Wonderful Synthesis

Jessica Brantley teaches courses in medieval bibliography at Yale. I came across her essay The Prehistory of the Book (PMLA, 2009) and thought I would share it with the class. What she does in this short piece is bring together Leslie Howsam's "book historian" concerns with those of a medievalist. It's a great essay (and a perfect model of MLA style).I highly recommend reading it as a conclusion to our unit on medieval book culture.