October 30, 2018, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1A conversation on “Dying Well in Early Modern England” with curator Aaron Pratt A current Stories to Tell display embraces the Halloween spirit with a collection of early printed books from throughout the Ransom Center’s collections that take on the topic of death.
October 25, 2018, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Digital Collections, Featured1The Digitized Dylan Thomas: The single word as thing, dropped on to the page “To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters’ – and – rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.”
October 4, 2018, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1Printing manuscripts In order to understand the Gutenberg Bible, it is critical to remember that it is a medieval book that was designed to satisfy the needs of medieval readers. Today, we expect pages in most books to be black and white. To navigate what we read, we rely on variations in… read more
