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The macabre practice of binding books in human skin sounds like the
stuff of horror movies but was actually perpetrated by well-respected
doctors in the 19th century, a practice now known as anthropodermic
bibliopegy. Would you know a human skin book if you held one in your
hand?
Please join librarian and author Megan Rosenbloom as she discusses her debut
bestselling book, Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation in the Science
and History of Books Bound in Human Skin, and how her interdisciplinary
scientific team’s work to prove and disprove claims of anthropodermic
books fits into the emerging field of biocodicology.
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