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| November 16, 2000 Ben Jonson's First Folio Joe Loewenstein, Department of English |
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| January 30, 2001 Speculum Feminarum: Midwives, Medical Men, and Print Culture Lynne Tatlock, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures |
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| February 20, 2001 Reading Virgil in the 1690s: Texts, Images, Subscribers, and Translations Steven Zwicker, Department of English |
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| April 17, 2001 TEXT(ure) Ken Botnick, School of Art |
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| October 9, 2001 Reading the Royal Romance: Charles I's Captured Letters in The King's Cabinet Opened (1645) Derek Hirst, Department of History |
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| October 24, 2001 Package Deal: Fun with Big Little Books D.B. Dowd, School of Art |
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| November 8, 2001 The World in a Book: The Nuremberg Chronicle (Schedelsche Weltchronik) of 1493 Gerhild Williams, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures |
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| February 26, 2002 Redressing a Bestseller: The Valgrisi Edition (1573) of Lodovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1532) Michael Sherberg, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures |
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| April 2, 2002 How to Judge a Book by its Cover: a Conservator's Eye-view from the Stacks Richard C. Baker, Book and Paper Conservator |
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| October 15, 2002 Recent Trends in Fine Press Printing Anthony Garnett, St. Louis Bookseller |
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| November 19, 2002 Eumnestes' Room: Spenser's Faerie Queene (1590/1596) Joseph Loewenstein, Department of English |
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| March 19, 2003 Old World Rivalries and New World Scenes: De Bry's America Angela Miller, Department of Art History and Archaeology |
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| September 15, 2003 Book Arts Carol Barton, Book Artist and Washington University Alumna |
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| October 16, 2003 Hector Berlioz (1803-1869): Sources and Documents Hugh Macdonald, Department of Music |
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| February 26, 2004 Volney and Earthquakes: French Views of Young America Conevery Bolton Valencius, Department of History |
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| April 21, 2004 Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Friends Hillel J. Kieval, Department of Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies |
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| October 26, 2004 Lewis and Clark's History: The Book You Thought You Read but May Be Glad You Didn't Peter Kastor, Assistant Professor of History and American Culture Studies |
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| November 17, 2004 From Gutenberg to Gates: The Quaint, the Curious, and the Simply Bizarre Kay Kramer, Proprietor of The Printery |
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| February 4, 2005 The City as Subject: Urban Books Jana Harper, School of Art |
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| March 23, 2005 The Art & Science of Renaissance Mapping: Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1579) Christine R. Johnson, Department of History |
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