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Printing Money and Playing Politics before the Printing Press

Monday, October 2, 2023 5:30pm to 6:30pm

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A public lecture by Professor Sonja Drimmer of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, sponsored by the School of Visual Studies, program in art history.

 

The lecture examines the political power of the most widely circulated print medium in the decades preceding and coinciding with the Wars of the Roses: namely, money. It was during this period that coins became a flashpoint for political statement and sedition, and it was the nature of its imagery on its surface that sparked an exuberant outburst of responses, both in word and in image.

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Sponsors

Arts and Science

Cost

Free and open to the public

Contact Name

James A. van Dyke

Contact Phone

573-882-7547

Contact Email

vandykej@missouri.edu

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Professor Sonja Drimmer, University of Massachussets-Amherst, is a scholar of medieval European art with expertise in illuminated manuscripts and early print. Her research is largely concerned with premodern notions of authorship and authority, media theory, book history, reproduction, and the aesthetics and material culture of politics. She has also written about the incursion of machine learning and artificial intelligence into the humanities and art history. She is hte author of The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403-1476.

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