The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript: Text Collections from a European Perspective.

This cross-European research project plans to study the dynamics of a number of late-medieval Dutch, English, French and German miscellany manuscripts, focusing on the highly mobile short verse narratives they contain. 

Characterised by the migration of works from one manuscript context to another, this cultural phenomenon is ideally suited to the HERA JRP theme 'Cultural Dynamics'. In each unique, newly formed text collection new meanings are generated, enabling us to understand the cultural identity of the compiler or commissioner of a manuscript and to investigate how cultural, social and moral heritage is conveyed to new generations. 

The comparative, multilingual approach will make it possible to determine trans-European characteristics in the organisation of text collections and to analyse how new author and reader identities are created.

The research is conducted by 4 PhD students, 2 Post-doctoral and 4 senior researchers in close collaboration, and will culminate in a large-scale conference.

For full details, see project description (PDF).

Project summary in French, German and Dutch (PDF)

* Call for papers *

 for the final conference Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript, April 25-28, 2013
Utrecht

Deadline for submission: August 1, 2012

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Curso. Introducción a la crítica textual: la edición filológica.

Sevilla, del 10 al 14 de septiembre de 2012.

Presencial - Precio: 98.00 €

La edición crítica de textos, antiguos y modernos, literarios y no literarios, es una operación filológica que requiere conocimientos científicos adecuados y un método riguroso. En este curso se pretende ofrecer, tanto a estudiantes como a especialistas, la herramienta fundamental y los conocimientos imprescindibles del método estemático: se tratarán, en virtud de la teoría y a través del estudio de casos particularmente significativos, las operaciones esenciales para la fijación del texto crítico a partir de los testimonios, manuscritos e impresos, en su especificidad técnica, cultural e histórica.

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Oxford/Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium.

5-7 July 2012.

University of Oxford.

The Oxford/Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium (OCICS) is a biennial conference devoted to the interdisciplinary study of chronicles in the medieval and Early Modern periods. It provides a forum for discussions of historical and related texts written across a range of languages, periods, and places. It seeks to strengthen the network of chronicle studies worldwide, and aims to encourage collaboration between researchers working in a variety of disciplines from around the globe.

2012 marks the first year that OCICS will take place at the University of Oxford. It follows two highly successful conferences hosted at the University of Cambridge, first in 2008 and then in 2010.

The theme for the 2012 conference is 'Bonds, Links, and Ties in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles'. Keynote addresses will be given by Prof Pauline Stafford (Liverpool), Prof Elizabeth van Houts (Cambridge), and Dr James Howard-Johnston (Oxford). The conference will take place at The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies. For more details, please see our 'programme' page.

OCICS 2012 is organized by Juliana Dresvina, Jaclyn Rajsic, Ilya Afanasyev, and Hugh Reid, affiliates of the University of Oxford.

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Monastic Manuscript Project.

The Monastic Manuscript Project is a database of descriptions of manuscripts that contain texts relevant for the study of early medieval monasticism, especially monastic rules, ascetic treatises, vitae patrum-texts and texts related to monastic reforms. We provide lists of manuscripts for each of these texts, which are linked to manuscript descriptions. The purpose is to offer a tool for reconstructing not only the manuscript dissemination of early medieval monastic texts but also to give access to the specific contexts in which a text appears.

The database supports current edition projects and draws attention to understudied texts and the transmission of fragments, excerpts and florilegia. It is designed to facilitate the work of students and scholars who are interested in the history and reception of texts and who want to work with manuscripts rather than rely on modern editions.

Most pages provide links to a number of web resources, such as manuscript catalogues, online texts and translations, digitized manuscripts and repertoria. Manuscript descriptions are usually based on published manuscript catalogues and secondary literature. We hope to  replace these often incomplete and inaccurate descriptions with new ones that are based on hands on studies of the manuscripts themselves.

The Monastic Manuscript Project is conceptualized as a 'Wiki' project. Every student or scholar who works on monastic manuscripts is invited to contribute new manuscript descriptions, to fill in gaps and to submit additions and corrections to existing pages. Eventually the project will become a forum for collaborative work and the presentation of new research.

The database currently can be searched for authors, texts, manuscripts, incipits, genres, and provenances. Other inquiries, about scripts or on CLA numbers, for example, can be carried out with the site search function (below).

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Curso. Digital Editing – Advanced Methods and Technologies.

The Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE)  organized together with the Institut für Germanistik of TU Chemnitz a Summer School 


*Digital Editing – Advanced Methods and Technologies*. 

It takes place 8–12 October 2012 in Chemnitz (Germany).

