Thursday, May 8, 10:00 a.m., Sangren Hall 4715
Lost Manuscripts and Printed Books
— Presider: R.F. Yeager, University of West Florida
“Survival of the Fittest? Margaret of Austria’s Lost Books,” S.C. Kaplan, Louisiana Tech University
“Philological Missing Links: The ‘*–Manuscripts’ in the Stemma of the German Translation of Lanfranc’s Chirurgia magna,” Chiara Benati, Universitá degli Studi di Genova
“Censoring Henry VIII from Spain,” Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Universidad de Valladolid
Thursday, May 8, 1:30 p.m., Sangren Hall 4715
Personal Narrative in MSS and Printed Books
— Presider: Megan J. Hall, University of Notre Dame
“Narrating Uncertainty with Thomas Hoccleve’s Series,” Shea T. McCollough, Washington University in St. Louis
“Reading Chaucer’s Readers: New Work on Markings in Print Editions,” Hope Johnston, Baylor University
Thursday, May 8, 3:30 p.m., Sangren Hall 3140 (hybrid)
Old Books, New Technologies
— Presider: Michael Johnston, Purdue University
“Creating Inexpensive Facsimiles from Digital Manuscripts,” Robert Simola, Independent Scholar
“Anne of Cleves in Digital Books and Manuscripts,” Valerie E. Schutte, Independent Scholar
“Gazemapping and the Reading Experience of Medieval Manuscripts,” Tamara F. O’Callaghan, Northern Kentucky University, and Andrea R. Harbin, State University of New York–Cortland
Friday, May 9, 3:30 p.m., Sangren Hall 1730
Lexicography 101: Glosses, Annotations, and Word Lists in Honor of Paul Schaffner
— Presider: Martha W. Driver, Pace University, Journal of the Early Book Society
“Glimpsing Nominales Outside the Latin Grammar Classroom,” Martha Dana Rust, New York University
“Glossing The Prick of Conscience,” Michael Johnston, Purdue University
“Alien Words: Nation and Identity in Early Modern English Dictionaries,” Sarah A. Kelen, Nebraska Wesleyan University
EBS at Kalamzoo 2024
Thursday, May 9, 10:00 a.m., Session 34, Sangren 4735
Women’s Books: Owners, Makers, Patrons
— Presider: Ruth Evans, Saint Louis University
“Unknown Hands: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts and Their Fe-male Scribes,” Estelle Guéville, Yale University
“‘Annie, get your rolls’: Anne, Countess of Stafford, as Patron of Eton Ar-chives, Eton MS 191, and Bodleian Library, Bodley Rolls 6, ”Laura Melin, Courtauld Institute of Art
“Gifts of Plutarch to Mary Tudor,” Valerie E. Schutte, Independent Scholar
Thursday, May 9, 1:30 p.m., Session 88, Sangren 4735
Prognostication, Palliation, and Prayer from Manuscript to Print
— Presider: Katherine Storm Hindley, Nanyan Technological University
“Magical Writing and Incantational Speech Acts: Charms in Thornton’s Lincoln Manuscript,” Eve Salisbury, Western Michigan University
“‘The labour of olde astrologiens’”: Looking Again at the Kalender of Shepherds,” Martha W. Driver, Pace University / Journal of the Early Book Society
Thursday, May 9, 3:30 p.m., Session 145, Sangren 4735
Approaches to a Miscellany: NLW Brogyntyn MS ii.1
— Presider: Nancy P. Pope, Washington University in St. Louis
“When Scribal Authorship Isn’t: The Case of Scribe O in NLW Brogntyn MS ii.1,” Marjorie Harrington, Western Michigan University
“The Voices of the Short Poems of NLW MS Brogyntyn ii.1,” Julia Boffey, Queen Mary University of London
