The power of the unprinted word

Text is everywhere. Which is to say that printed text is everywhere. The Gutenberg revolution has been so successful that … More

Incarcerations

There is a meme out there about the power of books which shows a little girl standing on top of … More

A great deal of medieval architecture was inspired by manuscript art. And a lot of medieval manuscript art began in … More

If Arachne was the greatest weaver, Penelope was the world’s ultimate unraveller. The two women belong to two different tales, … More

It is a curious fact that there are no ancient myths about writing and reading, although writing had been invented … More

Warning, an unseasonal confession. As I get older, I fear less the slow approach of my own demise than the … More

With the advent of Christianity, the West was introduced to a novel reading practice, that of meditative reading. Ruminating over … More

One of the great discoveries of classical antiquity was the principle of mimesis. It’s not that the peoples of the … More

Historical sources without a good methodology to use them can be dangerous and deceptive. History has its sources, but the … More

It may be easy to retrofit a piece of technology. It may be easy to make the old work with … More