The conference on Manuscript and Medium will explore manifold aspects of medieval manuscripts in all their physicality and in an interdisciplinary context
This conference is devoted to current concern with manuscripts in all their physicality. Across the disciplines, investigators delight in the sometimes untidy, often beautiful, pages of manuscripts—bound as apparently heterogenous miscellanies, glossed and amended over the centuries, enhanced with illuminations or with printed illustrations latterly pasted in. We will be presenting papers on the topics of technical investigations of production; manuscripts and monastic communities; image and text on the manuscript page; Jewish-Christian relations and sacred books; Islam, the west, and manuscripts; manuscripts as stand-ins for sacred or political figures; the hybrid manuscript-print codex in the age of incunabula; accessibility and immateriality of the manuscript in the digital age.
Email: medievals@fordham.edu
The Conference will be held at Fordham’s Lincoln Center Campus:
Leon Lowenstein Center
113 W. 60th St.
New York, NY 10023
05.03.2016 -06.03.2016
PROGRAMME:
Plenary: Jessica Brantley (Dept. of English, Yale University)
Chair: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Medieval Mediations
Concurrent Sessions
2.A Manuscripts in the Digital Age
Chair: Laura Morreale, Fordham University
- Hannah Busch (Universitat Trier)
Quanticod Revisited: New Opportunities in Medieval Manuscript Research - Matthew Davis (Independent Scholar)
Recapturing the Margins: Questions of Presentation in the Development and Display of Virtual Facsimiles - Jessica Savage (Index of Christian Art, Princeton University)
The Princeton Index’s ‘Medium’ and the Immaterial Nature of Digital Work: Manuscripts Reassessed - Martha Easton (Seton Hall University)
‘If Everyone is Special, Then No One Is:’ Manuscripts for the Masses
2.B Materiality: Beyond Parchment
Chair: Joshua O’Driscoll, The Morgan Library and Museum
- Nino Zchomelidse (Johns Hopkins University)
Vellum and Silk: The Medieval Conception of the Marriage Charter of Theophanu - Megan McNamee (University of Michigan)
The Geometry of the Gospels - Thomas White (University of London, Birbeck)
Systems of Fabric
2.C Organizing Knowledge
Chair: Nicholas Paul
- Jonathan Wilcox (University of Iowa)
“Twice-Written Tales: Scribal Intentionality Captured through Scribal Inattention in Old English Manuscripts” - Geoffrey Clement, O.S.F. (St. Francis College)
Codex Casanatensis Ms. 1730 - Sarah Noonan (Saint Mary’s College)
Navigating Unfoliated Manuscripts
Plenary: Kate Rudy (Dept. of Art History, University of St. Andrews)
Dirty Books: Approaches to Measuring Reader Response in the Late Middle Ages
Concurrent Sessions
4.A Manuscript as Agent
Chair: Roger Wieck, The Morgan Library and Museum
- Michael Curschmann (Princeton University)
The Vernacularisation of Speech in Thomasin of Zerclaere’s Didactic Imagery - Maura Nolan (University of California, Berkeley)
Expressivity: Faces and Verses in Medieval Manuscripts - Andrew Albin (Fordham University)
The Manuscript is an Instrument and We Must Play
4.B Transmitting the Rule
Chair: Giorgio Pini
- Scott Bruce (University of Colorado at Boulder)“Benedict’s Bedfellows: Reading the Rule in its Manuscript Context (10th-13th Centuries)”
- James Clark (University of Exeter)
Huius libri… sum possessor: Monks and Books of their own in Late Medieval and Pre-Reformation England - Anna Love (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Secondo la nostra antica observantia: the Commentary to a 15th-Century Feminized Rule of St. Benedict
4.C Authors and Scribes: Making Meaning
Chair: Alex Novikoff
- Marilynn Desmond (Binghamton University)
The Wax Tablet as Medium: Translation and the Composition of the Roman de Troie - Francesco Aresu (Wesleyan University)
The Marriage of Philology and Autography: Giovanni Boccaccio’s Autograph of the Teseida - Andrea Tarnowski (Dartmouth College)
Under the Rubric of Persuasion: Christine de Pizan and her Patrons
4.D Format and Meaning
Chair: Pamela Patton, The Index of Christian Art
- Irene O’Daly (University of Manchester)
‘Rooted in Humility:’ Form and Function of the Arbor Caritatis et Misericordiae (Rylands Lat. 18) - Sonja Drimmer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Late Medieval Posters and the Practicalities of Political Display - Marlene Hennessy (Hunter College, CUNY)
Maria in Sole in Late Medieval Scotland and the Arbuthnott Hours
Plenary: Flash Session
Chair: Nina Rowe, Fordham University
- Anthony Bale (University of London, Birbeck)
The Itinerary in the Codex - Molly Bronstein (University of California, Berkeley)
Rien ne m’est plus: Widowhood Illuminated in the Roman de Troyle - Yin Liu (University of Saskatchewan)
Reading with Spaces in Early Medieval England - Judith Potter (Independent Scholar)
‘Stad Bok’ as Witness in Medieval Lubeck - Emily Runde (Les Enluminures)
Richard Hill’s Reproductions: Personalizing Reading in the Age of Print - Sarah Zeiser (Harvard University)
Selecting Script: Welsh Responses to Conquest in Cotton Faustina C.I., Part II.
Plenary: Andrew Taylor (Department of English, University of Ottawa)
Chair: Richard Gyug
Freedom and the Portable Reader: 1992 and 1281
Concurrent Sessions:
7.A The Body in the Manuscript
Chair: Suzanne Yeager
- Taylor McCall (University of Cambridge)
Beneath the Skin: The Organs of a Thirteenth Century Anatomical Compendium - Roberta Krueger (Hamilton College)
Sex Education in a Didactic Compilation? The Role of the Fabliaux in BnF ms fr 19152 - Peter Boudreau (Tufts University)
Read My Body Language: the Material Self and the Page in the 15th Century
7.B Compendia
Chair: Consuelo Dutschke
- Hannah Weaver (Harvard University)
Genre, Audience, and the Scriptorium: A Case Study of Manuscripts Produced at Sainte Frideswide, Oxford ca. 1200-1225. - Elizabeth Morrison (J. Paul Getty Museum)
Intentionally Miscellaneous: the Illumination of Planned Miscellanies in the Gothic Era - Boyda Johnstone (Fordham University)
Medieval Reading Practices and the Contents of Late Medieval Dream Guides
7.C Manuscripts Between Languages: East and West
Chair: Tom O’Donnell
- John Whitman (Cornell University)
Contested Vernacular Readings: the Sato-bon Kegon Mongi Yoketsu and the Todaiji Fuju Monko - Imre Galambos (University of Cambridge)
Multilingual Manuscripts Along the Silk Road: The Book of Omens - Michael Rand (University of Cambridge)
The Case of the Cairo Genizah: Fragments from the First Order of Fustat - Cillian O’Hogan (University of Waterloo)
Multilingualism at the Court Scriptorium of Roger II of Sicily: the Harley Trilingual Psalter - Michael Clarke (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Language Merger in an Anthology of Sacred Poetry: The Irish Liber Hymnorum - Maire Ni Mhaonaigh (University of Cambridge)
Multi-lingualism and Multiculturalism in a Vernacular Manuscript: the Book of Ballymote