The school adresses scholars working on any kind of edition (historical, philological) who have already a basic experience in the concepts and standard technologies of digital editing. It deals with sofwarte tools and more complex coding schemes and techniques zu preparte and in particular publish their editions.

Further informations (progam, modalities of inscription) can be found here.

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Colloque. Formes graphiques et statut de l'écrit dans l'Europe médiévale.

Bilan et perspectives des “Monumenta palaeographica Medii Aevi”.

Paris, Institut de France, 20-21 septembre 2012.
 

Depuis leur fondation en 1995 par Jean Vezin et Hartmut Atsma, les Monumenta palaeographica Medii Aevi (MPMA), projet n° 51 de l’Union académique internationale, aujourd’hui continués par Jean-Pierre Mahé, de l’Institut, Marc Smith et Elisabeth Lalou, ont publié près d’une vingtaine de volumes en cinq séries (series gallica, graeca, hebraica, hispanica, ibero-caucasica), d’autres séries étant actuellement envisagées ou déjà en chantier (series britannica, germanica, hungarica, polonica, rossica).

C’est en réalité un véritable réseau européen, interacadémique et interuniversitaire, qui est en train de prendre forme, et le moment est venu de lui donner une plus grande consistance et visibilité. C’est le but de ce premier colloque, qui répond aux voeux de l’Union académique internationale. Il réunira des eprésentants de toutes les institutions européennes impliquées dans le projet, ainsi que des chercheurs et académiciens susceptibles de servir de lien pour créer, dans leurs pays respectifs, les nouvelles séries appelées par la cohérence du projet.

Le colloque vise à contribuer à l’avancement de ce grand chantier paléographique international sous le rapport de la réflexion scientifique et de l’organisation :
• Bilan et prospective, au point de vue éditorial et scientifique, de chacune des séries ainsi que de l’ensemble de la collection, entre autres dans une perspective comparative ;
• Mise en place d’un conseil scientifique et d’un bureau européens, et prospection de la possibilité de financements européens.

PROGRAMME PREVISIONNEL

Jean Vezin, EPHE, Paris. Les MPMA, projet fondateur et perspectives actuelle.
 

Sébastien Barret, IRHT Orléans. Le Corpus de Cluny. 

Ignasi J. Baiges, Université de Barcelone. Propositions pour la Series hispanica.

Jesus Alturo, Université de Barcelone. Le corpus des manuscrits en écriture wisigothique.

Georges Declercq, Université libre de Bruxelles. Le Liber Traditionum de Saint-Bavon-de-Gand.

Colette Sirat, EPHE, Paris. La Series Hebraica.

Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, EPHE, Paris. L'écriture hébraïque dans l'Angleterre médiévale.

Jost Gippert, Université de Francfort. Lecture des palimpsestes et imagerie scientifique.

Nicholas Sims-Williams, vice-président de l'UAI. Les parchemins grecs de Parthiène.

Brigitte Mondrain, EPHE, Paris. Données paléographiques dans les catalogues de manuscrits grecs.

Jerzy Wyrumowski, Académie des sciences, Cracovie. La série polonaise.

Elisabeth Lalou, Université de Rouen. Support et ductus : le cas des tablettes de cire.

Marc Smith, Ecole nationale des chartes, Paris. Paléographie et cognition : perspectives comparatives.

Pierre Gonneau, EPHE et Université Paris IV. Les premières chartes moscovites.

Zaza Aleksidze, Centre national des manuscrits de Géorgie. Pour un corpus des chartes géorgiennes.

Georg Ten Vardayan, Maténadaran, Erevan. Fragments et palimpsestes au Maténadaran.

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Conference. Insular Books: Vernacular Miscellanies in Late Medieval Britain.

Thursday, 21 June 2012 - Saturday, 23 June 2012.

The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH.

The conference will bring a new and multi-disciplinary focus to the late medieval miscellany, a little-investigated and poorly understood type of manuscript.  Typically such manuscripts present a range of contents in prose and verse (literary, historical, devotional, medical, and practical texts) in the various languages of later medieval Britain (Middle English, Anglo-Norman, Middle Welsh, Middle Scots). The discussion will address four main inter-related concerns: how to achieve a definition for the miscellany which distinguishes it from other mixed-content manuscripts (anthologies, collections, composite volumes); how make manuscript miscellanies and their textual contents accessible to modern readers, including scholars, students, archivists, and general readers; how to develop a coherent scholarly methodology for dealing with volumes whose contents are intrinsically multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary; how to understand and represent the complex relationships between manuscript miscellanies.

