ON PARCHMENT: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age

A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture over three millennia, testifying to humanity's difficult and enduring entanglement with the creaturely world. Chapters take up such topics as the making of parchment past and present, the nature of the medium as a biomolecular record of faunal life and environmental history and more. Well illustrated in color.