Drowned books and their histories: making sense of a C17th shipwreck and its remarkable cargo
The discovery of shipwreck BZN17 off the Dutch Texel islands attracted worldwide attention due to the astonishing degree of preservation of a series of objects brought up from the wreck. This paper will focus on a number of book covers that survived immersion, asking what they can reveal of their owners and of their own histories as objects of value.
Date:
18 October 2018, 17:30 (Thursday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2018)
Venue:
11 Wellington Square, 11 Wellington Square OX1 2ES
Venue Details:
Conference room
Speaker:
Dr Janet Dickinson (Department for Continuing Education)
Organising department:
Department for Continuing Education
Organiser:
Liz Sanders (Department for Continuing Education)
Organiser contact email address:
gradschool@conted.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Graduate Seminar Programme in the Arts and Humanities
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Liz Sanders
