Conference: Medieval Fragmentology and the Fragmented Old English Glossed N-Psalter, 4-5 September 2024, Alkmaar

We kindly invite you to a two-day conference and workshop on the 11th-century N-Psalter from England. The conference, co-organised by the University of Warsaw and Leiden University, will take place on 4-5 September 2024 in Alkmaar, the Netherlands. More details and a link to the registration form can be found at the conference website: Medieval Fragmentology. Conference programme is given below.

Fragmentology, the study of medieval fragments, is increasingly gaining academic attention. Inherently interdisciplinary, this scholarly field brings together experts from different backgrounds, ranging from (book) historians to palaeographers, linguists, literary scholars, philologists and experts on material aspects of the fragments. Questions raised include how to identify individual fragments as coming from the same manuscript; how to (digitally) reconstruct such a manuscript if fragments are found in different collections; and how best to preserve and catalogue fragments in existing collections. This conferences hopes to answer some of these general questions, as well as focus on a specific case study: the eleventh-century ‘N-Psalter’ and its dispersed fragments from Cambridge, Haarlem, Sondershausen, and the newly found ones from Elbląg and Alkmaar.