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Team members Alina Lange and Stefan Laube recently appeared on the Herzog August Library podcast to discuss the fascinating world of early modern how-to books.

👉 Listen along (in German) here: www.hab.de/podcast-22-v...

#bookhistory #libraries #podcast

In our latest blog post, intern Sandrine Hoppe explores the earliest known recipe book authored by a woman in vernacular German, Anna Wecker's Ein köstlich new kochbuck (1598)

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#bookhistory #cookbook #blog

In our latest #blog post, Stefan Laube explores the role of #how-to knowledge in the long span of human history

Read more here: howtobook.hypotheses.org/4498

New on our #blog: @jamesafox.bsky.social explores the unique #marginalia in a one-of-a-kind 16th-century French arithmetic book from the Herzog August Bibliothek 📖🇩🇪🧮

Read more here: howtobook.hypotheses.org/4415

#bookhistory #rarebooks #knowledge #mathematics

In our latest blog post @jamesafox.bsky.social examines the only surviving copy of the first Paracelsian medical text printed in English, 1575 - an important milestone in the history of Anglophone how-to books.

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#bookhistory #rarebooks #medicalhistory

Elmswell Hall in Yorkshire, where 17th-century landowner Henry Best handwrote a farming #how-to book for his son.
In our latest blog, @jamesafox.bsky.social compares Best's advice on beekeeping with a printed equivalent. 📚🐝

👉 howtobook.hypotheses.org/4150

#bookhistory #bees #nationalwritingday

Last month the Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and German 🇩🇪 sides of our project met in Glasgow. In our latest blog post, Alina Lange reports on a successful trip 👇
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Whether on conduct or conversion, early modern etiquette manuals said much on the concept of 'galanterie'. 📖
Read more in our latest blog post by Stefan Laube 👇
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#bookhistory #skystorians

You may have heard of the 17th-century English diarist John Evelyn, but did you know he wrote a book on salad??
🥗 In our latest blog post, Alina Lange offers a taste of what Evelyn's 1699 Acetaria had to say on the subject of leafy meals...
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#bookhistory #foodhistory

This magnificent Tudor gatehouse stands at what was once a centre of the London booktrade. Recently #how-to researcher @jamesafox.bsky.social visited this and other sites following in the footsteps of #earlymodern how-to book buyers 📚
Read more on our blog: howtobook.hypotheses.org/3581
#bookhistory