omg I have a #Ukrainian font fetish now
#cyrillic #historyofthebook #bookstodon #printing #letters #fonts
#ukrainian #cyrillic #historyofthebook #bookstodon #printing #letters #fonts
So, now that we've done Byrd, who's up for some Orlando di Lasso?
There are "only" 516 motets in the posthumous #MagnumOpusMusicum (1604)
(BTW, Did everyone hear about the discovery of 37 pages of proofs for #MOM last year??? That's HUGE in the #HistoryOfTheBook realm for #music -- our first discovered example of how it was done!)
https://rism.info/rediscovered/2021/03/15/proofs-orlando-di-lasso-magnum-opus-musicum.html
#magnumopusmusicum #mom #historyofthebook #music #total #complete #Byrd #byrdathon #COLLECTION #lasso
New THIS WEEK
The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1929 by Cristina Stanciu
How ideas of American citizenship and identity were formed in the process of “Americanizing” Native Americans and Eastern European immigrants
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300224351/the-makings-and-unmakings-of-americans/
#histodons #history #twitterstorians #books #newbooks #immigration #Americanization #NativeAmericaneducation #historyofthebook #immigranteducation #assimilation #boardingschools
#histodons #history #twitterstorians #books #newbooks #immigration #americanization #nativeamericaneducation #historyofthebook #immigranteducation #assimilation #boardingschools
Now that I've switched to a better home, let me reintroduce myself. I'm an English professor in TX, studying #EighteenthCentury #BritishLiterature, and I'm especially interested in #HistoryOfTheNovel and #BookHistory #HistoryOfTheBook. Also dipping a toe into #DigitalHumanities. Hello world 😉
#EighteenthCentury #britishliterature #historyofthenovel #bookhistory #historyofthebook #digitalhumanities