Friday, September 21, 2007
The Christian Codex
Alex (The End of Cyberspace) presents a long extract from Eamon Duffy's essay in the New York Review of Books, March 29 in his Information technologies in the past. Duffy reviewed two books that share a:
Anthony Grafton and Megan Williams, Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 367 pp., $29.95
Megan Hale Williams, The Monk and the Book: Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship,University of Chicago Press, 315 pp., $45.00 ¶ 2:42 PM
[to Del.icio.us]
single perception. Early Christianity was more than a new religion: it brought with it a revolutionary shift in the information technology of the ancient world. That shift was to have implications for the cultural history of the world over the next two millennia at least as momentous as the invention of the Internet seems likely to have for the future.Since the review requires a subscription I might as well add both books to my reading list for my upcoming sabbatical, not least since I've defended similar claims in the past.
Anthony Grafton and Megan Williams, Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 367 pp., $29.95
Megan Hale Williams, The Monk and the Book: Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship,University of Chicago Press, 315 pp., $45.00 ¶ 2:42 PM
[to Del.icio.us]