“Formal Transformations: The Siege of Jerusalem in Prose and Titus and Vespasian,” Kara L. McShane, Ursinus College
Friday, May 10, 10:00 a.m., Session 170, Sangren 1710 (hybrid)
Old Books, New Technologies
— Presider: Paul Schaffner, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
“Artists’ Portrayals of Book Culture: The BASIRA Project,” Barbara Williams Ellertson, Independent Scholar
“Doodles, Dates, and Deaths: Fresh Perspectives on a Digitized Antipho-nal, Trinity College Dublin MS 79,” Fiona Baldwin, University College Dublin
“Henry Dyngley’s Digital Library: How a New Open Access Platform Is Enabling the Digital Reconstruction of a Sixteenth-Century Manuscript Collection,” Melissa Reynolds, University of Pennsylvania
Friday, May 10, 1:30 p.m., Session 253, Sangren 4735
Old Wine, New Skins: Manuscripts and Books Adapted, Emend-ed, Repurposed 1: English Manuscripts and Texts
— Presider: David Lavinsky, Yeshiva University
“Claiming Translation: Histories of Transmission in Middle English Liter-ature,” Katherine Storm Hindley, Nanyang Technological University
“Plagiarism in the Fifteenth Century? Humphrey Newton, John Lydgate, and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Lat. Misc. c. 66,” Taylor Cowdery, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
“Emendation and Revision in MS Ashmole 33,” Elizabeth Ponder Melick, Lindenwood University
Friday, May 10, 3:30 p.m., Session 309, Sangren 4735
Old Wine, New Skins: Manuscripts and Books Adapted, Emend-ed, Repurposed 2: Editions
— Presider: Eve Salisbury, Western Michigan University
“Latin Surgery in New Skin: The German Translation of Lanfranc of Milan’s Chirurgia magna,” Chiara Benati, Università degli Studi di Genova
“Marginalia on the Move: Printing and Censoring Gerald of Wales in the Sixteenth Century,” Sarah J. Sprouse, West Texas A&M University
“How the ‘Bi-Sexed’ Girl Was Made a Monster: Intersexphobia and Hom-ophobia in Early Modern Textual Editing,” Bridget Whearty, Binghamton University
Saturday, May 11, 1:30 p.m., Session 419, Sangren 4735
Interpreting Inventories 1: Ideas of the Inventory
—Presider: Sharon M. Rowley, Christopher Newport University
“Inventories as Literary Form,” Rory Sullivan, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
“Inventories and the Idea of the Library,” David Lavinsky, Yeshiva University
“Person, Place, Thing: Visualizing Visual Culture in the Inventories of San Nicola, Bari,” Jill Caskey, University of Toronto-Mississauga
Saturday, May 11, 3:30 p.m., Session 466, Sangren 4735
Interpreting Inventories 2: Recovering Communities
— Presider: Marjorie Harrington, Western Michigan University
“Livres of the No Longer Living: Books in the Estate Inventories of Paris’s Women,” Katherine Eve Baker, Arkansas State University
“Hammers Great and Small: Inventories of Armorers’ Workshops,” Nickolas Dupras, Northern Michigan University
“Isabeau de Bavière’s Inventory: Reestablished and Reassessed,” C. Kaplan, University of California–Santa Barbara
EBS at Kalamazoo, 2023
Thursday, May 11, 10:00 a.m. [Session 4 (f2f), Fetzer 1060]
Psalms in Manuscript and Print
Presider: Michael Patrick Kuczynski, Tulane University
“Embracing Virtues: Visualizing an Early Psalm Allegory in Late Medieval Books of Hours”
— Jessica L. Savage, Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University
