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

    Time
    3:00 - 5:00 pm    10/27/2026
    Location
    Main Library Room 346 — 1408 W. Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801

    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.