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Digital Approaches to Paleography and Book History: Some Challenges, Present and Future
Quantitative methods and the use of technology in paleography and book history are by no means new. The New Palaeographical Society took advantage of the latest printing techniques to produce its albums of facsimiles in the late nineteenth century ...
Peter A. Stokes
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A Not So Global History of the Book
A review of Michael F. SUAREZ S.J., H.R. WOUDHUYSEN, eds., The Book: A Global History, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, 748 pp.
Cardoso, Catarina Figueiredo
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The Flood Last Time: ‘Muck’ and the uses of history in Kara Walker’s ‘Rumination’ on Katrina [PDF]
Kara Walker describes her book After the Deluge (2007) as “rumination” on Hurricane Katrina structured in the form of a “visual essay.” The book combines Walker's own artwork and the works of other artists into “a narrative of fluid symbols” in which the
Clyde, Deak, Hayden, MICHAEL P. BIBLER
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Introduction [BJHS special section: book history and the sciences] [PDF]
The expanding interest in book history over recent years has heralded the coming together of an interdisciplinary research community drawing scholars from a variety of literary, historical and cultural studies. Moreover, with a growing body of literature,
Topham, J.R.
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‘Vem de longe a marca do suporte material’: Uma Entrevista com João Luís Lisboa
In this interview João Luís Lisboa talks about the History of the Book as a discipline, and about the forms and uses of books.
Abel Barros Baptista
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Sorrow for books: What did the compilers of 16th-century autobibliographies worry about?
The article examines a type of “autobiographical sadness” — the author’s feelings associated with the creation and publication of books. Varied manifestations of self-reflection and emotions are found in texts of the autobibliographic genre, which ...
M. L. Sergeev
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Historiesyn, lesing og opplysning: Lokal historieforståing i Noreg midt på 1700-talet.
Samandrag Artikkelen drøftar antikvarisk medvit, historiesyn og opplysningstankar i Noreg midt på 1700-talet. Perspektivet er lokalt, sidan kjeldematerialet er norske embetsmenn sine svar på det store dansk-norske kartleggingsprosjektet i 1743. I tillegg
Leidulf Melve
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Scientific Publishing: Agents, Genres, Technique and the Making of Knowledge
The history of scientific publishing has been one of the most topical research subjects in the history of science during the last few decades. It has furthered scholarly communication with other disciplines, such as book history, the history of education
Josep Simon
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Czech Book History up to 1800 Online
This article describes the Knihověda.cz portal, which represents an essential infrastructure for esearching Czech book history until 1800. The portal includes three parts: its core consists of a atabase comprised of five partial bibliographic databases.
Lenka Veselá, Jindřich Marek
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The EMoBookTrade project, funded by the European Research Council and directed by Angela Nuovo, has developed a database on book prices (ca. 1530-1630) and book privileges (Venice, 1469 to 1603).
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