“A New Illuminated Choir Psalter Signed by Attavante, Its Reconstruction, and Some Observations on the Artist’s Unusual Signature”
— Christopher Platts, University of Cincinnati
“Reading, Writing, Praying, Compiling: The Proximity of Manuscript and Print in Middle Dutch Psalters (ca. 1480–1510)”
— Renske Hoff, University of Utrecht
“Printing Penitence: Psalm Fragments in La dolorosa passio del nostre redemptor Jesuchrist”
— Christi Ivers, University of Dallas
Thursday, May 11, 1:30 p.m. [Session 54 (f2f), Fetzer 1060]
Lost Manuscripts and Printed Books I
Presider: Sarah L. Noonan, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame
“Romancing the Eildon Stone: Scribal Dislocations in Thomas of Erceldoune”
— Corinne H. Clark, University of Oxford
“The Manuscript and the Inventory: Reconsidering the Lost Books of the Valois Royal Libraries”
— Maggie Crosland, Washington University in St. Louis / St. Louis Art Museum
“Like Mother, Like Daughter: Replaced Books as Evidence of Matrilineal Literary Influence”
— S. C. Kaplan, University of California–Santa Barbara
Thursday, May 11, 3:30 p.m. [Session 105 (f2f), Fetzer 1060]
Lost Manuscripts and Printed Books II
Presider: Sarah L. Noonan, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame
“Romancing the Eildon Stone: Scribal Dislocations in Thomas of Erceldoune”
— Corinne H. Clark, University of Oxford
“The Manuscript and the Inventory: Reconsidering the Lost Books of the Valois Royal Libraries”
— Maggie Crosland, Washington University in St. Louis / St. Louis Art Museum
“Like Mother, Like Daughter: Replaced Books as Evidence of Matrilineal Literary Influence”
— S. C. Kaplan, University of California–Santa Barbara
Friday, May 12, 10:00 a.m. [Session 161 (f2f), Fetzer 2030]
Anonymous Makers: Scribes, Artists, Printers
Presider: Amanda Luyster, College of the Holy Cross
“Anonymous, Unlocalized, and Rejected: Revisiting Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Tanner 10”
— Sharon M. Rowley, Christopher Newport University
“Mapping a Career for the Master of the Conradin Bible”
— Rebecca W. Corrie, Bates College
“Adam Pinkhurst’s Three Rs”
— Richard Firth Green, Ohio State University
Friday, May 12, 1:30 p.m. [Session 241 (hybrid), Schneider 1360]
Coding and Codicology: New Practices in the Study of Manuscripts and Books
Presider: Wendy Scase, University of Birmingham
“A New Paleography? The Argument for a Macro-Level, Quantitative Ap-proach to Scribal Hands”
— Sebastian H. Dows-Miller, St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford
“Between Authorship, Translation, and Scribal Practice: Using Digital Methods to Assess Complex Compilations in Codex”
— Estelle Guéville, Yale University,
— and David Joseph Wrisley, New York University–Abu Dhabi
“Tracing the Digital Footprint of Anne of Cleves”
— Valerie E. Schutte, Independent Scholar
“Multi-Spectral Imaging of Mainz Printing of the 1450s at Princeton”
— Eric White, Princeton University Library
Friday, May 12, 3:30 p.m. [Session 286 (hybrid), Schneider 1330]
Middle English Texts in Production — In Memoriam Derek Pearsall
Presider: Martha W. Driver, Pace University / JEBS
“Staging Survival: Ordinatio and/as Critique in the Welles Anthology Pastourelle”
— Sarah Baechle, University of Mississippi
“Hoccleve vs. Mowbray: Whose Book Is It?”
