Mmmonk and the Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies (Ghent University) will host a series of online lectures on medieval manuscripts ‘for advanced beginners’.  The meetings will be held on November 17, November 24, and December 1 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. (CET).

The series programme:

November 17

Elaine Treharne (Stanford University): The human experience as an integral part of the history and identity of a book

Ann Kelders (KBR Royal Library Belgium): An Introduction to Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music in the Low Countries

November 24

Élodie Lévêque (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): An Introduction to Biocodicology – The material studies of medieval manuscripts

Thomas Falmagne (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main): An Introduction to Medieval Cistercian Reading Culture

December 1

Lisa Demets (Ghent University): An Introduction to Multilingual Manuscripts in Medieval Flanders

Jeroen Deploige and Wim Verbaal (Ghent University): ‘Spotlight on Mmmonk Research’: Medieval Reading Strategies – The Liber Floridus as a circular enclosure of creation, history and incarnation

Abstracts, bio notes and a registration form are available here: Mmonk lectures registration