JRFM - latest issue on Materiality of Writing - VESTIGIA Manuscript Research Center

The latest issue of the Journal for Religion, Film and Media (7/21) is dedicated to the subject "Materiality of Writing - Reconsidering Religous Texts".

Prof. Renhart contributed an article on Materiality of Religious Books. A Brief Sketch of Sometimes Disregarded Aspects of Book Culture.

You read/download the pdf of the whole issue here.

All issues of the journal are publicly available via the unipub server of Graz University: https://unipub.uni-graz.at/jrfm

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