— Joyce Coleman, University of Oklahoma
“In Memory of Derek Pearsall: Re-Evaluating Langlandian Scribal Communities in and around the London Guildhall”
— Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, University of Notre Dame / University of Victoria
Saturday, May 13, 10:30 p.m. [Session 313 (f2f), Fetzer 1060]
Teaching and Learning in Medieval Manuscripts and/or Printed Books
Presider: S.C. Kaplan, University of California–Santa Barbara
“Didactic Style and the Appeal of Lydgate’s Popular Verse”
— Taylor Cowdery, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
“French Lessons in Cambridge University Library, MS Dd. 12. 23”
— Rory G. Critten, University of Lausanne
“Teaching and Learning in Late Medieval Greek Manuscripts: Cases of Greek Schoolbooks of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries”
— Elias Petrou, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
“‘Theys are the principale veynis off þe bodye’: An Ordinary Medical Practitioner Learns Phlebotomy in MS Ashmole 1481 (I)”
— Caleb Prus, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester
EBS at Kalamazoo 2022
Wednesday, May 11, 11:00 a.m. EDT [Session 165, not recorded]
Manuscripts and/or Printed Books as Memorial Artifacts
Presider: Jenny Adams, University of Massachusetts
“Dhuoda’s Manuscript Memorial in the Liber manualis”
-- Rosemarie McGerr, Indiana University, Bloomington
“Books as Chapels: Commemorative Aspects of Fifteenth-Century London Common Profit Books”
-- Judith Bleeker, Independent Scholar
“The Memories of Books in Wills: Affordances and Affective Practice”
-- Heather Blatt, Florida International University
Thursday, May 12, 9:00 a.m. EDT [Session 210, recorded]
Coding and Codicology: New Practices in the Study of Manuscripts and Books
Presider: James H. Morey, Emory University
“Cataloging the Lost Bindings of Durham Priory Library with Radiog- raphy”
-- J. D. Sargan, Durham University
“Going Digital: Some Remarks on a Computer-Assisted Collation of Earl Rivers’s Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers”
-- Omar Khalaf, Università degli Studi di Padova
“Quantifying the Page: Analyzing the Page Layout in Colard Mansion’s Boccaccio (1476)”
-- Anna de Bruyn, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
“Discovery through Collaboration: Digitizing Manuscripts in the Midwest through the Peripheral Manuscripts Project”
-- Sarah L. Noonan, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame
Thursday, May 12, 3:00 p.m. EDT [Session 243, recorded]
Networks of Makers: Scribes, Artists, Printers, Binders
Presider: David Lavinsky, Yeshiva University
“The Virgule’s Role in Insular Book Production during the Eighth and Ninth Centuries”
-- Rachel Lea Tharp, University of Oklahoma
“Networking in Cambridge: 1420–1436”
-- Ann Eljenholm Nichols, Winona State University
“De Worde’s Dutch Connections”
-- Martha W. Driver, Pace University
“European Romances, English Printers, and Networks of Makers across Cultures”
-- Lydia Zeldenrust, University of York
Friday, May 13, 9:00 a.m. EDT [Session 296, recorded]
Family Reading: Manuscripts and Books down the Line
Presider: S.C. Kaplan, University of California, Santa Barbara
“The Librairie du Louvre’s Textual Community in Late Medieval France”
-- Savannah Pine, University of Cambridge
“Women Bibliophiles in Late Medieval Hungary”
-- Christopher Mielke, Beverly Heritage Center
“Elizabeth Sinclair, Jean Sinclair, and the Kingis Quair Manuscript”
-- Rory G. Critten, University of Lausanne
“Family Reading: A Book of Poetry to Celebrate the Marriage of King Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves”
-- Valerie E. Schutte, Independent Scholar
Saturday, May 14, 11:00 a.m. EDT [Session 381, not recorded]
Old Wine, New Skins: Manuscripts and Books Adapted, Emended, Repurposed
Presider: Valerie E. Schutte, Independent Scholar
“Old-Fashioned Modern: Two Hundred Years of Reading of the Lancelot- Grail”
-- J. R. Mattison, University of British Columbia
“From Poetry to Prose”
-- Nancy P. Pope, Washington University, St. Louis
“From the Printing Press to the Quill: The Reuse of von Gersdorff’s Feldtbuch der Wundarzney in Manuscript Medical Collections”
-- Chiara Benati, Università degli Studi di Genova
Also of interest --
Thursday, May 12, 7:00 p.m. EDT [Session 276, recorded]
Journal Publishing in Medieval Literary Studies: The State of the Field (A Panel Discussion)
Sponsor: Journal of English and Germanic Philology (JEGP)
Presider: Matthew Giancarlo
A panel discussion with Martha W. Driver, Pace University/Journal of the Early Book Society; Julie Orlemanski, University of Chicago/
postmedieval; Eric Weiskott, Boston College/Yearbook of Langland Studies; Michelle Karnes, University of Notre Dame/Studies in the Age of Chaucer; Randy Schiff, University at Buffalo/Exemplaria; Matthew Fisher, University of California–Los Angeles/Viator
EBS at Kalamazoo 2021
Tuesday, May 11, 11:00 a.m. EDT, Session 112
Copying, Editing and Correction: How Accurate Is It?
