Now open on Level 2, “…so many horrors…”
A pop-up exhibit on Bram Stoker materials, a significant new acquisition by Rose Library, highlights the first edition of Dracula. Recently…
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Horror Fiction at the Rose
Willie Lieberman is a fourth-year student in the History honors program specializing in European Studies Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and…
LGBT History Month at the Rose
Willie Lieberman is a fourth-year student in the History honors program specializing in European Studies Every October, countless individuals across…
Women’s History Month: Celebrating Jane Austen at the Rose
Willie Lieberman is a third-year student in the History honors program specializing in European Studies. March is Women’s History Month…
Libraries, Within Libraries, Within Libraries
This summer, Emory Alumna Candice Butts 10C, was an intern for the Raymond Danowski Library. As an Emory alumna, a…
Illuminating Medieval and Renaissance Materials at Rose Library
Kelin Michael is a PhD candidate in Art History at Emory and a student employee of the Rose Library. In…
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Every Man His Own
Jina DuVernay is the Visiting Archivist for African American Collections at the Rose Library. She will be blogging regularly throughout her appointment. The Rose Library recently cataloged a book that it acquired in 2015, 200 years after its publication in...
Map Making Connections: A Map Reveals the Complex Relationships in 18th Century Ita ...
Mikela Razo is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at Georgia State University. Over the Spring 2019 semester she completed an internship with the Rose Library Rare Books unit. The “Map of Pozzuoli according to the present state”...
Alfonso Chacón’s Comprehensive Documentation of Trajan’s Column
Alfonso Chacón lived from 1530-1599 CE and was a Spanish Dominican scholar in Rome. He was an expert of ancient Graeco-Roman and Paleo-Christian epigraphy and was knowledgeable in medieval paleography and manuscripts. His work Historia Vtriusque Belli Dacici a Traiano...
Medieval Europe in Atlanta: The Value of Facsimiles
Over the past three years, a large part of my research as a medieval art historian has been on a manuscript of Las Cantigas de Santa María, a 13th century Spanish collection of miracle stories performed by the Virgin Mary. The...