January 2010

Friday, 22 : Dr Neil Kenny (University of Cambridge): ‘Functions of the title-pages of learned books, c. 1550-1650’

Friday, 29 : Mme Isabelle de Conihout (Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris): ‘The beginning of collecting printed chivalric romances in seventeenth-century France’

February 2010

Friday, 5 : Dr Cristina Neagu (Christ Church, Oxford): ‘Albrecht Dürer’s broadsheets and the emerging ars emblematica’

Friday, 12 : Dr Natalie Ferrand (CNRS, Maison Française): ‘Reading books with eyes wide open: illustrated novels in the Enlightenment’

Friday, 19 : Dr James Willoughby: ‘An English library in Renaissance Rome’

Friday, 26 : Professor Angela Nuovo (University of Udine): ‘The book trade in sixteenth-century Italy and the development of the branch system’ )

March 2010

Friday, 5 : Dr Natalia Nowakowska: ‘Early Reformation polemic in Poland’

Friday, 12 : Dr Gillian Bepler (Herzog-August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel): ‘Women and dynastic book collecting in early modern Germany’