Early Modern How-to Books
DFG- & AHRC-funded project researching early modern how-to books and the histories of knowledge, science and the book 📖
Based at Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and Glasgow University 🇩🇪🤝🏴 Check out our website: howtobook.eu/
- Looks excellent! Long live the practical, knowledge-sharing books. My favourites!
- How does one learn practical skills from a book? Why were how-to books so popular in the early modern period, who used them and how, and can they even be considered a clearly defined genre? Find out the answer to these and other questions in our edited volume: brill.com/display/titl...
- Well said, Christian 🙌
- 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... howtobook.hypotheses.org/3708 #bookhistory #foodhistory
- Arguably *the first* book about salad according to articles we've come across 🥗
- Fascinating!
- #earlymodern how-to books often feature colourful and sometimes perplexing medical recipes involving 'abracadabra' charms... #bookhistory
- Lady Gaga’s pop anthem #Abracadabra is the latest chapter in a 2,000-year magical history 🪄 In this post, @jamesafox.bsky.social explores the history behind the themes of Gaga’s work. Of interest for #LittleMonsters and history enthusiasts alike! 🎶 #skystorians scilicet.org.uk/abracadabra-...
- 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
- Find out more about John Evelyn’s passion for salads on the HABlog: diglib.hab.de?link=204
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- Thank you so much Roland, great to have you along!!
- New on our blog: Stefan Laube reports on a recent workshop at the Herzog August Bibliothek, introducing the #how-to books project 👇 howtobook.hypotheses.org/3426
- In our latest #blog Hartmut Beyer and James Fox examine some 17th C #rarebooks used for calculating the price of wine and other commodities 🍷📖🧮 howtobook.hypotheses.org/3364
- The latest from our blog: Alina Lange on the #howto of learning to drive 🚗 howtobook.hypotheses.org/3206
- In our latest blog post @jamesafox.bsky.social explores the #howto book buying habits of an 18th- century Scottish lawyer in Germany 🏴🤝🇩🇪 howtobook.hypotheses.org/3168
- Want to know more about the 📚 #bookcollecting history behind our project? Check out this blog post by Stafan Laube on John Ferguson and Duke August the Younger, whose collections we're studying 👇 howtobook.hypotheses.org/3000 #bookhistory #rarebooks #booksky
- Happy belated #BurnsNight everyone!
- New year, new colleague, new blog post: Read about our new team member @jamesafox.bsky.social's first impressions of the Ferguson collection on our project blog “How-to: Tracts for Action” howtobook.hypotheses.org/2785
- How does one learn practical skills from a book? Why were how-to books so popular in the early modern period, who used them and how, and can they even be considered a clearly defined genre? Find out the answer to these and other questions in our edited volume: brill.com/display/titl...
