Partus Secundus

Dates

September 29 - October 15

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Content

In the second module students will be introduced to histoire du livre, or history of the book, or, as it is increasingly called, book history.

Schedule

September 29: Introduction to Book History: Cuneiforms, papyrus, mss, paper, ink. Read the first two chapters of McKitterick's Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order	October 1: Gutenberg. Familiarize yourself with this Book History Chronology
October 6: Europe from Gutenberg to the c18th. Read McKitterick, ch. 7.	October 8: Caxton & England to the c18th
October 13: Thanksgiving - no class	October 15: Second Module Exam

 

Texts

McKitterick, David. Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450 – 1830.
Foxe, John. Book of Martyrs Variorum Edition Online