Triple Crown of Book History
Ann Blair- How Renaissance Scholars and Printers Decided on the Size of Books
Ann M. Blair is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University.
She specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe (16th-17th centuries), with an emphasis on France. Her interests include the history of the book and of reading, the history of the disciplines and of scholarship, and the history of interactions between science and religion.
Dr. Ann Blair holds the “Triple Crown” of Book History having given:
The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lecture in 2014: Hidden Hands: Amanuenses and Authorship in Early Modern Europe
The Panizzi Lecture in 2019: Paratexts and Print in Renaissance Humanism
Lyle Lecture Lectures in 2022-2023: In the scholar’s workshop: amanuenses in early modern Europe
How Renaissance Scholars and Printers Decided on the Size of Books
Dr. Ann Blair spoke on “How Renaissance Scholars and Printers Decided on the Size of Books” at the Harry Ransom Center January 21, 2026 and you can watch it: