Articles from category Literary studies

A keen ear for The Doll: Listening to Bolesław Prus’s famous novel

Paweł Maślona’s new screen adaptation of The Doll has sparked a flurry of debate about how we see Bolesław Prus’s 19th-century masterpiece. Critics and viewers alike have focused on the…

A beautiful shade of red. And color matters. The green color requires wearing gloves. How do you work with an old book?

Time capsules: Studying the origins and lives of books

Who hasn’t heard their parents warn them, “Don’t scribble in your books!”? Yet, precisely such “crimes” against books, committed by our ancestors over the centuries – notes, underlining, and drawings…

Caspar Waser, Archetypus Grammaticæ Hebrææ Duabus præcipius partibus, Etymologia & Syntaxi absolutus, Basileæ, 1600 (C. Norwid Library, Elbląg, SD. XVI.1480); title page with Samuel Meienreis’s signature and the front endleaf guard from the ‘N’ Psalter. Photo by Dr Dorota Jutrzenka-Supryn.

The turbulent fate of a psalter book: Scientists uncover a thousand years of history written on parchment strips

How did fragments of a book – which, legend has it, may have once belonged to the last Anglo-Saxon princess who fled the British Isles a thousand years ago –…