LECTURE SERIES

ONLINE MMMONK SCHOOL, AUTUMN 2023

MMMONK AND HENRI PIRENNE INSTITUTE FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES (UGENT)

24 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.

Élodie Lévêque (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), An Introduction to Biocodicology - The material studies of medieval manuscripts, 4-5PM CET

Biocodicology is the study of the biological information stored in manuscripts. Western Medieval manuscripts were, for the most part, written on parchment, a writing support whose origins are believed to be in Pergamon. Over the centuries parchment has been the foundation for a multitude of media from illuminated Gospels to the archival documents used in everyday life. Manuscripts can not only offer valuable information through their texts, but can also reveal information - that in many cases is invisible to the naked eye - about book production, livestock economies, handling, conservation and the historic use of the object by studying the materials they are made of. This talk will present three recent research projects that were carried out as part of the Beast to Craft ERC funded project, using proteomic and dna analysis.

Élodie Lévêque graduated with a Master's in Book Conservation from the Sorbonne (Paris) in 2010 and completed a PhD in Medieval History in 2020 (Paris X University). For the past 8 years, her main focus has been on medieval bindings from the Clairvaux Collection of manuscripts. She is an associate professor in book and paper conservation at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and an associate reasercher at the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (IRHT/CNRS) in Paris. She previously worked as a Senior book conservator at the National Library of Ireland and in Trinity College, Dublin. Prior to this, she was a Manuscript Conservator at Montpellier University Library. She worked as a fellow at the New-York Academy of Medicine (Gladys Brooke Book and Paper fellowship, 2010), and as a post-graduate intern at both the Morgan Library and Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2009-2010). She is the author of numerous publications about manuscript conservation, in international peer-reviewed scientific journals such as the Journal of Paper Conservation; in addition, she is part of the seminar advisory board for Care and Conservation of Manuscripts (University of Copenhagen). She is a member of the International Council of Museums (Committee for Conservation), and of the International Association of Book and Paper Conservators (IADA).

Thomas Falmagne (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main), An Introduction to Medieval Cistercian Reading Culture, 5-6PM 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