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The Long History of Amanuenses in Europe, from Antiquity to the Digital Age

Oct 27, 2026   3:00 - 5:00 pm  
Main Library Room 346 — 1408 W. Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801
Lecture
Sponsor
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Contact
Carrie Lingscheit
E-Mail
carriel@illinois.edu
Originating Calendar
Campus Humanities Calendar

The techniques for making texts have changed across multiple media and historical contexts since antiquity, but a regular feature of the work of authors and scholars through all those changes is the reliance on helpers or amanuenses. Dr. Ann Blair (Harvard) will discuss the factors that have made them both invisible and occasionally visible, and the kind of work they did.

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