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"""Collections in Context makes us reevaluate the history of collecting and the extraordinary importance of the invention of the codex--not the normative view that considers the invention of print to be the first major development--that revolutionized the production of the book, and not just the dissemination of knowledge, but the very production of knowledge itself. The volume's importance for the history of the book, as well as for political, social, and artistic history, are clear."" --Marina Brownlee, Robert Schirmer Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Princeton University"

Collections in Context makes us reevaluate the history of collecting and the extraordinary importance of the invention of the codex--not the normative view that considers the invention of print to be the first major development--that revolutionized the production of the book, and not just the dissemination of knowledge, but the very production of knowledge itself. The volume's importance for the history of the book, as well as for political, social, and artistic history, are clear. --Marina Brownlee, Robert Schirmer Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Princeton University

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Karen Fresco is associate professor of French and Medieval studies at the University of Illinois. Anne D. Hedeman is professor of art history and Medieval studies at the University of Illinois.

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