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NB the list is updated, but not complete

Syllabus

John D. Peters, Yale University: “Authoritative Texts, Paper Machines, and Media

Theory”

Required reading:

John Durham Peters, The Marvellous Clouds: Towards a Philosophy of Elemental Media,

Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2015: "Introduction: In Medias

Res" (pp. 1-12) and Chapter 1 "Understanding Media" (pp. 13-52).

Suggested readings:

John Durham Peters, The Marvellous Clouds, Chapter 7.

Kristin B. Aavitsland, “The Authority of the Word in Ecclesiastical Space: Script, Image,

Liturgy”

Required reading:

Garipzanov, Ildar. “The Rise of Graphicacy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages”,

Viator 46, 2 (2015): 1–22.

Suggested readings:

Aavitsland, Kristin B. “Visual splendor and verbal argument in Romanesque golden altars”, in:

Karlsen Seim, T. & Aavitsland, K. B. (eds.). Inscriptions in Liturgical Spaces, Acta ad

archaologiam et artium storiam pertinentia 23/9 (2011), Roma: Bardi Editore: 205–225.

Arnulf, Arwed. Versus ad picturas : Studien zur Titulusdichtung als Quellengattung der

Kunstgeschichte von der Antike bis zum Hochmittelalter. Kunstwissenschaftliche Studien,

vol. 72. Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1997.

Favreau, Robert. Epigraphie médiévale. L’ateliér médiéviste, 5. Turnhout : Brepols, 1997.

Kendall, Calvin B. The Allegory of the Church. Romanesque Portals and Their Verse

Inscriptions, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998.

Stratford, Neil. «Verse Tituli and Romanesque Art », in Colum Hourihane(ed.), Romanesque Art

and Thought in the Twelfth Century. Essays in Honor of Walter Cahn, Princeton: Penn

State University Press, 2008: 136–153.

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Ellen Krefting, “Practicing Enlightenment. The Role of Periodicals in Eighteenth-Century

Denmark-Norway”

Required reading:

Immanuel Kant, “Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?”, originally published in

German in Berlinische Monatsschrift, December 1784, available in full text online, for

example here: https://archive.org/details/AnswerTheQuestionWhatIsEnlightenment

Suggested readings:

Darnton, Robert, “What is the History of Books” [1982], republished in Darnton, The Case for

Books. Past, Present and Future, NY: Public Affairs Books, 2009.

Krefting, Ellen, Aina Nøding and Mona Ringvej (eds.), 2015, Eighteenth Century Periodicals as

Agents of Change. Perspectives on Northern Enlightenment, Leiden: Brill.

Siskin, Clifford and William Warner (eds.), 2009, This is Enlightenment, Chicago: University of

Chicago Press.