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• 1 2021-04-28T14:52:14-07:00 Student Projects 28 structured_gallery 1077344 2021-06-03T17:07:46-07:00 “Ex Libris” is a Scalar book project created by members of the UCLA History Department seminar, “Introduction to Original Scholarship in a Remote Setting: Exploring Collections at the Clark Library,” offered in Spring Quarter 2021. This seminar introduced students to methods of scholarly inquiry, with a focus on primary source materials. As a research team they applied tools and methods of comparative digital analysis to explore readers’ marks in the “Early Modern Annotated Books” collection of UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Library. Through collaborative study of marginalia and other, often overlooked, signs of active reading, they considered how minute details can serve inductively as evidence for interpreting much larger historical phenomena of the early modern English-speaking world, such as domestic life, politics, religion and witchcraft. Our work was guided and inspired by guest presenters during the quarter, and we culminated learning activities in a final digital project with multimedia essays representing selections from the Clark Library. We would like to acknowledge and thank Christopher Gilman, Jet Jacobs, Rebecca Fenning Marschall, Dawn Childress, Matt Johnson and Jimmy Zavala.

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• 1 2021-04-24T14:22:45-07:00 Introduction 23 Introduction by Professor McClendon, with a map and a timeline of annotated books included in this course project. plain 2021-06-02T13:41:08-07:00 The early modern period in Europe (c. 1500-c. 1800) brought significant change to virtually every aspect of life, although there was also meaningful continuity with the past. The events that we now collectively refer to as the Reformation shattered centuries-old institutional religious unity among Christians. Well before the end of the era, numerous Protestant denominations joined the Roman Catholic church on the religious landscape. In politics, old rivalries were intensified, and others were born, as a result of the new religious divisions.

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  The period also saw major political upheavals, such as the fall of the monarchy in England in the mid-seventeenth century and in France at the end of the eighteenth. New ideas, from the Renaissance to Reformation to the Scientific Revolution to the Enlightenment, emerged during the period as well. Members of the seminar read about, and debated, the role that the introduction of the printing press in Europe played in that process. The student projects that follow each explore an aspect of the changing world of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by examining books published in the period and the annotations made by their various owners.

  Timeline