How on earth have I gone all this while without knowing about the existence of the LOL Manuscripts blog? Its motto: "Everything could use a little LOL. Especially the Renaissance." Technically they're LOL woodcuts, but, as the author of the blog, a graduate student who makes frequent use of EEBO, puts it, "LOL Early Modern Printed Materials didn't have the same ring to it." My favorite so far: "UR dueling it wrong." My inner early modernist is vastly amused. (Plus, I feel exactly the same way about black letter.)
Is made of awesome.
Posted by: Dianna | June 19, 2008 at 08:25 PM