Title For God and Mammon: An Inquiry into the Role and Identity of Medieval Artists and Scribes … Especially 12th-Century

Title Things About Which I Have Changed My Mind in Three Decades as an Antiquarian Bookseller

Title Early Printed Books at the Library of Trinity College, Dublin (But Not Entirely Excluding The Book of Kells)

Title The Interpretation of Bookbinding Structure: An Examination of the 16th-Century French Bindings in the Ramey Collection at PML

Title The Stars and the Bard: Pluto, Wm Shakespeare, the Beer-Can Launcher, and the Invention of the Hinman Collator

Title Printing Is Something You Can Pick Up and Hold in Your Hand

Background Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, Professor of English and of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and Director of the Center for the Book, University of Pennsylvania

Title Book History: What It Is and What It Might Become

Background Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Background Reader in English Literature and Director of the Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh

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Lectures

Rare Book School sponsors a number of free, open-to-the-public evening lectures each year at the University of Virginia on a wide variety of bibliographical topics; please browse our list of past lectures for a sampling. RBS lectures are usually held Mondays and Wednesdays while RBS is in session, at 5:30 p.m. in the Auditorium of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. A reception follows in 118 Alderman Library.