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Online Mmmonk School, Autumn 2023

Mmmonk and Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies (UGent)

17 and 24 November and 1 December 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.

Join us on three consecutive Fridays (4-6pm CET) in November and December!

Programme

17 November (4-6pm CET)

Elaine Treharne (Stanford University): The human experience as an integral part of the history and identity of a book
Ann Kelders (KBR Royal Library Belgium): An Introduction to Polyphony Manuscripts in Medieval Flanders and Brabant

24 November (4-6pm CET)

Élodie Lévêque (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): An Introduction to Biocodicology – The material studies of medieval manuscripts
Thomas Falmagne (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main): An Introduction to Medieval Cistercian Reading Culture

1 December (4-6pm CET)

Lisa Demets (Ghent University): An Introduction to Multilingual Manuscripts in Medieval Flanders
Jeroen Deploige and Wim Verbaal (Ghent University): ‘Spotlight on Mmmonk Research’: Medieval Reading Strategies – The Liber Floridus as a circular enclosure of creation, history and incarnation

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