Ecocritical Book Award Finalist, sponsored by ASLE
This book of remarkable conceptionfrom bioarcheology to contemporary book art, across many millennia and culturessurpasses previous routine responses to reveal parchment as a deep archive of both human and animal history.Daniel Wakelin, University of Oxford
On Parchment has great range: it spans millennia, treats Jewish, Muslim, and Christian literatures, and matches stories of a Dun Cow with studies of its distant relatives DNA. This book is erudite and provoking by turns; an enriching, unsettling, and necessary challenge to established ideas about the literary past.Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto
In an epic sweep, Bruce Holsinger examines both the medieval fascination with this precious material and the modern fixation. On Parchment is an intelligent and engaging book that will capture the attention of medievalists and students.Raymond Clemens, coauthor of Introduction to Manuscript Studies
Elegant, capacious, and engaging, this is an astoundingly broad yet detailed investigation into the manufacture, use, and imaginative understandings of parchment across a range of cultures from antiquity to the present.Peggy McCracken, University of Michigan
In this deeply researched and creative book, distinguished medievalist and novelist Bruce Holsinger grapples with the manifold ways in which humans have literally enrolled animals in the task of memorializing the past. This book puts conversations about archival methods and historical memory in direct contact with the natural sciences, and it does so in ways that are deeply important for the humanities.Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library
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