Uncovering the Story: Old Books, New Science, and the Silk Roads
Discover the back story behind Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads with an enthralling talk featuring the leader of the Toronto-based research team whose cutting-edge work made the exhibition possible.
Book care in Medieval China
How did people look after their books and libraries in medieval China?
“Making Many Books”: Books as Artefacts in the Medieval Islamicate World
This lecture discusses the material aspect of the production and consumption of books as manifested mainly in book lists from the Geniza.
Books in the Middle Ages with Erik Kwakkel
Episode 2 of The Medieval Podcast – How were books made and used in the Middle Ages? Danièle is joined by Erik Kwakkel, a ‘rockstar’ of the Book History world.
Book prices and monetary issues in Renaissance Europe
Was the price expressed in money of account or in coined money? In domestic or foreign currency? Is it possible to relate two prices expressed in different currencies?
Fabriano: City of Medieval & Renaissance Papermaking
Sylvia Rodgers Albro detailed technical advancements introduced in the Italian city of Fabriano, including machinery and equipment, use of watermarks and improvements in the physical processes of papermaking.
Living with Books in Renaissance Ferrara
The growth of private libraries was one of the most remarkable aspects of the history of the medieval book during the 14th and 15th centuries.
Baghdad as a Center of Learning and Book Production
Why does Baghdad become some an enormous centre of book production – of literature and the physical production of books?
Imagining the Past: Interplay between literary and visual imagery in late medieval France
Her research examines the relationships between text and image in vernacular late medieval French manuscripts.
Medieval Mysteries: Miscellanies and Mix Tapes
By Danièle Cybulskie In thinking this week about the medieval mysteries we’ll never solve, it struck me that one of the most fun…
Lost Works of the Middle Ages
Only a small fraction of the writings created in the Middle Ages have survived to the present day. Throughout the medieval period manuscripts would be destroyed or recycled, and in more recent centuries this process only worsened as fires, theft and neglect led to more losses. Many great works from the Middle Ages have been lost, with little hope that any copies survive. Here are five lost works that we would love to see again.
The First Book Reviewer
A book reviewer from the 9th century – unsurprisingly, he hated a lot of what he read.
The Love of Books
Books delight us, when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.
Did they burn books in the Middle Ages?
This ‘public relations’ aspect was not only essential to book-burning; it was even more important than actual the destruction of the book.
Monastic Space and the Use of Books in Anglo-Norman England
My summary of a paper given at the Institute of Historical Research on: Monastic Space and the Use of Books in Anglo-Norman England.
Medievalism, the Beautiful Book, and the Arts and Crafts Movement
My objective here is to examine briefly the influence of Medievalism on the emergence of the concept of the beautiful book in the Arts and Crafts movement, first in England and then its impact in publication design in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Spiritual ‘encyclopedias’ in eleventh-century Byzantium?
The theoretical debate concerning what constitutes an ‘encyclopedia’ in the Byzantine context appears to be not only underdeveloped, but also carried out in a vacuum with respect to the Latin medieval counterpart (and vice-versa).
On Omissions and Substitutions in the Medieval English Translations of the Gospel
In view of this we carried out research on two English medieval translations of John’s Gospel, believing that their comparison would not only reveal differences in the perception and experience of biblical concepts (expressed through language), but also those in culture, society and cognition that occurred in the period between their occurrence.
‘Selling stories and many other things in and through the city’: Peddling Print in Renaissance Florence and Venice
‘Selling stories and many other things in and through the city’: Peddling Print in Renaissance Florence and Venice Rosa M. Salzberg (University of…
‘Take almaundes blaunched …’ Cookbooks in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
What is a cooking recipe, what is a manual to good, healthy food in the epoch of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age?