2016 will se a series of major events commemorating the invasion and conquest of England by Cnut the Great, king of the Danes
Category: Medieval Conferences
Space, Power and Culture in Lleida 2015
The main focus at the 5th International Medieval Meeting in Lleida, will be on space, power and culture in Medieval Iberia.
Medieval and Early Modern Belief and Practice
Religion and (the Master) Narrative: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Medieval and Early Modern Belief and Practice will be held in Colorado autum 2015
Paris 500 to 1500 – The Powers that Shape a City
British Archaeological Association's annual conference focus 2016 on the medieval city of Paris
Mapping Medievalisms
Mapping Medievalisms is the title of The 30th Annual Conference on Medievalism
Producers, Readers and Owners of Incunabula
Even after printing technology spread through Europe after 1450, manuscript culture continued to thrive. Upcoming conference aims to focus on how printers and scribes persisted in mixing the two production technologies.
CfP: Reading Copy-Specific Features: Producers, Readers and Owners of Incunabula
CTS, De Montfort University, Leicester
30.06.2015 – 01.07.2015
Printing technology spread all over Europe shortly after its invention in the 1450s, and yet manuscript culture continued to thrive in the incunabula period and beyond. Scribes and printers both used manuscripts and printed books in order to produce new copies, while early book owners often assembled and bound manuscript and print material together, resulting in the production of hybrid books. The incunabulum was a product of hand-craftsmen at various stages, and each copy, even of the same edition, has its own unique history of over 500 years. Recent studies of copy-specific information in incunabula have revealed the close relationship among producers, readers and owners.
The objective of this conference is two-fold: to disseminate advanced research of copy-specific features and to facilitate further collaboration of scholarship and integration of data. In this conference, copy specifics are broadly defined as all the ‘marks’ found in individual copies: the collation, the distribution of paper-stock, stop-press correction variants, hand-decorations, binding, unintentional damages such as worm-holes, traces of censorship, and intentional marks left by readers and both individual and institutional owners.
We invite proposals for short papers (15 minutes) on any aspect of copy-specific features of incunabula. Papers from postgraduate students and early career researchers are particularly welcome, and there will be bursaries available for postgraduate students and early career researches to present their papers.
Please send proposal abstracts of 300-500 words with contact details and affiliation to Takako Kato – tkato@dmu.ac.uk – by 30 April 2015.
Conference programme
Plenary speakers: Lotte Hellinga (Former Deputy Keeper, the British Library) and David Pearson (Director, Culture, Heritage and Libraries at City of London).
Invited speakers: Cristina Dondi, Kate Loveman, Laura Nuvoloni, Ed Potten and Satoko Tokunaga.
Round Table discussion led by Kristian Jensen (Head of Arts and Humanities, the British Library).
Launch of ‘Caxton and Beyond: Copy-Specific Material of English Incunabula’, an online interface created by Takako Kato and Satoko Tokunaga.
Visit to the Special Collections in the University of Leicester Library to consult incunabula (optional).
The Conference is supported by Modern Humanities Research Association, Research Investment Fund at DMU.
The Caxton and Beyond is funded by the Bibliographical Society’s Katharine F. Pantzer Jr Research Fellowship.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Dr Takako Kato
TakakoKato123@gmail.com
TKato@dmu.ac.uk
School of Humanities
Clephan Building
De Montfort University
Leicester LE1 9BH, UK
+44 (0)116 207 8265
Sagas and Space
The 16th International saga Conference will be hosted by the Universities of Zürich and Basel. Theme this year is Sagas and Space
Heraldry and Piracy in an Age of Chivalry:
How was one to solve disputes concerning ransoms agreed and who were entitled to which coats of arms? Such questions were important in the Age of Chivalry and caused international tribunals to be set up. How it all worked - or not - is the topic of a large conference in Exeter in June.
The Bayeux Tapestry – 950 anniversary
2016 is the 950th anniversary of 1066, which climaxed with the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest. Conference in February commemorates the Bayeux Tapestry
Being Medieval and the Human Experience
Being Medieval: Archaeology, Society and the Human Experience is the title of the SMA Annual Conference 2015
Epistolary Cultures – letters and letter-writing in early modern Europe
The University of York is pleased to announce Epistolary Cultures - letters and letter-writing in early modern Europe, a two-day conference 18-19 March 2016
Romanesque: Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimage
The Conference: Romanesque: Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimage will be held in Oxford on 4-6 April, 2016
Art in the Middle Ages in Hildesheim
The Forum, “Kunst des Mitttelalters” organises its third conference in Hildesheim in September 2015
Body and Soul – AD 400-1700
This years EMREM Postgraduate Forum Symposium at the University of Birmingham will focus on Body and Soul in the Middle Ages
Table and Diplomacy from the Middle Ages to the Present Day
The importance of a meal as the setting for diplomacy is well known. Conference in 2016 seeks to focus on different aspects of such meals from the Middle Ages to the present.
Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food 2016
This years Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food focuses on Fire, Knives and Fridges