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BDMS: History of the Book 2: 'A Life of Their Own': Books and Historical objects

Vak
2010-2011

Admission Requirements

None.

Description

Although printed books all look the same at the moment they leave the printing office, in their subsequent life they obtain unique features in the hands of their readers and users. This course looks at the physical evidence of these of individual ‘book histories’, such as book bindings, marks of provenance, marginalia, traces of censorship etc. The material used comes from the Leiden Special Collections.

Course Objectives

Students:

  • Learn to use and appraise physical evidence of the use of books by working with primary source material and secondary literature;

  • Learn to write a research paper.

Timetable

The timetable will be available from July 1 onwards on the Department website. Timetable

Mode of Instruction

Seminars; presentations.

Assessment

Written paper.

Blackboard

This course is supported by Blackboard.

Reading list

To be announced.

Registration

Students can register through uSis.
Exchange and Study Abroad students, please see the Study in Leiden website for information on how to apply.

Contact information

Department of Book and Digital Media Studies, P.N. van Eyckhof 4, building 1168, room 102c, tel. 071 527 2144, email: bookstudies@hum.leidenuniv.nl ; p.g.hoftijzer@hum.leidenuniv.nl.