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Finds of the Month

March 2026: The Feral Icelander: Victor Hugo’s Depiction of the North in Han d’Islande

Ela Sefcikova

February 2026: The ultima thule of dress reform

Eline Elmiger

December 2025: “Eine Verfassung nach isländischem Muster”: Greenland, the Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord and the second German Northpole expedition 1870–1871

Amrei Stanzel

November 2025: Show me your bookshelf, and I’ll tell you who you are

Lena Rohrbach

October 2025: Torfæus’ successor? An interview with Jes Fabricius Møller, Historiographer to the Chapter of the Royal Orders in Denmark

Lucia Santercole

September 2025: “The little nation was the author.”

Lukas Rösli

August 2025: The Sammelmappe You’ve Never Heard Of: Eiríkur Magnússon's Forgotten Invention

Eline Elmiger

July 2025: Konráð Maurer, Konrad Maurer – not just a coincidence

Amrei Stanzel

June 2025: Let’s Hear Some Sievers

Tim Lüthi

April 2025: Greenland - a hot topic since the 18th century

Lucia Santercole

March 2025:
Don't judge a book by its cover

Lukas Rösli

February 2025:
Travel essentials for wayfaring philologists: European conversion rates c. 1700

Lena Rohrbach

January 2025:
Have you sneezed today?

Eline Elmiger

Dezember 2024:
Konráð Maurer - a 19th century playboy turned mastermind?

Amrei Stanzel

November 2024:
14kg of Thule

Tim Lüthi

October 2024:
Editorial challenges between dreams and fears

Lucia Santercole

September 2024:
Free prose and book prose avant la lettre

Lukas Rösli

August 2024:
On (lost) manuscripts, plagiarism and betrayal

Lena Rohrbach

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