University of Basel

Department of
Languages and Literatures

Anglophone Linguistics and Literary Studies

Publications of Dr. Philippe Bernhard Schmid


  Journal Articles
  • ‘The Workplace of Enlightenment: Colin Campbell and the Repurposing of Paper’, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2024), under review.
  • ‘The Student as Broker: Friedrich Wilhelm Roloff and the Translation of Early Modern Biblical Scholarship’, Erudition and the Republic of Letters, 8 (2023), pp. 36–78.
  • ‘Sharing Marks in Early Modern Books’, Imprimatur, NF 27 (2021), pp. 31–52.
  Book Chapters
  • ‘Türhüter des Wissens: Julius Carl Schläger und die europäische Numismatik im späten 18. Jahrhundert’, in Martin Mulsow and Dirk Sangmeister (eds.), Aufklärung und Residenzstadt – Das intellektuelle Gotha um 1800 (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2024), forthcoming (in press).
  • ‘The Government at Auction: Urban Policy and the Market for Books in Eighteenth-Century Lübeck’, in Ann-Marie Hansen and Arthur der Weduwen (eds.), Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650–1750 (Leiden: Brill, 2024), pp. 238–262.
  • ‘Catalogues in Catalogues: Imitation and Competition in Early Modern Book Collecting’, in Arthur der Weduwen, Andrew Pettegree and Graeme Kemp (eds.), Book Trade Catalogues in Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2021), pp. 399–424.
  Reviews & Review Essays
  • Review Essay on Matthew Daniel Eddy, Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700–1830 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023), History of Universities, forthcoming.
  • Review on Martin Mulsow, Fremdprägung. Münzwissen in Zeiten der Globalisierung (Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2023), Journal of the History of Collections (15 March, 2024), pp. 1–3.
  • Review on Vera Keller, The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023), Intellectual History Review (8 February, 2024), pp. 1–3.
  • Review on Philip Beeley, Yelda Nasifoglu and Benjamin Wardhaugh (eds.), Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe: Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books (New York: Routledge, 2021), British Journal for the History of Mathematics, 38/1 (2023), pp. 1–3.
  Digital Publications
  • ‘Brokering the Enlightenment: Scotland and the World’, IASH Blog, Workshop Report (Edinburgh: The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2023).
  • ‘Annotiertes Wissen: Lehrbücher und die Vermittlung von Information in der Aufklärung’, SPK-Forschungsnewsletter, 06 (2023) & Blog Article (Berlin: Berlin State Library, 2023).
  • ‘Reading Descartes: The Case of Colin Campbell’, Preserving the World’s Rarest Books, Blog Article (St Andrews: University of St Andrews, 2020).
  • ‘William Sanders: A Life of Science and Satire’, Preserving the World’s Rarest Books, Blog Article (St Andrews: University of St Andrews, 2019).
  • ‘Herzog Augusts Bücherradkatalog. Artefakt und Mythos’, Exhibition at the Herzog August Library, Digital Presentation (Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Library, 2017).
  Miscellanies
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