Schedule

• Three-hour meetings are scheduled at 9AM-noon on MWF at the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library (RBML) at Ohio State unless otherwise noted.
• RBML will open Saturdays (July 9th, 16th, and 23rd) from 11am-3pm exclusively for our program.
• All other events will convene at 105c RBML unless otherwise noted.
• The following schedule may change due to circumstances beyond the control of the seminar director.
• Brief parenthetical author references indicate specific readings for group discussion. References that contain page numbers represent sections of items listed in the Bibliography, which contains full titles for daily readings indicated below.
• Seminar participants should plan to complete the following reading before arrival: Gaskell, pp. 5-185 (“Book Production: The Hand-Press Period”); Darnton; McKenzie 1986; and Grafton, Eisenstein, and Johns. It would be best if they were to complete the remaining reading for Week 1 before the program begins.
• The final selection of rare books for display at our library workshops is at the discretion of RBML librarians and curators.

Week 1:

Hand-printed Book Production / Printing on the European Continent

July 4 (Mon.)  Arrival and orientation at Homewood Suites

July 5 (Tues.)
9-10AM              Introductory meeting at RBML
10-10:30            Guiding principles for discussion of seminar readings, reports and presentations; essential online resources, NEH Principles of Civility
10:40-12            The Material Construction of Early Printed Books (discussion of Gaskell, pp. 1-107)
12:00-1:20PM   Sandwich lunch courtesy of The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, OSU (hereafter CMRS) (Faculty Club, West Dining Room)
1:40-3:00          Type Making, Typecasting, and Operation of a Hand Press (discussion of Gaskell, pp. 108-85)
3:30-4:45          Hands-on workshop on the material construction of books
Opening-day workshop will include a sixteenth-century English edition of Euclid’s Elements of Geometry, including pop-up illustrative diagrams; the Nuremburg Chronicle, a seventeenth-century astronomical treatise with volvelles; an edition of the influential Sternhold & Hopkins psalter printed on waste paper; Foxe’s Acts and Monuments and the influential rejoinder against it by Nicholas Harpsfield; the Elizabethan translation of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso; and a Bible which prints the Bishops’ and Rheims New Testament translations in facing columns in order to refute the latter.
5-7PM                Opening Reception (courtesy of the King family) (Faculty Club, West Dining Room)

July 6 (Wed.)
9-11:30AM      Individual conferences with Mark Rankin (smaller room in RBML, beside 105c)
1-5PM              Individual conferences with Mark Rankin (smaller room in RBML, beside 105c)

July 7 (Thurs.) Seminal Theories Concerning the History of the Book
Presentation on Antwerp’s role in early English Reformation exilic printing, with a focus on Tyndale (Guido Latré)
Reading: Darnton; McKenzie 1986; Grafton, Eisenstein, and Johns
1:20-4:50         Individual conferences with Mark Rankin (smaller room in RBML, beside 105c)

July 8 (Fri.)   Seminal Texts: Printed Bibles, Pre-Reformation and Reformation (with Guido Latré) (150 Thompson Library)
Rare-book exhibition and workshop will include Bibles in Hebrew and Greek (from RBML and library collections at the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, OH); the Latin Vulgate translation attributed to St. Jerome; sixteenth-century translations by Erasmus, Martin Luther, and William Tyndale; printed Bibles in English leading up to and including the King James Bible (1611); and more. Reading: De Hamel, pp. 216-45.
5-7PM              Reception (courtesy of the King family) (with Guido Latré) (Faculty Club, West Dining Room)

July 9 (Sat.)
11AM-3PM      RBML is open for NEH seminar participants (with Guido Latré)

Week 2:

July 11 (Mon.) Literacy, Typography, Gender, and Marginalia
Reading: Saenger; Thomas; Erler, pp. 85-115; Crawford
8:00PM         Paleography workshop (optional), Homewood Suites, 1576 W Lane Ave, Columbus, OH 43221 (location TBD)

Religious Books: Pre-Reformation, Reformation, and Counter Reformation

July 13 (Wed.) Illustration of Books: From Manuscript to Print
Presentation on Iconoclasm and reform: Censorship and Survival (Martha Driver)
Reading: Camille, Edwards, Driver 2004
5-7PM              Reception (courtesy of CMRS) (with Martha Driver) (Faculty Club, West Dining Room)   

