rachaelrainerivers.bsky.social

Story about a story! Book history for girly nerds.
#booksky #writersky #librarian #rarebooks #bookhistory #textualstudies
rachaelreadsandwrites.substack.com/p/everything...

"Everything is a Story": The History of A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Non-Fiction Blog Post Series. It was my birthday last week. So, as a present to myself, I get to monologue a bit about my all-time favorite book since age 7.

rachaelreadsandwrites.substack.com

June 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM

Marco Pouget

@marcopouget.bsky.social

Day 2 of our "Academic Retreat" on premodern #philology: more presentations, especially from #musicology (some interactive!), good food, and #castle vibes. @lmumuenchen.bsky.social #textstudies #literature #history #literature #textualstudies #PhD #Munich @uni-wuerzburg.de @fau.de

January 28, 2026 at 5:35 PM

Natale Vacalebre

@natvacalebre.bsky.social

Now Esther Borrego Gutiérrez (Universidad Complutense) walks us through the fascinating world of the religious "villancico", a mixed genre of popular music and verses developed in early modern Spain.

#writing #popular #music #religious #navidad #textualstudies #comedy #emotions

January 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM

Colleen T

@librarycolleen.bsky.social

Now we've arrived at the visual layout of the page for readability, and honestly, I just taught all of these points last week in Special Collections with manuscripts and early printed books. I appreciate the continuity of texts. #TextualStudies

October 26, 2023 at 1:51 PM

Kathy Harris

@triproftri.bsky.social

At Univ of Virginia @elaboratories.bsky.social this weekend to talk about #19c annuals from a textual editing + #DH (always) perspective. Underneath all of the different presentations this year has always been my 💌for #textualstudies / #bibliography / editing 📚🧠🤩rooted in #bookhistory #uva #cde

Opening slide for "The Literary Annuals as Editorial Problem: Editing Empire on the Parlour Table" plus Katherine D. Harris' contact information. Background image is a view of Harris' collection of British and American literary annuals, emblems and almanacs.

A slide from the presentation that focuses on the editing tasks with text "Material form is editorial evidence" and 4 images of book cover, slipcase, inscription page, and gilt spine from the Internet Archive.

Slide from the presentation with 2 images and the text "What does a page know?" and the images providing both the page and a close up a footnote to demonstrate an editorial intervention (or intrusion!) into the reading experience.

August 8, 2026 at 2:37 PM

Studies of Biblical Interest

@biblicaljournal.bsky.social

📖 Resource Share: Journal of Septuagint and Cognate Studies (JSCS) - the annual journal of IOSCS, featuring articles, reviews, and research on the Septuagint & related texts. Digitized back issues (vols. 1–50) now available!

#Septuagint #BiblicalStudies #JSCS #TextualStudies