History of Material Texts seminars, Michaelmas 2017
October 3rd, 2017Seminar Series; Jason Scott-Warren
Thursday 26 October, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
Orietta da Rold (Cambridge), ‘A paper on (premodern) paper’
Thursday 16 November, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
John Gagné (Sydney), ‘Paper, Time, and Oblivion in Premodern Europe’
Thursday 23 November, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
Dennis Duncan (Munby Fellow, CUL), ‘Nitpickers vs Windbags: Weaponising the Book Index, 1698-1730’
Monday 27 November, 11.30 am-1 pm & Tuesday 28 November, 11.30 am-1 pm
Milstein Seminar Room, CUL
David Pearson (London), ‘Telling the sheep from the goat: a brief guide to historic bookbindings (1450-1800) for humanities researchers’
(please email jes1003@cam.ac.uk to prebook for these masterclasses)