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On parchment : animals, archives, and the making of culture from Herodotus to the digital age / Bruce Holsinger.

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"For centuries, premodern societies recorded and preserved much of their written cultures on parchment: the rendered skins of sheep, cows, goats, camels, deer, gazelles, and other creatures. These remains make up a significant portion of the era's surviving historical record. In a study sp...

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Main Author: Holsinger, Bruce W. (Author)
Other title:Animals, archives, and the making of culture from Herodotus to the digital age
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Parchment > History.
Written communication > History.
Visual communication > History.
Transmission of texts.
Communication écrite > Histoire.
Communication visuelle > Histoire.
Transmission de textes.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.
HISTORY / Social History.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
Parchment.
Visual communication.
Written communication.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The Medium and Its Making
  • 1. The Book of the Dun Cow
  • 2. Hair, Flesh, Sense
  • 3. Gristle, Stink, Skin
  • 4. The Flayed Folio
  • 5. Uterine Vellum and the Page Unborn
  • 6. Questions of Quantity: Membrane and Archival Scale
  • Part II. The Medium and Its Messages
  • 7. Parchment Inventions
  • 8. St. Augustine's (A)Theology of Parchment
  • 9. Riddled Flesh
  • 10. The Human Book and the Body of Christ
  • 11. Torah, Talmud, Tefillin
  • 12. Shakespeare's Parchments, in Life and Death
  • Part III. The Medium and Modernity
  • 13. Biocodicology: Book History and the Biomolecular Revolution
  • 14. Ecocodicology: or, Is the Book a Byproduct?
  • 15. Parchment Elegies
  • Epilogue: Digital Vellum

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