IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 627: Texts and Identities, V: Carolingian Readers - Scholarly Culture in the Light of Manuscripts
Tuesday 8 July 2014, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht / Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
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| Organisers: | E. T. Dailey, Amsterdam University Press / Arc Humanities Press / Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo Gerda Heydemann, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien |
| Moderator/Chair: | Irene van Renswoude, Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen, Den Haag |
| Paper 627-a | Monte Cassino and the Carolingian Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 627-b | Asteriscos et obelos suis locis restitui: The Re-Discovery of Classical Textual Criticism in the Carolingian Period (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 627-c | Pseudo-Cyprian in the Light of the Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | This session is devoted to Carolingian scholarly culture and textual practice. Based on manuscript evidence, the papers discuss how Carolingian scholars read, edited, and compiled texts, thus establishing traditions of learning and influencing the future reception of texts they studied. Sven Meeder begins by discussing the position of the abbey of Monte Cassino, the famous monastic foundation of St Benedict, in relation to the network of knowledge and learned centres across the Carolingian empire. Evina Steinova considers the tradition of textual criticism in the Carolingian empire, discussing how the Carolingians deployed and creatively adapted the ancient techniques and practices in their own study of texts. The processes of assessing and selecting texts is also the subject of Eleni Leontidu's paper. She examines the relation between authentic and pseudonymous works of the Church father Cyprian, demonstrating how Carolingian readers in different intellectual and monastic contexts (re)constructed the corpus of his writings in different ways. |