IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1523: Global Manuscripts: Materials, Materialities, Materialisms, I - (Un)Materialities
Thursday 4 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Catherine E. Karkov, School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies, University of Leeds Elaine Treharne, Department of English, Stanford University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Elaine Treharne, Department of English, Stanford University |
| Paper 1523-a | Reading the (Un)Blank Parchment Page (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1523-b | From the Divine to the Digital: Digitisation as Resurrection and Reconstruction (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1523-c | What It Is to Be a Digitization Specialist: Chasing Medieval Material in a Sea of Pixels (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | These sessions aim to throw light on the production, consumption, and affordances of manuscripts from across the global Middle Ages during the period c.500-1500. Papers might deal with questions such as: What materials or processes were used in manuscript production? What ethical or political questions do these materials or processes raise? What do they have to tell us about medieval/modern understandings of matter itself? Why are certain manuscripts more highly valued than others? Why and how do some manuscripts have the power to shape our values and histories? |