Paper is the main tool of communication in fifteenth-century England. The Paston family’s letters and network of acquaintances show that paper had made the transition from being a technological novelty to becoming a familiar tool, an essential instrument in everyday life.
Paola Ricciardi offers two sessions at the CILIP Rare Books & Special Collections Group 2021 annual study conference on what heritage science analytical techniques can now offer and which technique might best be used to answer different research questions or analyse different materials.
Dr Paola Ricciardi, PI of the CHERISH Project and one of the leads on the Materiality Research Growth Network, will present: "The precarious life of the Great Bible Part 2: Analyses" as part of a two-talk panel on 'The precarious life of the Great Bible', at the Early Book Society XVII Bienn