The Real Story Behind Humanistic Bookwheels

Presented by: University of Calgary
Category: Other Event
Price: $0
Date: October 27, 2016 – October 27, 2016
Address: 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Website: http://www.ucalgary.ca/

The bookwheel was a rotating multi-book lectern which allowed the 17th-century reader to “spin from text to text, compare authority with authority, seek rapidly for truth in the bedlam of competing voices, while still remaining in the calm posture appropriate to scholarly contemplation. A wonderful machine for rapid information retrieval, the book wheel facilitated comparison and contrast, collation and note taking.” But did it? The real story of the bookwheel has never been told, and it is instructive. Presented by MARCS: Medieval and Renaissance Cultural Studies Research Group
Location:
Social Sciences 1015
Speaker:
Dr. John Considine, Dept. of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/real-story-behind-humanistic-bookwheels


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