Michal Choptiany
Post-philologist, semi-Ramist, and eclectic intellectual historian working on late medieval and early modern Central European debates on the calendar reform, assistant professor and postdoctoral research fellow at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
marginalia Joannes Broscius chronology Gregorian calendar manuscripts provenance research Julian calendar Uniates digitization calendar reform Peter Crüger Johannes Kepler polemical literature conference calendars Jan Latos Gdańsk Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences polemical writings history of the book and reading serendipity
Beware the Rheticus’s prophecy!
11 May 2016
Prophecies were ‘bestsellers’ not only in the Middle Ages but also in early modernity. More than year ago I started to work on a commentary to the edition of the manuscript...
20 April 2016
The yesterday’s post at Folger Library’s Collation brought back some memories of all the card catalogues I have studied back and forth over the past years, starting from...
23 March 2016
Few years ago I had the occasion to observe the heroic beginnings of the Virtual Museums of Lesser Poland (Wirtualne Muzea Małopolski, hereafter WMM) project which is aimed at...
Serendipity in provenance research: A postscript
10 March 2016
It’s been quite a while since I presented here the Serendipity Trilogy about the unexpected discovery of two books annotated by Joannes Broscius that were purchased in the second...