The Centre for Late Antique Archaeology, Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and the Department of Archaeology at the University of Reading are jointly hosting an interdisciplinary workshop at the University of Kent, Canterbury campus, from Thursday 25 May to Friday 26 May 2017, entitled ‘Material Culture and Writing Practice from Antiquity to the Early Modern period’.
Literacy is a central aspect of society from antiquity to the present day, but there is often a disconnect between the study of written texts and the attention paid to the materiality of their production and consumption. This workshop aims to address the particular qualities of the materiality of writing in the pre-modern period, an era in which the technologies of writing by hand were paramount.
For further details of the programme, and to book a place on the workshop, please visit: www.kent.ac.uk/mems/materialcultureweb.html