IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 512: At the Borders of Genres, I: Articulating Perceptions of the Past in the Carolingian and Post-Carolingian World - The Library of Verona (i)
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Dipartimento Culture e Civiltà, Università degli studi di Verona / Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
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| Organiser: | Marco Stoffella, Dipartimento Culture e Civiltà, Università degli studi di Verona |
| Moderator/Chair: | Helmut Reimitz, Department of History, Princeton University |
| Paper 512-a | Crossing Borders between Scripts: From Scriptorium to Writing School at the Cathedral of Verona in the Time of the Goths, Lombards, and Franks, 6th-9th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 512-b | The Formation of Perceptions of the Past in Late Antique and Early Medieval Verona (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 512-c | Perceptions of the Past and Calculations of the Present and the Future: Computus and Astronomy in Early Medieval Verona (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | In this first session on transformations of perceptions of the past, Massimiliano Bassetti focuses on Verona’s manuscript resources and continuity in its book production from the year 517 to the Carolingian period. Rosamond McKitterick suggests that one crucial outcome was the formation of a perception of the past that derived its strength from the crossing of genre borders, as indicated by Jerome’s De viris illustribus. Marco Stoffella explores the development of attitudes towards the reckoning of time, its integration with the historical past, with the liturgical year, and with the prediction of movable feasts in the future in early 9th-century codices. |