Website: https://booksilkroads.library.utoronto.ca/
Description: The Book and the Silk Roads project maps connections between parts of the premodern world by describing the technology of the book. We aim to challenge a too-familiar history, in which Gutenberg’s moveable type and our own era’s digital communication technologies are the natural outcomes of a triumphant Western tradition that began with Christian Rome’s invention of the codex. A more global approach to premodern book history transforms the story of human communications by revealing networks of human relationships—as well as technological and material entanglements—that knit together our premodern world.
Contributors:
- Alexandra Gillespie, Vice-President & Principal, University of Toronto Mississauga; Professor, Department of English and Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
- Sian Meikle, Associate Chief Librarian for Digital Strategies and Technology, University of Toronto
- Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Professor, Medieval Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
- Jessica Lockhart, Head of Research, Old Books New Science Lab, University of Toronto
- Rachel Di Cresce, Digital Project Librarian, University of Toronto Information Technology Services
- Merium Khan, Old Books New Science Lab Manager, and Administrative Assistant for The Book and the Silk Roads Project, University of Toronto Mississauga
- Shibo Liu, Software Engineer, University of Toronto
- Imran Asghar, Software Engineer, University of Toronto
- James Malinowski, Research Administrator, Old Books New Science Lab and Human Resources, The Book and the Silk Roads Project
- J. D. Sargan, Postdoctoral Fellow
Funders: Mellon Foundation