July 15 (Fri.)   Native and Continental Bookmaking Traditions (150 Thompson Library)
                        Mid-seminar evaluation
Rare-book exhibition and workshop will include seminal late-medieval religious books including an influential early printed collection of saints’ lives, books of hours; sixteenth-century books based on or critiquing these models, including Foxe’s Book of Martyrs; a Lutheran church history dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I; seminal illustrated books by Luther and his opponents, including an early sammelband of Lutheran flugschriften (inexpensive ephemeral pamphlets); a sammelband containing Henry VIII’s defense of the sacraments against Luther and Luther’s Latin response to Henry; and more.
Optional reading: Scribner, ch. 6 (pp. 148-89)

July 16 (Sat)
11AM-3PM       RBML is open for NEH seminar participants

Week 3:

July 18 (Mon.)   Printing and the Reformation: English versus Continental Practices
Reading: Pettegree 2015 (pp. 143-63), 2010 (pp. 91-129), 2002B, 2002A, 2000
8:00PM            Paleography workshop (optional), Homewood Suites (location TBD)

July 20 (Wed.)   Re-forming the Biblical Text, Translation, and Reading: Erasmus’s Greek New Testament to the King James Bible
Presentation of a history of the book-themed story on the biblical texts, translations, publishing history, in relation to the history of Lambeth Palace and Sion College Libraries (Giles Mandelbrote)
Reading: Erasmus, Paraclesis (in Erasmus 1965, 92-106); King 2004B, pp. 37-53 (Translation Theory, in Voices); Kearney, pp. 42-84; Stallybrass

July 22 (Fri.)      Book Format, Reading, and Use (with Giles Mandelbrote) (150 Thompson Library)
Rare-book exhibition and workshop on printed books and manuscripts in the largest and smallest sizes. It will include an influential medieval compendium of knowledge; an early printed map of North America; Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica; important pre-Reformation and Reformation bibliographical works; editions of Foxe’s Acts and Monuments alongside abridgements of Foxe and a hostile rejoinder by the Jesuit Robert Persons; a 17^th century devotional treatise which preserves evidence of a parish lending library; collected works by More, Tyndale, and other reformers; tiny, palm-sized editions of the Psalms and English New Testament; and more.
Reading: Kastan 2000
Optional reading: Rankin 2022
5-7PM               Reception (courtesy of CMRS) (with Giles Mandelbrote) (Faculty Club, West Dining Room)

July 23 (Sat)
11AM-3PM       RBML is open for NEH seminar participants

Week 4:

July 25 (Mon.) Social Class, Gender, and Reading Habits in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation
Reading: Molekamp 2013, pp. 51-83; Monta
Optional reading: Wabuda 1998
8:00PM         Paleography workshop (optional), Homewood Suites (location TBD)

July 27 (Wed.) Counter-Reformation Printing and Reading 
Presentation on Catholicism and the Book Revisited (Alexandra Walsham)
Reading: Walsham 2000, Havens and Patton
Optional reading: Highley

July 29 (Fri.)    Re-forming Devotional Reading, Writing, and Publication (with Alexandra Walsham) (150 Thompson Library)
Rare-book exhibition and workshop will focus on texts central to the spread of the English Reformation and Counter-Reformation, such as paraphrases of the New Testament by Erasmus; Protestant versions of the medieval ars moriendi; a pre-Reformation Book of Hours defaced by a hostile reader; Philip Melanchthon’s influential Loci communes with additions by his student alongside a hostile Catholic response; pre-Reformation and Reformation-era sermons, including an edition of Hugh Latimer’s sermons with manuscript additions by the first puritan minister of Salem, MA; influential works of the Counter-Reformation by Luis de Granada and others; polemical attacks on Catholic traditions; English Catholic illustrated martyrologies by Richard Verstegan and Giovanni Battista Cavalieri; treatises on the burning of books; and more.
Reading: Walsham 2016
Optional reading: Rankin 2019
1-2PM              Concluding roundtable discussion concerning ways of presenting our findings in teaching and scholarship.
7:30PM            Banquet and Celebration (location TBD) (with Alexandra Walsham)

July 30 (Sat.)    Departure