IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1635: Early Medieval Manuscripts between the Genres, II
Thursday 9 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Organisers: | Mateusz Fafinski, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin Anna Gehler, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Helmut Reimitz, Department of History, Princeton University |
| Paper 1635-a | Like Father, like Father: Manuscript Groupings and Other Measures to Define the Early Medieval Church Fathers (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Theology |
| Paper 1635-b | Early Medieval Manuscripts between the Genres: The Case of Jurisprudential Works of Adab al-Qādi in Islam and Judaism (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1635-c | Defining Chronicles: Comparing Cuneiform Chronicles and Early Medieval Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | Manuscripts as objects are vital to understanding the texts they contain. This session aims to take a look at manuscripts across the borders of Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. By looking at Hebrew manuscripts created in a Muslim environment and at the reception of Jewish historians' manuscripts in the Early Middle Ages this session examines the manuscript as a transcultural object. Moreover, the session offers a more global view of what we understand as 'manuscript cultures' by looking across the boundaries of manuscripts forms themselves by examining the approaches to how objects containing texts from the Ancient Near East could be seen as manuscripts. |