Sandars Lectures 2022: Lecture Three

Sandars Lectures 2022: Lecture Three
Reassessing the European Printing Revolution, forty years after Eisenstein
The Sandars Readership in Bibliography is one of the most prestigious honorary posts to which book historians, librarians and researchers can be appointed. Those elected deliver a series of lectures on their chosen subject.
The detailed examination of books, ledgers, and historical library catalogues, the implementation of digital technologies, and long-term international collaboration are not only bringing to light rich and often unexpected stories, but also substantially challenging and redefining the accepted narrative of the European printing revolution.
Cristina Dondi is Professor of Early European Book Heritage, and Oakeshott Senior Research Fellow in the Humanities at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. She is also Secretary of the Consortium of European Research Libraries. During the period 2014-2019 she was the Principal Investigator of the 15cBOOKTRADE Project, funded by the European Research Council, whose results were shared with the general public in an exhibition held in Venice in 2018/19 and now online at www.printingrevolution.eu. She is the editor of Printing R-Evolution and Society 1450-1500. Fifty Years that Changed Europe (Venice: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2020), and co-editor (with D. Raines and R. Sharpe) of How the Secularization of Religious Houses Transformed the Libraries of Europe, 16th-19th Centuries (Turnhout: Brepols, 2022).