IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 344: Studies in 9th-Century Manuscripts: Planning, Production, and Subsequent Use
Monday 1 July 2019, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Jeffrey Doolittle, Department of History, Fordham University, New York |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Jesse Miika Johannes Keskiaho, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture & Art Studies, University of Helsinki |
| Paper 344-a | Conserving while Reinventing the Book: Two Examples in the 9th-Century Iberian Peninsula (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 344-b | The Hagiographical Collection(s) in British Library, Add. 11880 (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 344-c | From the Library to the Church: Use and Reuse of Reims, Bibliothèque municipale, 1395 (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Liturgy, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 344-d | Dimensions of Healing: Design Principles of the Earliest Medical Books at Montecassino (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine |
| Abstract | Scholars have long recognized that Latin scribes of the 9th century affected dramatic and influential shifts in the organization and presentation of written knowledge, both within the Carolingian heartland and beyond. The four papers in this session will present close studies of the material evidence for these changing sensibilities within manuscripts from different centers across Latin Christendom, as well as the extent that these shifts resonated (or did not) with later readers. This session embraces several manuscript genres, including hagiography, medicine, and liturgy, which will allow for explorations of larger questions of innovation and reception in medieval book production. |