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Hardcover On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age Book

ISBN: 0300260210

ISBN13: 9780300260212

On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age

A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia

"Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging exploration of book history."--Kirkus Reviews

For centuries, premodern societies recorded and preserved much of their written cultures on parchment: the rendered skins of sheep, cows, goats, camels, deer, gazelles, and other creatures. These remains...

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