IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1755: Manuscript Culture: Research Methodologies, III
Thursday 9 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Michael Johnston, Department of English, Purdue University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Michael van Dussen, Department of English, Ohio State University |
| Paper 1755-a | Manuscripts Produced for Personal Use in 14th- and 15th-Century France: Scribes and Characteristics of the Books (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1755-b | Secret Writing and Cryptography in Medieval Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
| Paper 1755-c | Sites and Methods of Book Production: Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | Manuscript books are unique - but each of them also reflects a particular culture of book production and stems from a specific social context. To what extent can the study of large corpora of manuscripts enable us to generalize about the book culture of a specific time, place, and social setting? Vice versa, can we use such generalizations in trying to understand individual manuscripts? What is gained and what is lost when one scales up to examine a large number of manuscripts or focuses on individual manuscripts? What do the tools of Digital Humanities offer such scholarly endeavors? This session gathers together scholars exploring the cultures and social settings of book production from the Carolingian period until the 15th century with both small and large sets of manuscripts. |