Volume 91 (2024), Edition 3

This article proposes a case study on the influence that paper – here meant as a knowledge carrier or knowledge tool – can have on concrete artisanal practices. Focusing on literate mine surveyors, it discusses how the written medium gradually...

On the wards of St Bartholomew’s, Guy’s, or other London hospitals in the nineteenth century, house physicians working or medical clerks studying medicine likely encountered bulky casebooks – which have survived to the present day in the...

My article approaches the large-scale German editing projects Monumenta Germaniae Historica (1826–present) and Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (1862–present) in terms of the particular ways in which they make use of paper. The projects, sometimes...

The history of paper is rooted in a material culture of ancient provenance which has insistently shaped cultural life since its invention two thousand years ago. As such, a history of paper is no less a study of immateriality, of the meaning of the...