Staff of the Manuscript and Serial & Government Publications divisions will hold a roundtable discussion with three comic studies scholars who will make brief presentations on current research, and discuss psychiatrist Fredric Wertham’s anti-comics legacy.
Read MoreIn 1546, Charlotte Guillard (ca. 1485–1557) owned one of the most prestigious printing houses in Paris, the Soleil d’Or, and that year she printed an impressive, updated edition of the letters of Saint Jerome under her own name. The editor and commentator of this particular book, however, was the famous Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus (1468?-1536), whose published annotations on Jerome had been censured by the Venetian Inquisition and the Index of the University of Paris two years prior.
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