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The Good Death in Early Modern Europe
ABSTRACT The inevitability of death does not change its variability. In The Hour of Our Death (1981), Philippe Ariès positioned the sudden, unexpected, mass death of epidemics (especially from the Black Death) against the personalized, domesticated death for which one had time to prepare. The domesticated death, so he argued, appeared during a specific
Cynthia Klestinec, Gideon Manning
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Recent acquisitions: incunabula
IN the selection of incunabula - in the happy days when this was a fairly regular activity - the first and uppermost reason for acquisition was typographical. The British Library collection aims to represent the work of all printers who produced books in
Hellinga, Lotte, Davies, Martin
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Francesco Griffo in Padua. From Goldsmith to 'Grammatoglypta' (1470-1480)
The essay outlines the state of knowledge on Francesco Griffo from Bologna and presents new and valuable archival evidences found in the State Archive of Padua.
Chiara Reatti, Paolo Tinti
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Romantic objects, Victorian collections: Scribal relics and the authorial body
Abstract Over the course of the nineteenth century, literary manuscripts came to be seen as tangible evidence of the creative process and as a key to the personality of the author. The material traces of writing were understood to outlive their creators and promise to resurrect the authorial body through the magic of the relic.
Tim Sommer
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Punctuation and text segmentation in 15th-century pamphlets
The use of punctuation in German incunabula is often described as arbitrary, irregular, and unsystematic (cf. Masalon 2014: 54–56). This concerns the inventory, frequency, and function of punctuation marks as well as pragmatic aspects such as how ...
Neumann Marko
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https://incunabulagreece.laskaridisfoundation.org/en/en-incunabula-in-greek-libraries/ Das Blog des Erschließungsprojekts weist gerade einmal drei Beiträge von 2020 auf ...
Klaus Graf
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The paper traces the events that led to the publication of the Catalogus historico-criticus Romanarum editionum saeculi XV – which the Dominican Giovanni Battista Audiffredi published in the context of the dispute with the French Francois-Xavier Laire ...
Lucrezia Signorello
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The following notice is the first draft description of the incunable, the famous Peregrinatio in terram sanctam, written by German nobleman, cathedral dean and politician in the Electorate of Mainz, Bernhard von Breidenbach, which had been discovered in ...
Irina N. Buzykina +4 more
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«Кафский логос» Шильтбергера / “Caffa’s logos” of Schiltberger
This article makes a comparative analyses of the Caffa's description in the manuscripts of Hans Schiltberger’s essay and incunabula. Here were reviewed the Heidelberg’s, Baden’s, and Munich’s manuscripts from the late 15th century, and also three ...
A.G. Emanov
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This article studies the role of the earliest books printed in the Dutch vernacular in the religious practice of lay individuals and the devout home. Many of the texts disseminated in these early printed books have received little attention and scholars ...
Anna Dlabačová
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