Binge Reading in Fifteenth-Century Damascus [DYNTRAN Working Paper, no. 27, August 2017]

by Konrad HIRSCHLER

At the end of the ninth/fifteenth century, in the year 897/1492, a Damascene scholar sat down in his garden to read through his considerable library. He neither did so silently nor alone, rather he read the books aloud with members of his family. Over the course of Continue reading Binge Reading in Fifteenth-Century Damascus →