The Scribe Petros and his Pupils (detail), Gospel Book, Armenian,1386. Artist unknown, Lake Van region. Ms. Ludwig II 6, fol. 13v. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The Once and Future Book: On the Nature of Reading
GETTY CENTER
Harold M. Williams Auditorium
How has reading changed from the Middle Ages to the latest digital technologies? Did readers of manuscripts have a different relationship to the written word than readers of tablets and iPads? Kathryn Rudy, senior lecturer in art history at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and Steve Wasserman, editor-at-large at Yale University Press, discuss the nature of reading—past, present, and future.
