A Symposium on Fragments (manuscript and print) will take place in University College Dublin, 17th October 2019. Lisa Fagin Davis (Medieval Academy of America and writer of the Manuscript Road Trip) and Christoph Flueler (University de Fribourg and Director of the Fragmentarium Project) are among the confirmed speakers for the day. The purpose of the Symposium is to raise awareness of the research value of medieval fragments, and to explore contemporary curatorial solutions to describe manuscript fragments and promote their accessibility. The workshop will involve an audience of academics and manuscript librarians and archivists. The Symposium is funded by the College of Arts and Humanities, UCD. For further details, contact Dr. Niamh Pattwell (School of English, Drama and Film, UCD) at niamh.pattwell@ucd.ie or Dr. Elizabeth Mullins (School of History and Archives UCD) at elizabeth.mullins@ucd.ie. Further details will be published later in the Summer. Registration for the conference will open September 1st 2019.
The Ricardian, now online
Brut in New Troy 2020
Brut in New Troy 2020, a conference devoted to discussions of the Brut tradition in all of its variety and the first scholarly conference about the Brut tradition as a whole, will take place at the University of Notre Dame’s London Centre in Trafalgar Square from 26 to 29 June 2020. In the heart of New Troy, we seek to provide a forum for comparative, multilingual, cross-period, and cross-disciplinary discussion of Brut-related texts and manuscripts, both canonical and less familiar, and by no means limited to ‘legendary’ material. The event will feature a keynote address by Professor Jane Roberts. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 October 2019. Full information is available on the conference website: https://www.brutinnewtroy.com/
Found: A Library Catalogue and hundreds of lost books!
Read all about the discovery of the Libro de los Epítomes manuscript and the astounding library of Hernando Colón in this article here in the Guardian newspaper.
New book by EBS member Margaret Connolly ~
Margaret Connolly’s Sixteenth-Century, Fifteenth-Century Books: Continuities of Reading in the English Reformation is out!
Description from the publisher’s website
This innovative study investigates the reception of medieval manuscripts over a long century, 1470–1585, spanning the reigns of Edward IV to Elizabeth I. Members of the Tudor gentry family who owned these manuscripts had properties in Willesden and professional affiliations in London. These men marked the leaves of their books with signs of use, allowing their engagement with the texts contained there to be reconstructed. Through detailed research, Margaret Connolly reveals the various uses of these old books: as a repository for family records; as a place to preserve other texts of a favourite or important nature; as a source of practical information for the household; and as a professional manual for the practising lawyer. Investigation of these family-owned books reveals an unexpectedly strong interest in works of the past, and the continuing intellectual and domestic importance of medieval manuscripts in an age of print.
Find more information here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/sixteenthcentury-readers-fifteenthcentury-books/5CF4C42F3E5C28388202DE762ACB24A8#fndtn-information
Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England: A Conference in honour of Linne R. Mooney
23 May 2019, at King’s Manor, York
With papers from leading scholars, this one-day conference honours Linne Mooney’s contribution to the study of medieval English manuscripts.
Keynote speakers: Derek Pearsall and Simon Horobin
Other speakers: Margaret Connolly, Daryl Green, Helen Killick, Nicola McDonald, Andrew Prescott, Wendy Scase, Sebastian Sobecki, and Deborah Thorpe
With a special display of manuscript fragments donated to the University by Professor Toshiyuki Takamiya
For booking details and a provisional programme, please visit the website.
Registration: £22, £16.50 concessions
Generously supported by the Centre for Medieval Studies, the Department of English & Related Literature, and Boydell & Brewer
Poetica (89 & 90) published
A double-issue of Poetica ( 89 & 90), edited by Ed Potten and entitled Association and Provenance, was recently published in Tokyo and includes several authors who are members of the Early Book Society. The volume is dedicated to Eric Stanley, who was a founding adviser of Poetica since its inception. Download full details and table of contents here.
If EBS members are interested in acquiring a copy of this and future issues for themselves or for their libraries, please contact Keiko Umishima at <keiko.umishima@maruzen.co.jp> for payment details. The product code is 0600103343.
Ian Doyle Memorial Lecture
Early Book Society 