Int. Workshop: "Scribal Culture in Italy, 1450 - 1650"
- Ort: Manchester; Oxford; London
- Beginn: 03.07.09
- Ende: 20.11.09
- Disziplinen: Literaturwissenschaft, Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft
- Sprachen: Italienisch
Details of Workshops 4 and 5 in the AHRC-funded series, planned to shed light on the still under-researched topic of scribal culture in Italy, are given below. These workshops are open to all and we welcome participation by all those interested in early modern Italy and in the history of the book in early modern Europe, and by librarians, curators and palaeographers. There is a small number of postgraduate bursaries to cover all or part of the cost of attendance. There is no charge for attendance but space is limited. To reserve a place or for more information, please contact Filippo de Vivo (f.de-vivo@bbk.ac.uk) or Brian Richardson (b.f.richardson@leeds.ac.uk). For abstracts of the papers and further information on the project, see www.bbk.ac.uk/hca/about/conferences/scribalculture
WORKSHOP 4: PRINT AND MANUSCRIPT
John Rylands University Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3EH
Seminar Room, Level 3
Friday 3 July 2009
How did manuscript texts influence or adapt to the diffusion of printed texts? When they coexisted, were they complementary or competing?
Please note that some talks will be given in Italian.
For directions to the Library, see www.library.manchester.ac.uk/specialcollections/yourvisit/
findingus. All participants should check in at the reception desk on arrival. Bags must be left in the lockers in the basement. Those who would like an initial guided walk around the Library should meet at the reception desk at 13.15.
13.45 Introduction (Seminar Room, Level 3)
Chair: Professor Stephen Milner (Manchester)
13.50 Professor David Gentilcore (Leicester): A charlatan’s knowledge: licence petitions, printed handbills and medical authority in early modern Italy
14.20 Professor Ottavia Niccoli (Trento): Manoscritti, oralità, stampe popolari: i viaggi di un testo
14.50 Professor Mario Infelise (Venice): The invention of the political ‘avviso’: from handwritten newsletters to printed gazettes (15th-17th centuries)
15.20 Discussion
16.00 Presentation of a selection of Rylands manuscripts and early printed editions
WORKSHOP 5: THE IMPACT AND DIFFUSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
New Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG
Seminar Room
Friday 30 October 2009
How inclusive was the distribution of different kinds of manuscripts? Could manuscripts act as channels for the distribution of popular literature? How did attitudes to manuscript texts vary across the social scale?
14.00 Introduction
Chair: Professor Martin McLaughlin (Oxford)
14.05 Professor Federico Barbierato (Verona): Writing, reading, writing: scribal culture and magical texts in early modern Venice
14.35 Professor Nick Wilding (American Academy, Rome and Georgia State University): Manuscripts in motion: the diffusion of Galilean Copernicanism
15.05 Dr Warren Boutcher (Queen Mary, London): Collecting manuscripts and printed books in the late Renaissance: the case of the last Duke of Urbino
15.35 Discussion
16.15 Presentation of manuscripts from the Bodleian Library (subject to confirmation)
The final workshop will be held at the British Library, London, on Friday 20 November 2009, 14.00-17.00, on the theme of ‘Cataloguing (political) manuscripts’.
Publiziert von: Kai Nonnenmacher