Past Programs
The fixity of print—or the ability of print publication to establish a stable text—has been banished from the scholarly lexicon. Dr. Lynch will raise the prospect only to propose that there are genres in which a desire for fixity are well served by print publication. The teleologically driven spiritual experience, or Protestant conversion narrative, is one.
How can the history of the book engage more fully with recent developments in the history of Renaissance sexualities? Professor Masten will consider a range of examples to think about same-sex male eroticism in and around early printed books, from the perspective of production as well as reception.
The History of the Book Lecture previously scheduled for this date has been canceled by the speaker.
The Prophet Muhammad in Late Medieval Christian Manuscripts
The Book as Gadget: The Rise of E-Readers and E-Reading
Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
Becoming a Knight: Visual Evidence in Medieval Books
Representing Language: The Illustration of Code-Switching in Late-Medieval Manuscripts
Bankruptcy in the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade
Christine Ferdinand, Magdalen College Library, University of Oxford
Catholic Bible Publishing in the Vernacular after the Council of Trent: A European Overview
François Dupuigrenet-Desroussilles, Florida State University
The Letters of Lupus of Ferrières
Michael I. Allen, University of Chicago
Poetry on the Page: Anglophone Couplets and Historical Practices of “Silent” Reading
J. Paul Hunter, University of Virginia
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Through the Pages of the Past: The Jewish Book in Its Historical Contexts
David Stern, University of Pennsylvania
Some Major Middle English Poetic Manuscripts and their Marginalia
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Notre Dame University
Inculcating Habitus through Book Technology: Nicole Oresme’s Le livre de éthiques d’Aristote
Katharine Breen, Northwestern University
The Role of Codicology in the Historical Critical Edition of Medieval Texts
Kent Emery, University of Notre Dame
A Futurist’s Middle Ages: Albert Robida and Design Heritage
Edward Tenner, Princeton University
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The First Printed Library Catalogue? A German Doctor’s Library of the Sixteenth Century and Its Place in the History of the Distribution of Books by Catalog
Giles Mandelbrote, British Library
(now with Lambeth Palace Library)
The Reader’s Dilemma: Ascetic and Aesthetic Approaches to Reading and Ethics
Brian Stock, University of Toronto (now emeritus)
Books Fit for a Portuguese Queen: The Library of Catherine of Austria (1507-1578) and the Milan Connection
Kevin M. Stevens, University of Nevada-Reno
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Workshop: Introduction to the Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance
Angela Nuovo, Universitá di Udine
This program was supported by a generous grant from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and was cosponsored by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Chicago.
Book Collecting in Sixteenth-Century Italy: The Library of Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, 1535 – 1601
Angela Nuovo, Universitá di Udine
L’expérience française au Nouveau Monde à la Renaissance, à travers livres et cartes
Frank Lestringant, Université de Paris Sorbonne
Social Rhythms in the Middle Ages
Jean-Claude Schmitt, École des Hautes Études en Sceinces Sociales
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From a Medieval Classroom: The Newberry’s Manuscript of Aesopic Fables and Tobias
Edward Wheatley, Loyola University Chicago
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Rare Books and Manuscripts in Midwestern Collections
Lyrical Book Design: Image, Music, and Text in Gautier de Coinco’s Miracles de Nostre Dame
Kathryn Duys, University of St. Francis
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School Masters, Seduction, and Slavery: Polygot Dictionaries and Early Modern England
Susie Phillips, Northwestern University
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The Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century Italy and Gabriele Giolito’s Branch System
Angela Nuovo, University of Udine
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Generic Transference and the Invention of the Picaresque
David Boruchoff, McGill University
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Marketing Humanism
Paul Gehl, The Newberry Library
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The Book in Early Modern Italy, Who Were the Producers and Consumers?
The Pulci Family and the Florentine Press, 1480-1500
Elissa Weaver, University of Chicago
A Great French Renaissance Library Discovered: Claude de Laubespine, 1545-1570, His Books, His Bindings
Isabelle de Conihout, Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris
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From Manuscript Miscellanies to Printed Books: the Earliest Robin Hood Poems in Context
Thomas Ohlgren, Purdue University (now emeritus)
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Courtesy and Cookery: Courtesy Books and the Household as Schools for Women in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
Sharon Michalove, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (now emerita)
Rereading Early Modern Conduct Literature
Frances E. Dolan, University of California, Davis
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Manuscripts of the Mind and Their Makers: Donne, Jonson, and the Transmission of the Text
Mark Bland, The Open University, U.K.
(now at DeMontfort University, Leicester)
Textual Criticism and the History of the Book: Literature and the Printing Shop, Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries
Roger Chartier, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
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The Patristic Revival and Theological Polemics in the Sixteenth Century: Controversialists’ Editions of the Fathers
Ralph Keen, University of Iowa
(now at University of Illinois at Chicago)
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Affective Literacy, the Flesh, and the Text
Mark Amsler, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
(now at University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Books and Scrolls: Reading Discontinuously
Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania
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Books as Maps, Maps as Books: Looking for Narratives in Atlas Design
James Akerman, The Newberry Library
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Translating Images: The Decorated Page in French, English, and Latin Versions of Guillaume de Deguilville’s Trois Pelerinages
Richard K. Emmerson, The Medieval Academy
(now at Manhattan College)
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Lancelot-Grail Illustrations in Early Printed Books
Alison Stones, University of Pittsburgh
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Visual Inscription in Laurent de Premierfait’s Translations of Boccaccio
Anne D. Heernan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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The Introduction of Paper to Europe, 800-1500
Timothy Barrett, Center for the Book, University of Iowa
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The production of Hebrew Manuscripts: Progression or Regression
Malachi Beit-Arie, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, now emeritus
Medieval Wax Tablets: Between Memory and Oblivion
Elisabeth Lalou, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
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Printer’s Marks: Signifying Literacy in the Marketplace
Paul Gehl, The Newberry Library
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Minds, Bodies, and Readers in Early Modern Europe: Toward a History of Reading and Mind-Body Medicine
Brian Stock, University of Toronto, now emeritus
Looking for Gratian’s Hand in the Early Manuscripts of the Decretum
Anders Winroth, Yale University
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Anatomy, Cartography, and the New World Body
Valerie Traub, University of Michigan
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Reconsidering the Scholar-Printers of the 16th Century: Estienne and Colines
Kay Amert, University of Iowa
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The Genesis of Word Separation at Fleury
Paul Saenger, The Newberry Library
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