IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1223: Performance and the Page, III: Exploring Transmission and Composition
Wednesday 14 July 2010, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | School of Modern Languages & Cultures, University of Glasgow |
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| Organiser: | Kate Maxwell, Independent Scholar, Jönköping |
| Moderator/Chair: | Debra Higgs Strickland, Glasgow Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of Glasgow |
| Paper 1223-a | Plague, Plainsong, and the Marginal Annotations of Glasgow MS Hunter 432: Transmitted Melody or Contrafactum? (Language: English) Index terms: Liturgy, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine, Music |
| Paper 1223-b | Medieval Alchemical Manuscripts: Production and Transmission of Alchemical Knowledge from the 13th to the 14th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Science |
| Paper 1223-c | Glasgow MS Hunter 252 Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles: A Dialectological Perspective (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | The third session on the theme of 'performance and the page' begins with Christopher Macklin's analysis of manuscript evidence of the composition and transmission of melodies from all over Europe designed, in part, to combat the spread of the Black Death. In the second paper Antony Vinciguerra takes us on a journey through Europe with his analysis of the transmission of early alchemical treatises. In the final paper, Geoffrey Roger examines dialectal variation in the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles, a collection of tales in which travel is a principal theme, in which he traces the journeys the tales (and their tellers) made across Europe. The session therefore considers the varied journeys of chants, treatises, and characters as displayed by manuscript mise-en-page. |