IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 724: Fragments: Texts Reduced to Objects
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Universität Wien |
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| Organiser: | Katharina Kaska, Sammlung von Handschriften und alten Drucken, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Wien |
| Moderator/Chair: | Christoph Egger, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Universität Wien |
| Paper 724-a | Fragments as Evidence of Learned Environments: The Example of 12th-Century Trondheim (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
| Paper 724-b | Reconstructing Lost Contents Using Paratextual Evidence: Alphabetum Disticcionum of Master Mathias of Sweden (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 724-c | Chaos or a Master Plan?: The Process of Recycling Manusripts in the Benedictine Abbey of Mondsee (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
| Paper 724-d | Manuscript Waste Fragments: Identifying the Bindings from Which They Were Removed (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | Fragments are the epitome of materiality within the world of manuscripts. What was once a carrier of texts was cut up and transformed into mere material for binding books, covering administrative files or other purposes even further removed from the world of the written word. However, for centuries the material aspect of fragments was ignored by scholars who were mainly interested in recovering texts of lost works from these remnants. This session focuses on material aspect of fragment research, by looking at how exactly manuscripts were recycled and what we can learn about cut-up books by looking at the materiality of the pieces that remain. |