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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.

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.

It’s from an account book compiled in 1597, and it’s a double disaster–an illegible name and a deletion. ... Post any replies, please! CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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explored the extraordinary diffusion of Italian paper across late medieval and early modern Europe. ... 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.

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.

I click on the link and get a truly mouthwatering array of bargains. ... 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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