IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1522: Perambulating the Book: 'Manuscript Architecture' and Memory
Thursday 5 July 2018, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Sonderforschungsbereich 950 'Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa', Universität Hamburg |
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| Organiser: | Hanna M. Wimmer, Sonderforschungsbereich 950 'Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa' / Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar, Universität Hamburg |
| Moderator/Chair: | Cornelius Berthold, Sonderforschungsbereich 950 'Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa', Universität Hamburg |
| Paper 1522-a | 'Manuscript Architecture' and Its Functions (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1522-b | Animating the Mind: Manuscript Architecture and Literal Illustrations as Part of the Reading Experience (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
| Paper 1522-c | Indexing Music in Late Medieval Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Music |
| Abstract | Manuscripts are more than a series of inscribed surfaces. They are three-dimensional structures which contain and display their contents in a systematic and organised way. Since Late Antiquity, the book, like human memory, has repeatedly been conceptualised as an architectural structure that can be perambulated at leisure or that can facilitate quick access to contents through signposts and shortcuts. This session explores the metaphor of the book as an edifice and the role that 'manuscript architecture' plays in the process of reading, learning, and remembering in medieval manuscripts, from devotional books to music manuscripts and university textbooks. |