Meek Scholar: Zach Hines

Dr. Zach Hines, assistant professor of English, will present on William Caxton's Manuscripts as part of his research as a Meek Scholar. 

Description: Handpress printing emerged in a world characterized by a culture of handwritten books. Dr. Hines’s paper begins with the enigmatic “printer’s copy,” the particular textual artifact used as the compositor’s exemplar in the printing house. Such manuscripts known to be employed by England’s first printer, William Caxton, are exceedingly rare: we have discovered only two surviving manuscript exemplars used as printer’s copy in his shop. With this absence of evidence in mind, Dr. Hines’s talk will discuss what such identifications can, and cannot, teach us about late-medieval printers’ attitudes toward their exemplars.

The Violet I. Meek Endowment for Faculty Scholarly Activity was established with gifts from Dr. Meek, Ohio State Lima dean and director from 1991-2003. It supports research and other scholarly activity for faculty members. Student work can also be supported if their work furthers the work of the faculty member.