Since 1986, the Kresge Art Museum Medieval Symposium has sponsored a series of presentations by important international scholars in medieval studies. Art into Life offers a selection of the presentations all focusing on medieval book production, fourteenth-century manuscripts, a…
"Between roughly 1350 and 1500, the English vernacular became established as a language of literary, bureaucratic, devotional and controversial writing; metropolitan artisans formed guilds for the production and sale of books for the first time; and Gutenberg's and eventually Ca…
"Rich authoritative study of the book before Gutenberg. Nearly 200 photographic facsimiles of priceless documents. Comprehensive."--Publisher's description.
"Drawing on research into the book-production records of twelve publishers - including George Bell et Son, Richard Bentley, William Blackwood, Chatto et Windus, Oliver et Boyd, Macmillan, and the book printers William Clowes and TetA Constable - taken at ten-year intervals from …
"Drawing on research into the book-production records of twelve publishers - including George Bell & Son, Richard Bentley, William Blackwood, Chatto & Windus, Oliver & Boyd, Macmillan, and the book printers William Clowes and T & A Constable - taken at ten-year intervals from 18…