IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 608: MINiTEXTS, II: Scribes and Authors
Tuesday 2 July 2024, 11:15-12:45
| Sponsor: | ERC Project 'Minuscule Texts: Marginalized Voices in Early Medieval Latin Culture (c. 700-c. 1000)' |
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| Organisers: | Michele Baitieri, Institutt for arkeologi, konservering og historie, Universitetet i Oslo Bernhard Hollick, Institutt for arkeologi, konservering og historie, Universitetet i Oslo |
| Moderator/Chair: | Claire Burridge, Institutt for arkeologi, konservering og historie, Universitetet i Oslo |
| Paper 608-a | The Arnulf Affair: A Polemical Writer in 10th-Century Fleury (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism and Religious Life |
| Paper 608-b | Compilation and Authorship in 8th-Century St Gallen in the Light of Winithar's Codices (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography and Monasticism |
| Paper 608-c | Hartgarius of Laon, Poet and Scribe (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography and Monasticism |
| Abstract | The blank spaces of medieval manuscripts frequently acquired short independent texts or ‘minitexts’ added after their initial production. However richly informative, these fluid, creative interactions between scribes, readers, the page, and textual traditions have gone almost completely uncharted up to now. This second session of the ‘MINiTEXTS’ series, focuses on the authors and scribes who composed and wrote these otherwise mostly anonymous works. The papers will explore early medieval figures as different as Winithar of St Gallen and Hartgarius of Laon and material spanning from poetry to polemical writing. The session aims to provide a glimpse of how - and why - they used manuscripts and the blank spaces left in them as a creative canvas to convey a variety of messages to other readers as well as to reflect on the role of such texts in their specific social and historical settings. |