Ann Blair, Harvard University
S. W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography, University of Pennsylvania
The three lectures below will begin at 5:30 P.M., in the Class of 1978 Pavilion, the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, located on the 6th floor of the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA. The entrance to the Library is on Locust Walk.
Monday, March 17, 2014: Hidden Helpers
Tuesday, March 18, 2014: Hands and Minds at Work
Thursday, March 20, 2014: Authors and Amanuenses
Intellectual work in early Modern Europe was rarely performed alone, despite literary and iconographical representations to the
contrary -- scholars worked with others in many ways. In these lectures, Professor Blair focuses on the family members, students, and servants who served as amanuenses by helping an author or scholar in the process of composing and writing.
Ann Blair is Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard College Professor, and Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Harvard University. Her publications include Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age (Yale, 2010) and The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science (Princeton, 1997).