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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.

Still it’s a nice surprise and somehow appropriate to a genre which is all about remembering that you’re flesh and blood, at the end of the day and at ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Rest assured that this area of the website will mostly be devoted to more pressing matters: material texts in the news, reports back on lectures/books/articles in the field, progress ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

November 6th, 2019Applications are invited for an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award in partnership with Queens’ College Cambridge Old Library entitled: Exploring Humanist Networks of Knowledge and Reading in Queens’ College Old ... Website. CMT at

September 16th, 2012for all those who contributed to the ‘Texts and Textiles’ conference earlier this week. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

John Gagné (Sydney), ‘Paper, Time, and Oblivion in Premodern Europe’. Thursday 23 November, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English. ... Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Genetic Editing and Emily Dickinson’s Manuscripts’. Held jointly with American Literature Research Seminar . ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Thursday 24 January. Bob Groser (Bibles Production Manager, Cambridge University Press), will talk about materials and processes used in modern Bible manufacture. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

October 22nd, 2012Come and see Queens’ Old Library any day this week between 12.30 and 3.30. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

October 6th, 2017Fascinating article by Huang Yuan in the latest London Review of Books about the tightening of censorship regimes in China. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

And if you’ve just come across some. brilliant book or article in the field, bring it too and spread the news. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

February 28th, 2011Many thanks to Sebastiaan for alerting me to the work of Brian Dettmer, an American artist who uses knives, tweezers, and other surgical instruments to transform old encyclopaedias and ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and

September 20th, 2012From Adam Mars-Jones’ review of the latest Ian McEwan, in the London Review of Books:. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Created in a collaboration between the University of Cambridge and English Heritage, the exhibition focuses on the European travels of former owner of Audley End and later 2nd Lord Braybrooke, Richard ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and

Updates to confirm the programme and speakers will be made in due course. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

June 11th, 2014Lincoln College, Oxford – 23-24 March 2015. An international conference to consider past, present, and future critical trends in Donne Studies. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

15 October–Discussion of Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 45/3 (2015), ‘The Renaissance Collage’. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

can see angels bringing the news on the rocky hills in the background. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

and miscellaneity, the role of women as ‘vouchers’ or adjudicators of literary materials, and the transmission of knowledge in these female compilations. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

After each ballot, all the ballot papers are burned in a stove, which will emit black smoke if no majority has been reached, and white smoke if a new pontiff has ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

their medium of pen and ink increasingly differs from the way in which youngsters learn.’. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

With vast amounts of material, much of it available nowhere else in the UK, and instantly accessible on open shelves, it’s a goldmine for scholar working on the history of ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

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digressions, its unpredictable eddies and cross-currents, its colourful, chancy swirl of ideas. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Palm-leaf, paper, Digital Dharma; Exploring the Materiality of Tibetan Buddhist Texts and their Transformations’. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Papers will range from individual research papers to institutional projects. More information about speakers and the registration is available at:. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

will explore three main threads: material texts, clothing in literature, and object-oriented literary biography. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

December 14th, 2011Research Associate Digital Humanities and Transferable Skills Training. Six-month post attached to the Digital Humanities Network at CRASSH. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Successful international students would themselves pay the difference between the Home/EU fee award and the international fee. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

It’s hard to assign precise dates and places of publication to manuscripts, so it’s meaningless to try to shoehorn them into a map like this. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Our party will meet at Audley End on Friday 5th July at 10, and will proceed to the library to see the exhibition, followed by a visit to the Howard Sitting ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

November 2nd, 2012Hosted by the Centre for Material Texts, sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK). ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

news that his local libraries in Oxfordshire are threatened by public funding cuts. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

paper, promise a fascinating insight into the spread of this faith and its philosophy through and beyond Asia. ... Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Answers on a handwritten postcard…). Palmer’s view of literacy is a limited one – apparently emails and text messages are not evidence of literacy. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

It will consider methodologies and approaches to private libraries in contemporary book history, and review the sources we have available for constructing our understanding. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

September 14th, 2011A great time was had by all who attended the CMT ‘Eating Words’ colloquium at Gonville and Caius College yesterday. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Personal and public piety: Continuity and change over the medieval and early modern periods. ... Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

exhibition draws upon the Library’s incomparably rich and diverse. collections of manuscripts, archives and books, some of which will be on. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

The project seeks to examine how and why images came to play such a decisive role in the production of new knowledge in early modernity. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Tim Munby pioneered the historical study of British book collecting and the use of sale catalogues within bibliographical research. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

We will have a look into that world and see the richness of their traditions. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Luke makes use of a lectern and the other two work with much more compact-looking codices. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

February 22nd, 2013The Sandars Reader for 2013 is Professor Jim Secord who will lecture on ‘Visions of science: books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age’. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

We hope to run similar events in future–please get in touch if you would like to be involved. . ... Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

The closing date is Friday 22 March. Find out more and apply at:. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Potential contributors are advised to consult the submissions page of our website for details of the submissions procedure and style guidelines. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

cow. And the facsimile recreation of the surface lets visitors run their hands across the map for the first time. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

against a background of bright cerulean skies and breathtaking landscapes, dominated by distant hill towns to which the eye wanders as if yearning to pay them a visit. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

funded events: Editing Donne. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.