#  HIST E-1151 History of the Book and of Reading (Harvard Extension School) 

 





 Semester:   Fall 

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 Year offered:  2017 

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 Link: [Course Website](https://www.extension.harvard.edu/academics/courses/history-book-reading/15520) 

 

 

 

 [Ann Blair](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/ann-blair)

 Online

 The advent of digital communications has prompted questions about how change in the technology of communication affects authors, readership, intellectual property and the business of publishing. By studying the long history of written forms, this course provides students with historical context for grappling with these questions. We consider major developments from the papyrus scroll to the web, with a special emphasis on the impact of printing in early modern Europe, from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Major themes include the economic and technical conditions governing book production and trade; the changing economic and legal conditions of authorship; and the social and intellectual contexts of reading and their impacts. The recorded lectures are from the [ Faculty of Arts and Sciences](http://www.fas.harvard.edu/home/) course History 1318.



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Past Harvard Courses ](/course-categories/harvard-course)
- [ AY 2017/2018 ](/course-categories/ay-20172018-0)
- [ Fall 2017 ](/course-categories/fall-2017-0)