Two workshops and a conference on the ancient and medieval art of memory – ‘Les animaux comme matrices mnémotechniques et exégétiques de l’Antiquité au XVIe siècle’ – are scheduled in October – December 2021. The workshops, organized by researchers from the Catholic University of Louvain (Naïs Virenque), the University of Lille (Raphaël Demès), the University of Nantes (Angélique Ferrand) and the University of Bordeaux ( Antoine Paris), will take place in Lille, Louvain, and online. Registration via email to Christine Aubry: christine.aubry@univ-lille.fr
This conference, hosted by the Centre for Medieval Studies, is devoted to the study of manuscript fragments, and what these fragments can tell us about lost books, medieval and post-medieval book history, and textual history. siglum.uw.edu.pl/…/fragments-conference-online-programme-3 Research questions may include, but are not limited to: What difference does the manuscript fragment make to the textual tradition of the text it contains? What can manuscript fragments tell us about the lost literature of the Middle Ages and about changing tastes? How can we use the evidence from manuscript fragments to piece together the lost book from which it derives […]