IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1202: Books and Texts: Presentation and Readership
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Onderzoeksschool Mediëvistiek, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
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| Organiser: | Rob Meens, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Moderator/Chair: | Rob Meens, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Paper 1202-a | Reading and Studying the Moralia in Iob: Marginal Scholarship in Utrecht, Universiteitsbibliotheek, HS. 86 from the Utrecht Abbey of St Paul (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
| Paper 1202-b | Political Language during the Wars of the Roses: The Somnium Vigilantis and Sir John Fortescue's Declaration in London, British Library, Royal MS 17 D.XV (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Political Thought |
| Paper 1202-c | Playing with Pestilence: The Black Death in The Witcher (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Dutch, Literacy and Orality, Printing History |
| Abstract | This session deals with the ways in which specific text were produced, read and transformed in the period from the late 11th to the 16th centuries in the Low Countries and England. It deals with manuscript fragments, a complete manuscript, and a printed book. The session addresses a range of questions concerning these artefacts, such as: how did they present their material, what effect could the presentation have on the reader, and how did readers use the texts found in them? |