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I, monster: queerness and the Liber Monstrorum in early medieval St Gall

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 543-564, November 2024.
This article analyses a ninth‐century copy of the Liber monstrorum from St Gall in which the first monster, a ‘human of both sexes’, speaks in the first person. The scribe also put the Liber monstrorum into dialogue with Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, in which Isidore argued that monsters were not ‘contrary to nature’.
Michael Eber
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Sidereal Messages: Print Letters in Restoration Astronomical Writing

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 59-76, March 2024.
Abstract Astronomy, a paradigmatic observational discipline of early modern ‘science’, relied on epistolary communication for coordinating practitioners across the world, publishing discoveries and theories, and seeking their confirmation from other virtuosi.
Florian Klaeger
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The Carolingian cocio: on the vocabulary of the early medieval petty merchant

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 57-81, February 2024.
The word cocio (i.e. petty merchant or broker in classical Latin) was a rare term that after a long absence in written Latin reappeared in several Carolingian texts. Scholars have posited a medieval semantic shift from ‘merchant’ to ‘vagabond’. But this article argues that this consensus is erroneous.
Shane Bobrycki
wiley   +1 more source

Bericht über die 2017 American Library Association Annual Conference and Exhibition, June 22 -27, Chicago

o-bib. Das offene Bibliotheksjournal, 2017
Tagungsbericht
Ewald Brahms, Matthias Harbeck, Karl-Wilhelm Horstmann, Bettina Müller, Thomas Stäcker   +4 more
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The epistemological and artistic relevance of Robert Fludd’s memory theatres

Galilæana
This article explores the memory theatres in Robert Fludd’s major work Utriusque cosmi historia (History of both worlds), focusing in particular on their epistemological and artistic relevance.
Ute Frietsch
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Ein neues Fragment von 'Unser vrouwen klage'

Maniculae, 2020
In der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel wurde ein Fragment des 14. Jahrhunderts von 'Unser vrouwen klage' wiederaufgefunden. Der Beitrag beschreibt und transkribiert das Fragment.
Carsten Becker, Teresa Reinhild Küppers, Lara Schwanitz   +2 more
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Barcamp Data and Demons: von Bestands- und Forschungsdaten zu Services

Library Ideas, 2018
Der Beitrag thematisiert das innovative Tagungsformat eines Barcamps am konkreten Beispiel der im Rahmen des Forschungsverbundes Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel durchgeführten Veranstaltung "Data and Demons: Von Bestanddaten zu Services".
Swantje Dogunke, Timo Steyer
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«Un organismo vivente con vita autonoma». Libraries as subject of a PhD school between Osnabrück and Wolfenbüttel

Bibliothecae.it, 2016
Last Autumn has been launched in Osnabrück a new graduate school, in cooperation with the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, entirely devoted to the history of early modern libraries.
Paola Molino
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Frühmoderne Ökonomien des Sammelns und ihre digitale Erforschung – Die Professorenbibliothek Johann Gottfried Lakemachers (1695–1736) als Fallbeispiel

Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften
Auction catalogues are important sources for the study of historical collections. This article emphasises this point by way of a digital analysis of the catalogue compiled for the auction of Johann Gottfried Lakemacher’s library in 1737.
Maximilian Görmar
doaj   +1 more source

[Saints and urology : The right saint for every disease]. [PDF]

Urologe A, 2021
Schwarzburger MI, Moll FH, Söhner F.
europepmc   +1 more source