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Cursos-Formación continua École des Chartes.

Les formations organisées par l’École des Chartes dans le cadre de la formation continue s’adressent à un public de professionnels du patrimoine (personnels des services d’archives et de bibliothèques de la fonction publique territoriale et de l’État), de chercheurs désireux d’approfondir leur connaissance des sources historiques et/ou d’amateurs. 

Elles peuvent prendre plusieurs formes :

 1. Stages

Des stages, assurés en étroite collaboration par des enseignants de l’École et des professionnels, sont organisés sous forme de sessions de 2 à 5 jours.


Sont prévus pour l’année 2012 les stages suivants :

- Codicologie théorique du manuscrit médiéval (17, 18 et 19 septembre)

- Découverte de la diplomatique contemporaine de la Révolution à nos jours (24 et 25 septembre).

- Diplomatique du document numérique (18-19 octobre).

- La circulation du livre manuscrit au Moyen Âge et les bibliothèques médiévales (3 et 4 décembre).

2. Séminaire de paléographie

La suite du cycle de « Paléographie de l’époque moderne », débuté en 2006 et poursuivi depuis, sera reconduit pour l’année universitaire 2012-2013. Le calendrier et les horaires seront précisés ultérieurement. Ce cycle s’adresse à des personnes qui ont déjà une expérience de la lecture des actes de cette période et souhaitent se perfectionner; il peut intéresser des généalogistes travaillant sur des documents des XVI e -XVIII e siècles.

3. Cours

Plusieurs enseignements semestriels inclus dans la formation d’archiviste paléographe ou dans le master peuvent être suivis par des particuliers ou professionnels, en individuel ou au titre de la formation continue prise en charge par leur employeur, sous réserve d’une tarification particulière.

4. Formations à la demande

Des formations peuvent être organisées à la demande. Leur coût, durée et périodicité sont variables. Les formations organisées pour des entreprises ou des organismes publics donnent lieu à l’élaboration d’un programme correspondant aux besoins du partenaire et d’un devis.

En 2012, nous organisons pour la Direction Générale du Patrimoine les stages suivants :

- Connaître les institutions de la France médiévale: les institutions ecclésiastiques (3-4 octobre 2012)

- Paléographie française (XVIe-XVIIe s.): approfondissement (4-5 octobre 2012)

- Les institutions de la France moderne: le gouvernement royal, la ville et l'Eglise (15-16 novembre 2012)

- Utiliser les archives anciennes pour l'inventaire, l'étude et la diffusion du patrimoine (22-23 novembre 2012).

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London Rare Books School Programme 2012.

In 2012, LRBS will be running for two weeks: 25 June to 29 June and 2 to 6 July.

Each course on offer will consist of thirteen seminars, amounting in all to twenty hours of teaching time spread between Monday afternoon and Friday afternoon. It is therefore only possible to take one course per week. There will be timetabled 'library time' that will allow students to explore the rich resources of the University's Senate House Library, one of the UK's major research libraries.

There will also be an evening programme with an opening reception and talk, a  book history lecture, and receptions hosted by major London antiquarian booksellers.

Courses:

• The Book in the Ancient World.
• Children's Books, 1470-1980.
• European Bookbding, 1450-1820.
• A History of Maps and Mapping.
• An Introduction to Bibliography.
• The Medieval Book.
• The Printed Book in Europe 1450-2000.
• The Early Modern Book in England.
• The History & Practice of Hand Press Printing, 1450-1830.
• The History of Writing, a wider view.
• An Introduction to Illustration and its Technologies.
• Modern First Editions; Dealing, Collecting and the Market.
• Reading, Writing and Sending Texts, 1400-1919.
• Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600.

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Curso. SCRIPTO: A Programme for Graduate Medievalists and Early Modern Specialists.

The SCRIPTO programme at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg aims to provide a systematic, research-oriented introduction to the study of medieval and early modern books and their interpretation. It combines research and instruction within the framework of a uniquely innovative course of European, not to say world-wide, interest, at the end of which each candidate will be awarded a diploma from Friedrich-Alexander University. 

SCRIPTO V will run from April 22nd 2013 until June 29th 2013. The application deadline is 1. March 2013.

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Manuscripts and Their Context in Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century England.

XXII TEMA CONFERENCE at the University of Houston.

October 12-13, 2012.


The University of Oklahoma Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce a paper call for one session:

Manuscripts and Their Context in Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century England

This session invites exploration and interpretation of the situation of thirteenth-, fourteenth-, and fifteenth century texts in England within the context of specific manuscripts. 

