On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age by Bruce Holsinger

On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age

Bruce Holsinger

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Holsinger discusses the making of parchment past and present, the nature of the medium as a biomolecular record of faunal life and environmental history, the knotty question of "uterine vellum," and the imaginative role of parchment in the works ...

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