Below you will find links to research posts written by Yale graduate students in Professor Marisa Bass’s Fall 2024 History of Art graduate seminar “The Mind of the Book” (HSAR 620).
 
This seminar offered an art-historical approach to the early modern book from the dawn of the printing press through the seventeenth century. Students examine the interrelation of manuscript and print, collaborations among publishers, authors, and artists, and major early modern genres of visual and intellectual production (such as emblem books, natural history treatises, and cartographic atlases). Topics included the role of frontispieces, paratexts, illustration, annotation, and the idea of the book as a “body” of thought. All meetings were in Beinecke Library and centered on close firsthand study of the books themselves. The focus was on early modern Europe, but students were welcome to pursue research topics on early modern books from any cultural sphere.

The Mind of the Book (HSAR 620): Student Research Posts

Ankush Arora:  Mapping Britain’s India (Taylor 305)

Kendra Brewer:  Where Words and Images Meet (WA MSS S-2533)

Gabriel Haberberg:  Dutch Brazil on the Rocks (Brazil CCwbr K647)

Christopher Lu:  Her Sexual Riddle (GEN MSS VOL 909)

Kyungtae Na:  The Case of a Basket (Ujb22 +724L 7)

Ali Hassani:  Mapping al-Qazwini’s Marvels (Arabic MSS 575)

Emily Hyatt: The Mountain as Machine (Italian Festivals 3)

Madeleine Trépanier:  Race and the English Emblem (Vanderbilt 178)