History of the Book Conference: Bibliophilia and Bibliophobia
Online conference organized by the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) at Durham University. This 2-day conference on ‘Bibliophilia and bibliophobia’ in the medieval and early modern history […]
Virtual Book Launch: Furnace and Fugue
Virtual Book Launch for Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s “Atalanta fugiens” (1618) with Scholarly Commentary. This open-access digital book, which Tara Nummedal (Brown University) and Donna […]
Steal (Not) this Book: Early Modern Conceptions of Book Provenance
Virtual event organized by SRS – Society for Renaissance Studies (UK) Speakers: Lubaaba Al-Azami (Liverpool) Liesbeth Corens (QMUL) Sjoerd Levelt (Bristol) Katie McKeogh (Oxford) Monday August 31, 2020, 17:00–18:00 BST […]
Constellations Exhibition Launch and Guided Tour
If the library is the cosmos, and books are the stars that fill it, then readers are celestial observers. Like ancient astronomers gazing at the sky, early modern readers created […]
Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy
Join author Hannah Marcus (Harvard University) and Rare Book School faculty member Nick Wilding (University of Virginia) for a conversation about Marcus’s book Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in […]
Plagues, Practitioners, and Prints: Visualizing Pre-Modern Medical Know-How
Virtual event on “Plagues, Practitioners, and Prints: Visualizing Pre-Modern Medical Know-How” for the 76th Historia Medica Lecture at Bernard Becker Medical Library (St Louis, MO) and the Center for the […]
The Total Library: Aspirations for Complete Knowledge in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Virtual conference organized by Barnard College, Columbia University. According to Borges, “The fancy or the imagination or the utopia of the Total Library has certain characteristics that are easily confused with virtues.” This […]
Furnace and Fugue
For the next online lecture at The Grolier Club (NY), Tara Nummedal (Brown University) will speak on Furnace and Fugue, a digital edition of Michael Maier’s 17th-century Atalanta fugiens with […]
Epidemics and Infectious Disease
For the next Dissertation Inspiration Seminar (Wellcome Collection), the session will use a variety of materials in the collection to explore how infectious diseases have been understood across different time […]
Hunting for Readers in 16th-Century Editions of the Works of Euclid
For next seminar in the History of the Book (Bodleian Libraries), Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford) will give a talk entitled “Hunting for readers in sixteenth-century editions of the works […]