Rare Book School Lectures

Paper Session 7: The Social Life of Books: Uses of Text & Image Beyond Reading & Viewing Session Organizers: Aaron M. Hyman (Johns Hopkins University), Hannah Marcus (Harvard University), Marissa Nicosia (Penn State University, Abington College) Moderator: Leah Price (Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Harvard University) Melissa Reynolds (Rutgers University) “Consuming the Word: Late Medieval Medical Charms and the Curative Power of Writing” Kathryn Rudy (University of St. Andrews) “Touching Skin: Why Medieval Readers Rubbed and Kissed their Manuscripts” Fan Wang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) “The Uses, Abuses, and Misuses of Books in Early Modern China” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.