Scientific meeting
☞ External linkTakes place on: Tuesday 28 November 2017.Location: London Related institutions: British Library
Source : CERL. When Febvre and Martin's L'apparition du livre was first published, a new
research field was opened up, launching an innovative approach to book
history. Studies not only on the production, distribution and reading of books
started to appear, but also more widely on the book, its materiality, multiple
uses, forms, meanings and influences within a given society. Decades of
systematic cataloguing, the integration of records into large databases, the
development of digital tools and resources which can handle very large
quantities of high-quality bibliographical data now make it possible to
undertake new kinds of research.
The main question this one-day conference will try to address is: what sources
and methodologies are now used by librarians, historians and other such users
and what are the possible outcomes?
Related keywords: book culture,
book history,
book trade,
medieval studies ,
Renaissance studies