The Role of the Scroll: An Illustrated Introduction to Scrolls in the Middle Ages Medieval

The Role of the Scroll: An Illustrated Introduction to Scrolls in the Middle Ages MedievalScrolls have always been shrouded by a kind of aura, a quality of somehow standing outside of time. They hold our attention with their age, beauty, and perplexing format. Beginning in the fourth century, the codexor bookbecame the preferred medium for long texts. Why, then, did some people in the Middle Ages continue to make scrolls? In The Role of the Scroll, music professor and historian Thomas Forrest Kelly brings to life the most interesting

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of literature's most well-read female characters

tropical ferns

Nicole Tersigni honors all sorts of sacred female friendships and the miscellaneous nonsense that brings women closer together

his lover Belle da Costa Greene

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Metalworker is a photographic essay and documentation about the master artist-blacksmith Samuel Yellin representing the culmination of 19th-century wrought iron design and fabrication

alongside essays on the noteworthy Count Tessin

graphic design

in a steel vault in Tokyo

Graphic Passion recounts the publication history of nearly fifty books illustrated by Matisse