LECTURE SERIES
ONLINE MMMONK SCHOOL, AUTUMN 2023
MMMONK AND HENRI PIRENNE INSTITUTE FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES (UGENT)
17 November 2023, 4:00-6:00PM CET / 10:00AM-12:00PM ET
Mmmonk and Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies (UGent) will host the second edition of Mmmonk school in the autumn of 2023. Mmmonk School offers lessons for advanced beginners about the medieval book. It is an interdisciplinary practice-focused programme about medieval Flemish manuscripts. Six experts introduce the main concepts, skills and methods of their given field of expertise. The lessons are online, free and open for everyone.
Elaine Treharne (Stanford University), The human experience as an integral part of the history and identity of a book, 4-5 pm CET
This session takes as its starting point an understanding that a medieval book is a whole object at every point of its long history. As such, medieval books can be studied most profitably in a holistic manner as objects-in-the-world. This means readers might profitably account for all aspects of the manuscript in their observations, from the main texts that dominate the codex to the marginal notes, glosses, names, and interventions made through time. This holistic approach allows us to tell the story of the book's life from the moment of its production to its use, collection, breaking-up, and digitization--all aspects of what can be termed 'dynamic architextuality'. (Source)
Elaine Treharne is Roberta Bowman Denning Professor at Stanford University. She is a medievalist with specializations in manuscript studies, archives, information technologies, and early British literature. Her current projects focus on the book as object and the long history of Text Technologies. She researches the hapticity and phenomenology of the medieval book, and has published Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal Book with Oxford University Press in 2021. Her newest work concerns the application of machine learning and AI to investigate medieval manuscripts and the transmission of textual culture. (Source)
Ann Kelders (KBR Royal Library Belgium), An Introduction to Polyphony Manuscripts in Medieval Flanders and Brabant, 5-6 PM CET
(Abstract and biography to follow shortly)
Join us on three consecutive Fridays (4-6pm CET) in November and December!
To Register: https://brugge.bibliotheek.be/formulier/mmmonk-school-2023
For More Information: https://www.mmmonk.be/en/news/mmmonk-school-2023-programme-and-registration