Description
This 10-week course will use the multidisciplinary field of book history to explore how medieval and early modern people used different media-theological texts, maps, letters, travel narratives, reference works, literature, and more- to make sense of a changing world. Through lectures, discussions, and interactive workshops with faculty from CRS consortium institutions, participants will learn how book history can illuminate the ways in which premodern people used religion, science, art, and technology to grapple with new economic, intellectual, and cultural challenges in a rapidly-expanding global community.
This course may be taken for credit or no credit. Accepted participants will be responsible for making the necessary arrangements with their home institution.
Guest Speakers
Brandi K. Adams (Arizona State University)
Claudia Brittenham (University of Chicago)
Giancarlo Casale (University of Minnesota)
Jill Gage (Newberry Library)
Kevin Gosner (University of Arizona)
Elizabeth Hebbard (Indiana University)
Suzanne Karr Schmidt (Newberry Library)
Julia Schleck (University of Nebraska)
Michael Suarez, SJ (University of Virginia)
David Weimer (Newberry Library)