Speaking at Cambridge's Early Modern French seminar today on cards, performance, and romance. They made me a lovely poster! #18thC - ThreadSky

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jharrimansmith.bsky.social • 109 days ago

Speaking at Cambridge's Early Modern French seminar today on cards, performance, and romance. They made me a lovely poster! #18thC

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drjannmatlock.bsky.social•109 days ago

lovely poster. i assume no zoom / hybrid option?

jharrimansmith.bsky.social•106 days ago

Alas, no. There's an abstract of the talk on my website now: https://jharrimansmith.net/presentations/a-book-of-hearts-jean-de-prechacs-les-desordres-de-la-bassette-1682-and-susanna-centlivres-the-basset-table-1705/ - happy to talk more over DM if you're interested!

drjannmatlock.bsky.social•106 days ago

Thanks! will look forward to learning more. Do you know about the incredible work of Jeff Ravel on playing cards in the Fr rev era? we gave his great essay honorable mention for the Koren prize in SFHS last year, link below.Totally wonderful! https://www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/the-william-koren-jr-prize

catgrimm.bsky.social•109 days ago

Are cards the reason why the French say 4 x 20 for 80? Lovely poster!

jharrimansmith.bsky.social•106 days ago

I don't think so. I think it goes back much further. When I say it, I always think of how we once would say 'score' in English: "I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less" in King Lear, for example.

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