Episode 90: Unrolling Books and Evolving Words
We talk about the history of the book, the reading habits of the ancient Romans, the pliability of sheep skins, and the mechanisms of semantic change that cause words to evolve over time. Oh, and we discuss Charles Darwin’s own language for his new theory.
"Codex Cocktail" was created for us by Ed Bedford — recipe here
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McCutcheon, R. W. “Silent Reading in Antiquity and the Future History of the Book.” Book History, vol. 18, 2015, pp. 1–32., www.jstor.org/stable/43956366
“In Ancient Rome” by Joseph Howley, in Further Reading, edited by Matthew Rubery and Leah Price…
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