Topics in Material History

Though much printed material is nowavailable in digital archives, students mustbe trained to look beyond this narrowwindow on the period. Manuscriptsremained an essential means fortransmitting knowledge, and theircirculation offers insight on coteries,patron-client relationships, and intellectualcircles. Current work in material historycontinues to expand the scholarly uses towhich books and other artifacts are put.The issues and methods of paleography andbibliography are thus fundamental toadvanced study in the period, as is,increasingly, a more expansiveconsideration of the objects relevant toscholarly inquiry.

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