Research News

Publications:

Voorneveld, N. (2024). Een middeleeuwse tekst met vele gezichten: Een terugblik op Karel ende Elegast, review of Vertellen is een kunst. De geschiedenis van Karel ende Elegast in Madoc (Vol. 37, Issues 3–4, pp. 198–200). Amsterdam University Press. (Book Review)

Conference Papers:

Melissa Bastian/Rabea Kohnen (University of Vienna),"Erzählbrüche. Die Heterogenität früher deutscher Prosa," Workshop, University of Bremen, 13-15 March 2024

Laurie Hoeben (University of Zurich), "The Ideal "Arthurian Book": From Manuscript to Antoine Vérard," The Renaissance Society of America Conference, Chicago 21-23 March 2024

Richard Trachsler (University of Zurich), "Looking for Vérard’s Model of the Merlin" The Renaissance Society of America Conference, Chicago 21-23 March 2024

Brenda Luies (University of Galway), “Anchoritic Additions: Henry Pepwell's 1521 Printing of The Book of Margery Kempe” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 5-9 May 2024

Rosenn Nicolas (University of Galway), “Rayonnement de l’imprimerie lyonnaise en Europe à la Renaissance, L’exemple des livres du XVIe siècle, imprimés à Lyon, conservé à la bibliothèque patrimoniale de Dole," Conference Le livre à Lyon à la Renaissance, 30-31 May 2024

Melissa Bastian (University of Vienna), "Institutstagung 2024: Institut für Germanistik der Universität Wien," University of Vienna, 3-5 June 2024

Marika Fox (University of Antwerp), "Modelling Book Auctions: Early Project Progress Report," 11th edition of the DH Benelux Conference, Irish College in Leuven, 5-7 June 2024

Ad Putter (University of Bristol), Organiser: Panel "From Manuscript to Print (And Back Again): Re-Mediating Books in the Age of the Incunable" International Congress on Medieval Studies 1-4 July 2024

Brenda Luies (University of Galway), “Permissible Printing and Subversive Femininity: Saint Ursula in William Caxton’s English print Polychronicon” International Congress on Medieval Studies 1-4 July 2024

Nicky Voorneveld (University of Antwerp) "Karel ende Elegast in Manuscript and Print" International Congress on Medieval Studies 1-4 July 2024

Kaila Yankelevich (University of Bristol) "From Press to Quill: Handwritten Copies of Middle English Caxton Prints" International Congress on Medieval Studies 1-4 July 2024

Véronique George (University of Bristol) "Crisis and Resilience in the French Medieval Publishing World" International Congress on Medieval Studies 1-4 July 2024

Véronique George (University of Bristol), "Retelling the Arthurian legend – L’Enchanteur of René Barjavel" 27th Congress of the International Arthurian Society, Aix-Marseille University, 12th-18th July 2024

Kaila Yankelevich (University of Bristol), "Duty and Honour: Tournaments in the Merciless Land of Perlesvaus" 27th Congress of the International Arthurian Society, Aix-Marseille University, 12th-18th July 2024

Laurie Hoeben (University of Zurich), "Le livre “Arthurien parfait”. Du manuscrit à Antoine Vérard" 27th Congress of the International Arthurian Society, Aix-Marseille University, 12th-18th July 2024

Ian Wong (University of Galway), "Project LEBOR: Towards an open resource for popular print culture in early modern Ireland" 12th Annual Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference, University of Galway, 16-17th August 2024

Wordpress Blog:

Nicky Voorneveld, University of Antwerp, "A Medieval Error 404: Page Not Found in a 16th-Century Edition of Karel Ende Elegast,"  8 February 2024, url: https://rebpaf.wordpress.com/2024/02/08/a-medieval-error-404-page-not-found-in-a-16th-century-edition-of-karel-ende-elegast/

Ian Wong, University of Galway, "An occult tome in the West of Ireland: a first-edition copy of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s ‘De occulta philosophia’ (1533) in the University of Galway’s Special Collections," 7 March 2024, url: https://rebpaf.wordpress.com/2024/03/07/an-occult-tome-in-the-west-of-ireland-a-first-edition-copy-of-heinrich-cornelius-agrippas-de-occulta-philosophia-1533-in-the-university-of-galways-special-collections/

Véronique George, University of Bristol, "The Annotated Books Online (ABO), A Digital Archive of Early Modern Annotated Books," 11 April 2024, url: https://rebpaf.wordpress.com/2024/04/11/the-annotated-books-online-abo-a-digital-archive-of-early-modern-annotated-books/

Luca Hollenborg, University of Zurich, "Why would a humanist print a ‘Dark Age’ gardening poem and what we can learn from dedicatory letters," 10 May 2024 url: https://rebpaf.wordpress.com/2024/05/10/why-would-a-humanist-print-a-dark-age-gardening-poem-and-what-we-can-learn-from-dedicatory-letters/

Laurie Hoeben, University of Zurich, "Manuscript or print? The case of Antoine Vérard’s Guiron le Courtois” 6 June 2024, url: https://rebpaf.wordpress.com/2024/06/06/manuscript-or-print-the-case-of-antoine-verards-guiron-le-courtois/

Brenda Luies, University of Galway, "Various Hands, Various Additions: Beginning, Noting, and Repair" 5 July 2024, url: https://rebpaf.wordpress.com/2024/07/05/various-hands-various-additions-beginning-noting-and-repair/

Eva-Lotte Gebhardt, University of Vienna, "The mystery of the Japanese Hyakumantou Dharani. Did you know that the earliest preserved print work in the world were magic spells?" 6 August 2024, url: https://rebpaf.wordpress.com/2024/08/06/the-mystery-of-the-japanese-hyakumantou-dharani-did-you-know-that-the-earliest-preserved-print-work-in-the-world-were-magic-spells/

Kaila Yankelevich, University of Bristol, "Keeping Up With the Trevelyans: On Owning (and Loving) Books" 10 September 2024, url: https://rebpaf.wordpress.com/2024/09/10/keeping-up-with-the-trevelyans-on-owning-and-loving-books/

Melissa Bastian, University of Vienna, "How to Cook a Bear: a 16th-Century Recipe Book" 4 October 2024, url: https://rebpaf.wordpress.com/2024/10/04/how-to-cook-a-bear-a-16th-century-recipe-book/

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