We are very pleased to announce the call for papers for the first Historical English Analysis and Research Tradition (HEART) Conference, which will be held in person 11-12.04.2025 at the Faculty of Modern Languages in Warsaw. It offers a platform for interdisciplinary exchange on the research methods and new interpretations of the materials dated up to 1700. We are proud to welcome as keynote speakers: Jan Čermák (Charles University, Prague), Tamás Karáth (Comenius University, Bratislava and Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest), and Thijs Porck (Leiden University). The conference commemorates the one-thousandth anniversary of the coronation of Bolesław the Brave, the first crowned king of Poland, which took place probably in April, 1025 […]
Research Group for the Study of Manuscripts SIGLUM extends an invitation to an online lecture by Prof. Anna Wojtyś (University of Warsaw), entitled Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe: text, manuscripts, and traps for the translator. The meeting will take place on 28 May 2024 at 17:00-18:30 CET via Zoom. To register for the meeting please contact us at siglum@wn.uw.edu.pl. Geoffrey Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe is a text that earned him the title of “the first technical writer in English” (Basquin 1981: 19). The treatise is assumed to have been written with great clarity, which is consistent with the assumed reader being a boy of the “tendre age of .x. yer.” Hence, the presence of repetitions, similes, explication, […]
Research Group for the Study of Manuscripts SIGLUM extends an invitation to an online lecture by Prof. Anna Wojtyś (University of Warsaw), entitled Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe: text, manuscripts, and traps for the translator. The meeting will take place on 28 May 2024 at 17:00-18:30 CET via Zoom. To register for the meeting please contact us at siglum@wn.uw.edu.pl.
A collaborative volume Bon and Naxi Manuscripts, edited by Agnieszka Helman-Ważny and Charles Rumble, which is the result of workshops at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures in 2016-2022, was published by De Gruyter in 2023. This is ‘the first primarily object-based study on the cultural history and technology of books from the Tibetan Bon and Naxi Dongba traditions’ which ‘discusses the relationship between text and image, writing materials, and the historical and archaeological context of the manuscripts’ places of origin.’ (CSMC news). The volume is available as open access and can be downoalded from the publisher’s website.