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I practice silence, that the verses of my readings and prayers should fill me with delight. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Using the library’s extensive collections, the course traces the history and varied uses of movable features, from early modern spinning volvelles and flap anatomies to Victorian toy books, elaborate ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events

Irene Fabry-Tehranchi (Cambridge University Library). ‘French and English caricatures of the Franco-Prussian war (1870) at Cambridge University Library’. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Stephen Whiteman (Courtauld Institute). “Books for Princesses and Khans: The Diffuse History of Imperial poems on the Mountain Estate to Escape the Heat”. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Thursday 25 November, 5 pm . Georgina Wilson (Cambridge), ‘“Miscellaneous Tatters”: It-Narratives, Paper, and Literary Composition’. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

A CMT 10th anniversary collaboration with the CRASSH ‘Re-‘ project, starring Juliet Fleming, Alexandra Gillespie, Deidre Lynch, Gill Partington and Adam Smyth . ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

In literary terms, each of the four gospels begins in a different way – but the drama of St John’s meditation on words and the Word must have been especially inspiring ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Jonathan Lamb (Vanderbilt University) and Elizabeth Eger (King’s College London). Worshipping Things. ... Mail (will not be published) (required). Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events.

Please email Anne Alexander (raa43@cam.ac.uk) to reserve a place. Further information at www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1638. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

The juxtaposition of baby and book makes this tiny scene at once ordinary and extraordinary, a beautifully intimate depiction of the Word made Flesh. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Here’s a more colourful image of industry and creative inspiration – a touching gift worked by a mother for her daughter, whose name we ‘read’ in the windmill. ... Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

And that it will become a model for rare books libraries and archives that currently restrict digital photography. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

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The story–for the latest on which, see http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/23/poison-pen-reviews-historian-orlando-figes–involves the use of the Amazon website for ... Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Thursday 11 March, 5 pm. The Material Text of Activism. Hilary Powell and Daniel Edelstyn will discuss their performative protest Bank Job (https://bankjob.pictures/?r_done=1). ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

And I like the way that the repeated patterns of dark stitches against a pale background evoke the appearance of written text on a page. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

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Bill Brown, ‘Obects, Others, and Us (The Refabrication of Things)’, Critical Inquiry 36 (2010), 183-207. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

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March 11th, 2011Free wine and GILES DE LA MARE on ‘PUBLISHING IN THE BLOOD’ 7:30pm, Tuesday 15th March, Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

For further details about the scheme or the events above, please contact CRASSH Administrator, Catherine Hurley (ch335@cam.ac.uk). ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

A controversially revised version of Harnden’s work is now available in bookshops, and you can read the author’s latest comments in response to this cynical and depressing story of ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

It’s one of the three parts of the DLA Piper series ‘This is Sculpure’ (the other two are ‘Sculpture: The Physical World’ and ‘Sculpture Remixed’), each of which has been ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

plus gems such as the notebook kept by Milton which includes his drafts of Lycidas and a first go at Paradise Lost (in dramatic form). ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

It promises a feast for anyone interested in material texts and the intersections between words and things. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Thursday 16 May. Lucy Razzall (English, Cambridge), ‘Thinking Inside the Box: Containers and the Materiality of Early Modern Texts’. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

The software can be freely downloaded and applied to any set of images you may happen to be grappling with. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

These seminars will be held in the Wren Library in Trinity College, and will be hosted by the Wren Librarian, Professor David McKitterick. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

June 11th, 2012All the news these days seems to be about libraries closing down, and as an academic I hear more and more of my colleagues saying that they don’t ... Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

I click on the link and get a truly mouthwatering array of bargains. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

December 23rd, 2010A few months ago I blogged about a book supposedly bound in human skin; recent news reports have reminded us about a book written in human blood. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

This seminar will be held in association with the Eighteenth Century and Romantic Studies Graduate Seminar. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

This seminar will be held in association with the Eighteenth Century and Romantic Studies Graduate Seminar. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

The contest is open to all current undergraduate and graduate students of the University of Cambridge. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

This conference takes the bicentenary of Coleridge’s Sibylline Leaves as an opportunity to reflect on the materiality of the paper archive, and processes of dispersal, scattering and recollection. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events.

May 25th, 2015MARK McGURL (Stanford University) will be talking about EVERYTHING AND LESS:THE NOVEL IN THE AGE OF AMAZON. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

It will start at 2.30pm and will last approximately 90 minutes, allowing time for questions and discussion. ... Mail (will not be published) (required). Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events.

This series will discuss the practices and principles of editing nineteenth-century literary works. ... Mail (will not be published) (required). Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events.

The exhibition is curated by Dr Elizabeth Upper and presents aspects of her research as the 2012/13 Munby Fellow of Bibliography at Cambridge University Library. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

23 October — James Daybell (University of Plymouth) ‘Gendered Archival Practices and the Future Lives of Letters’. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

archive – and when Royal Mail is no longer in public hands, a museum will be an important monument to this centuries-old institution. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Dr Luisa Cale (Birkbeck): ‘Reading and Cutting through the Page: William Blake and the extra-illustrated book’. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Inspired by the example of William Morris’s Kelmscott Press, and modelled on type created in Venice in the 1470s, the font had been used to print works by Shakespeare and ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

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January 21st, 2018Julia M. H. Smith is giving the Birkbeck lectures at Trinity this year, dates and titles as below. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Lensfield Rd, Cambridge CB2 1EW (map). The conference will accompany the Fitzwilliam Museum’s bicentenary exhibition COLOUR: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts (30 July – 30 December 2016). ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and

January 3rd, 2015Catalan image of the Virgin and Child was carved from limestone in the middle of the fourteenth century, and still bears traces of polychromy and gilding. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

5 February — Victoria Mills (University of Cambridge). ‘Travel Writing and Tactile Tourism: The Tauchnitz Edition of The Marble Faun’. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

31 October Hildegard Diemberger and Stephen Hugh-Jones (Social Anthropology, Cambridge). ‘Palm-leaf, Paper, Digital Dharma: Exploring the Materiality of Tibetan Buddhist Texts and their Transformations’. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and

Thursday 8 November. Abigail Brundin and Dunstan Roberts, ‘Italian books in an English great house library: The case of Belton House in Lincolnshire’. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.