The Frankfurt Book Fair
09/October/2007 Filed in:
JottingsTroubled by pangs of envy as friends fly out for the Frankfurt Book Fair which opens tomorrow. New technologies do not spell the death of the book as know it (though from time to time one wonders whether we have fulfilled Trevelyan's gloomy prediction about a people knowing how to read but unable to judge what is worth reading), but open up interesting new possibilities. In 2008 (D.V.) we shall be working with the English College in Valladolid on a scholarly project which will combine the best of classical bookmanship with some of the latest advances in information technology. This is precisely the kind of engagement with contemporary culture that the Church, including its monasteries, can help to foster.