We cordially invite all of you to A Night of Manuscripts by Candlelight, hosted by Stanford Manuscript Sciences. On March 2nd, we will have a social hour between 4:30 and 5:30 pm with food and…
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Google has just launched its new e-book website in Britain http://futurebook.net/content/can-google-ebooks-make-its-mark and just as I clicked on the website a survey popped up asking me for my views…
One of the class wrote to me after our Tattoo session yesterday to ask if I thought Henna designs might be considered as tattoos. I replied that in some ways they were, but in our email exchange, it…
All desk workers are familiar with repetitive strain injury. Whole manuals are devoted to Health and Safety at Work, recommending elbow angle, wrist movement radii, and height of computer screen…
From a text technological viewpoint, memorials can be divided (as can most text) into 'official' and 'unofficial' categories, with some blurring of these delineations. The official is most easily…
Or is it? Apocalyptic rumour-mongering, rife in the media, declares that the book as we know it is dead, and that, indeed, everything in our lives will soon become virtual. This is dramatically…
The term 'text technologies' is a useful label for the history of the form and content of human communication. The field emerges from what has been traditionally known as the 'History of the Book' or…
Stanford’s Text Technologies’ major new project bringing together scholars who work on the Eastern and Western textual traditions kicked off with a three-day conference at the Stanford Center at…
According to Jerome McGann, a text is an 'embodied phenomenon', presumably fleshed out with meaning and relevant in its context. It's what we might think of as incarnate, in the sense that without…
In 2010, Christie’s sold a beautiful, de luxe Book of Hours that had been made in Northern France in about 1460. It was listed here. The book went under the hammer for £25,000 + auction fees and was…