Myra Seaman

Objects of Affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection known as Oxford, Bodleian Library Manuscript Ashmole 61. Exploring how the inhabitants of the book's pages—human and nonhuman, tangible and intangible—collaborate with its readers then and now, this book addresses the manuscript's material appeal in the ways it binds itself to...