The study of manuscripts by literary scholars has risen in prominence throughout the past few decades, as seen in the work of exemplary scholars such as Andrew Taylor, Sylvia Huot, Keith Busby, and Derek Pearsall. 

As products of the culture within which they were produced, manuscripts encoded cultural meaning, communicating the social status of the patron, mapping the social and cultural reception and dissemination of texts, illustrating regional preferences and identities, and creating intertextual (and sometimes multilingual) relationships between various texts and images. 

This session seeks work from any perspective on manuscripts from thirteenth- to fifteenth-century England.

• Ownership and Commissioning
• Selection criteria (authorial, thematic, generic, miscellaneous)
• Scribal identities
• Manuscripts and place
• Construction of poetic, religious, political, and regional identities
• Circulation and dissemination
• Studies of particular manuscripts or a manuscript
• Language choice
• Relationship of text(s) and image(s)

Please submit abstracts of proposed papers (300 words), a one page CV, and any special needs (A/V or other technology) to Breeman Ainsworth by 1 September.


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Appropriating the Bible in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures.

44th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA).
March 21-24, 2013.
Boston, Massachusetts.

*Deadline 9/30/12*

During the medieval and early modern periods, the Bible was a source of worship, instruction, and entertainment. This panel invites papers that address ways the Bible was read, misread, adapted, or performed. A variety of approaches and perspectives are welcomed. Topics might include translation and adaptation, Bible illustration, the commentary tradition, biblical exempla, apocryphal narrative, and drama.

Send abstracts up to 300 words with name, affiliation, and contact information to Brandon Hawk or PamelaLongo.

The 2013 NeMLA convention continues the Association's tradition of sharing innovative scholarship in an engaging and generative location. The 44th annual event will be held in historic Boston, Massachusetts, a city known for its national and maritime history, academic facilities and collections, vibrant art, theatre, and food scenes, and blend of architecture. The Convention, located centrally near Boston Commons and the Theatre District at the Hyatt Regency, will include keynote and guest speakers, literary readings, film screenings, tours and workshops.

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La compilación del saber en la Edad Media. Coloquio anual de la Fidem 2012.

Madrid, Universidad Complutense, Departamento de Filología Latina.

20.-22.VI.2012 

Organizado por el Departamento de Filología Latina de la Universidad Complutense, los días 20, 21 y 22 de junio se celebrará en la Facultad de Filología el Coloquio Anual de la Federación Internacional de Estudios Medievales, que girará en torno al tema La compilación del saber en la Edad Media.

La práctica de la compilación de textos de otros autores, existente ya desde la Antigüedad,  se desarrolló durante la Edad Media con diversas técnicas de organización del material, que experimentaron una difusión notable y llegaron a dar vida a diversos géneros literarios como la enciclopedia, el florilegio y el compendio.

Las producciones de este tipo pertenecen, desde un punto de vista literario, a la llamada literatura de préstamo o de plagio y por ello han sido obras menospreciadas, aunque este tipo de ’literatura en segundo grado’ está recibiendo mayor atención en la actualidad.

El objetivo del Coloquio es analizar la práctica de la compilación en sus diversas realizaciones y determinar, por una parte, el alcance de su contribución al saber medieval y, por otra, su papel como instrumento del trabajo intelectual y como mediadora en la trasmisión de la cultura.

El Coloquio, por su tema y  por el lugar en que se celebra, es el espacio idóneo para honrar la memoria de Ana María Aldama Roy, quien fue profesora del Departamento de Filología Latina de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y se dedicó con interés y provecho al estudio de los florilegios latinos.

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Workshop. A book of Psalms from eleventh-century Constantinople: on the complex of texts and images in Vat. gr. 752.

Roma, Svenska Institutet i Rom.

11.-12.VI.2012  

The Ars edendi Programme at the University of Stockholm is funding a project on MS Vaticanus graecus 752 as part of its brief of furthering both practical and theoretical research in the field of medieval textual scholarship.

This workshop is dedicated to bringing together an  international group of scholars to discuss the manuscript from a multi-disciplinary perspective as a first step in the planning and development of a web-based model for its integral edition.

Written in Constantinople in 1059, this Psalter manuscript challenges the editor by presenting an intricate interaction between text and images, whose themes and captions are sourced from the ad hoc commentary appended to the biblical text. At the same time, editing a catena poses its own problems, derived from the lack of critically edited sources, here mainly consisting of Hesychius of Jerusalem’s commentaries. Sensitivity to these issues, presenting no ready-made solutions, and an openness to discuss different approaches to this complex and significant manuscript should result in an enriching experience for all involved from their respective areas of expertise.

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