Liminal Networks: Western Palaeography to c.1100
3 June 2014
King’s College London, Strand Campus
Keynote Speaker: Professor Winfried Rudolf, University of
Göttingen
The
Department of Palaeography and Manuscript Studies at King’s College London is
pleased to announce a call for papers for its first post-graduate conference on
Western Palaeography to c. 1100. This one-day, interdisciplinary event
seeks to foster and encourage the pursuit of late antique and early medieval
paleography studies amongst a younger generation of future scholars.
The
conference seeks to explore the multivalent approaches that western European
cultures took to book production, whilst also exploring the intercultural
connections that influenced each other in the development of each culture’s
unique forms of manuscript production. We welcome paper abstracts from
postgraduate and post-doctoral researchers in all relevant disciplines to
submit papers that are related to, but not limited, any of the following
topics:
- Book production in the early medieval world
- Development and Nuances of ‘National’ Script Systems
- Analyses of scriptoria production
- Intercultural manuscript networks and transmissions of texts
- Political implications of script usage
- Script development, reform, and change
- Famous scribes and their work
- Influence of early medieval scripts and book production in later centuries
- The role of palaeography in modern literary teaching
- Past approaches to late antique and early medieval palaeography
- Digitization efforts of late antique and early medieval manuscripts
We also encourage paper submissions covering a variety of
geographic areas in late antique to early medieval Western Europe.
Please send
a 200 word abstract (in English) for a twenty-minute paper and a short
biography to palaeographyconference2014@gmail.com by 3rd March.
Organizing
committee: Colleen M. Curran (KCL), Christine Bobbit Voth (Cambridge), and
Professor Julia Crick (KCL)
This
conference is generously supported by funds provided by King’s College London.
Source de l'information : DigiPal