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Hannah Hunter-Parker (Amherst College) Five College Seminar in Book History

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"Vanishing with a Trace: Medieval Manuscripts in the Age of Lithography".

Hannah Hunter-Parker is an Assistant Professor of German at Amherst College, where she teaches on topics in German and European cultural history from the first through the twenty-first centuries. Her current project, Old Books, New Times: Medieval Manuscripts and German Literature, 1743-1851, explains the “rediscovery” of medieval literature by German writers of the period as an effect of specific media practices. Old Books, New Times follows the lives of medieval manuscripts and other old and unusual book objects into modernity, across different epochs, institutions, and writers in German. What emerges is a surprising story of old books in new times, always at the forefront of technological change.

This talk will be held online. RSVP here.