IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1308: Cross-Cultural Studies of the Book in the Global Middle Ages, II: Keeping, Using, and Destroying Books
Wednesday 6 July 2016, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages (CeSMA), University of Birmingham / Program in Medieval Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
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| Organisers: | Arezou Azad, School of History & Cultures, University of Birmingham William Purkis, Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages (CeSMA), University of Birmingham |
| Moderator/Chair: | Wendy Scase, Department of English, University of Birmingham |
| Paper 1308-a | St Margaret of Scotland's Gospel Book (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Lay Piety, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1308-b | Rethinking the Courtly Scenes in the Macclesfield Psalter (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Lay Piety, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Sexuality |
| Paper 1308-c | Postmedieval Responses to 15th-Century Medica (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Abstract | This strand of two sessions will compare and contrast studies of the book across cultures in the global Middle Ages. The second session, ‘Keeping, Using and Destroying Books', will consider how books were valued, preserved, physically handled, acquired and disposed of. The session will consider modes and marks of ownership and use, the relationships between text and image, and the post-medieval reception of medieval manuscripts. The three speakers will also reflect critically on the methods and evidence for research of these topics. |