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Ann Blair: Renaissance Writing Tables

Ann Blair: Renaissance Writing Tables

Update: 2017-06-091
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In this episode of Houghton75, we speak with Ann Blair, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard, about the development of note-taking devices from early wax tablets to our modern smartphones. We start with an early modern writing tablet - a small reference book which also contains specially treated pages for recording notes while on the road.


Find out more about the exhibition and Houghton Library’s 75th anniversary celebrations at http://houghton75.org/hist-75h


Transcript and detailed music notes: http://wp.me/p7SlKy-w1


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From La Luna (Ensemble for 17th Century Music), Wild Boar Records, WLBR 9605.

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Ann Blair: Renaissance Writing Tables

Ann Blair: Renaissance Writing Tables

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