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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.

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.

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January 4th, 2014One of the broadsheets found in their archive this sorry story of a witness in a law case and the ‘foul Testament’ from which she contracted a ‘malignant itch’ ... 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 Mail (will not be published) (required).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.

February 13th, 2012The Counterculture Research Group is an interdisciplinary series of seminars, lectures and associated events that focuses the multiple artistic, historical and social manifestations of the countercultural impetus. ... Website. CMT

uk). 13 October, John Rink (Faculty of Music), ‘The Virtual Chopin’. 10 November, Linda Bree (Cambridge University Press), ‘Scholarly Publishing and Technological Change’. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Texts (University of Cambridge) present:. BOOK PUBLISHING HISTORIES SEMINAR SERIES. Seminar II: The Impact of Digital Publishing Platforms for Academic Scholarship on Libraries and Readers. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

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.

December 29th, 2011Books for children are often some of the most experimental when it comes to physical form and the material potential of paper and card. ... 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.

Now radiocarbon dating has established that these leaves date from AD568-645, making them almost contemporaneous with the death of the prophet Muhammed in AD632, and challenging existing scholarly accounts of ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News

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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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.

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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but were guided by an aesthetic sense to fashion and refashion literary narrative itself. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

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.

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.

hard to distinguish closets from studies, and the fluidity of room usage may muddy the waters still further. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

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.

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.

www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/news/conferences/writing_britain. ... 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.

Recent histories of the book have replaced earlier narratives of technological triumph and revolutionary change with a more tentative story of continuities with manuscript culture and the instability of print. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News

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.

March 8th, 2012I needed to check something in Andrew Marvell’s ‘Upon Appleton House’, and, not having my volume of Marvell’s poetry to hand, did what any PhD student would ... 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.

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.

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

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.

The expected start date for the position is between October and December 2024. ... CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

for the Walt Whitman Archive (whitmanarchive.org) and Civil War Washington (civilwardc.org). ... 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.

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.

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.

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.