Presider: Martha W. Driver, Pace University
“Remaking Old Texts New Again”
— Lori Jones, Carleton University, University of Ottawa
“Multiple Copies, One Source? 15c Redactions of John of Tynemouth’s Sanctilogium in Cotton, Tiberius E. I”
— Virginia Blanton, University of Missouri-Kansas City
“Transcription Today: A Case Study of Transcribing the Lylye of Medicynes”
— Erin Connelly University of Warwick
“Scribal Accuracy in the Reeve’s Tale”
— Thomas J Farrell, Stetson University
Wednesday, May 12, 11:00 a.m. EDT, Session 189
Bi- and Tri-Lingual Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
Presider: Sarah Noonan, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame
“English Women’s Bilingual Manuscripts: Latin and the Vernacular”
— Caitlin Branum Thrash, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“Multi-lingual Apocalypses in Late Medieval England”
— Karen Gross, Lewis & Clark College
“Words for God: Latin and French in the 14th-century Books of Hours”
— Oleksandr Okhrimenko, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
“‘Bremschet Scripcit’- A Multilingual Female(?) Annotator of Stephen Scrope’s Letter of Othea”
— Sarah Wilma Watson, Haverford College
Wednesday, May 12, 1:00 p.m. EDT, Session 209 (live recorded)
‘What’s Past Is Prologue’: Transition of Literary Works from MS to Print
Presider: Valerie Schutte, Independent Scholar
“Printing the Past? Seeking ‘Authenticity’ in an Icelandic Proverb Collection”
— Christine Schott, Erskine College
“Translating the Past: Antonio de Nebrija Rewrites the Catholic Monarchs”
— Bretton Rodriguez, University of Nevada, Reno
“Tudor Loyalties in English Birth Girdles”
— Mary Morse, Rider University
Wednesday, May 12, 7:00 p.m. EDT, Session 237 (live recorded)
What Makes an English Book English?
Presider: Marlene V. Hennessy, Hunter College
“How English Is it?”
— Martha Driver, Pace University
“Decorating to Anglicize the Book”
— J. R. Mattison, University of Toronto
“Chaucer’s Works, English and Foreign”
— Hope Johnston, Baylor University
Thursday, May 13, 11:00 a.m. EDT, Session 269
Migrating Manuscripts and Peripatetic Texts
Presider: Marjorie Harrington, Medieval Institute Publications
“Travelling scholars and manuscripts: the influence of the Paris university book trade on English intellectual life and visual art”
— Alison Ray, Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library
“Total Oblivion? Wycliffite Gospel Commentaries and their Textual Afterlives”
— David Lavinsky, Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University
“Short Migrations with Long Consequences: Loan Chests and Book Movement in Late Medieval Oxford”
— Jenny Adams, University of Massachusetts—Amherst
Friday, May 14, 1:00 p.m. EDT, Session 347
Visual and Verbal Portraits in Manuscripts and Printed Books
Presider: Jill C. Havens, Texas-Christian University
“Jean de Vignay at the Heart of the Early Valois Court: The Portrait of the Translator in the Jeu des échecs moralisé (Morgan G. 52)”
— Lisa Daugherty Iacobellis, Special Collections, The Ohio State University Libraries
“‘A Knyght ther was, and that a noble man’: The Knight’s portrait in Caxton’s illustrated edition of The Canterbury Tales 1483″
— Anamaria Ramona Gellert, Independent Scholar
“‘Marie our Maistresse’: A Verbal Portrait of Queen Mary I at her Accession”
— Valerie Schutte, Independent Scholar
Early Book Society 