Cambridge Medieval Palaeography Workshop

Seminar Series;

Easter Term 2013, Fridays 2-4 (10 May, 17 May and 24 May)

Trinity College, Junior Parlour

scribeThe Cambridge Medieval Palaeography Workshop is a new forum for informal discussion on medieval script and scribal practices, and on the presentation, circulation and reception of texts in their manuscript contexts. It is hoped to hold a series of workshops annually in the Easter Term, each focusing upon a particular issue, and usually explored through a pair of short presentations and discussion.

10 May           Liturgical texts in their manuscript contexts

Henry Parkes   ‘Visual hierarchy in eleventh-century “liturgical” texts’

Erik Niblaeus ‘Twelfth-Century Breviary Fragments in the Swedish National Archives’

17 May            The process of development in script

David Ganz     ‘Irish cursive script: scribes, styles and development’

Chris Voth      ‘The manuscript evidence for the beginnings of English Square Minuscule’

24 May            The palaeography of musical notation

Eduardo Aubert ‘The notions of pure and mixed (neumatic) scripts in the light of tenth- and eleventh-century sources from Burgundy’

Giovanni Varelli ‘Ransacking the “toolbox” of tenth-century Italian music scribes: reflections on a first survey’

All welcome. For further information, contact the workshop convenors, Tessa Webber (mtjw2@cam.ac.uk) and David Ganz (ganz.palaeography@gmail.com)

The Junior Parlour is on T staircase, Blue Boar Court, located on the opposite side of Trinity Street from the main entrance to the College (next door to Brora). Enter from Trinity Street through the covered archway; go up steps on the right. The entrance to T staircase is half-way up the steps on the right.

Seminars in the History of Material Texts, Easter Term 2013

Seminar Series;

HMTlogo2_highresThursdays at 5:30pm, room SR-24, Faculty of English, 9 West Road

Thursday 2 May

Robert Priest (History, Cambridge), ‘Writing to Ernest Renan: Fan Mail, Hate Mail and the Historical Jesus in Nineteenth-Century France’

Thursday 16 May

Lucy Razzall (English, Cambridge), ‘Thinking Inside the Box: Containers and the Materiality of Early Modern Texts’

All welcome. Wine & soft drinks will be served at the start of the seminar.

For more information, please contact Jason Scott-Warren (jes1003@cam.ac.uk), Andrew Zurcher (aez20@cam.ac.uk) or Dunstan Roberts (dcdr2@cam.ac.uk)

Seminars in the History of Material Texts, Lent Term 2012/13

Seminar Series;

Thursdays at 5:30pm, room SR-24, Faculty of English, 9 West Road

Thursday 24 January

Bob Groser (Bibles Production Manager, Cambridge University Press), will talk about materials and processes used in modern Bible manufacture

Thursday 21 February

Elizabeth Upper (Munby Fellow, Cambridge University Library) and Ad Stijnman (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam), ‘Cycles of Invention: The Historical Developments of ‘New’ Innovations in Colour Printing, ca. 1600-1700′

All welcome. Wine & soft drinks will be served at the start of the seminar.

For more information, please contact Jason Scott-Warren (jes1003@cam.ac.uk), Andrew Zurcher (aez20@cam.ac.uk) or Dunstan Roberts (dcdr2@cam.ac.uk)

Seminars in the History of Material Texts, Michaelmas Term 2012

Seminar Series;

Thursdays at 5:30pm, room SR-24, Faculty of English, 9 West Road

Thursday 11 October

Andrew Zurcher, ‘Spenser’s Vomit: Imitation, Language, Materiality’

There are three short optional pre-readings for this seminar–download them here, here and here

Thursday 8 November

Abigail Brundin and Dunstan Roberts, ‘Italian books in an English great house library: The case of Belton House in Lincolnshire’

All welcome. Wine & soft drinks will be served at the start of the seminar.

For more information, please contact Jason Scott-Warren (jes1003@cam.ac.uk), Andrew Zurcher (aez20@cam.ac.uk) or Dunstan Roberts (dcdr2@cam.ac.uk)

CMT lunchtime seminar

Seminar Series;

Thursday 31 May, 12.30-2, Faculty of English (room tba)

Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri (Jadavpur University) will give a paper entitled

‘Tagore’s Text: An Online Variorum’

Sukanta Chaudhuri is the author of numerous books, including The Metaphysics of Text (Cambridge, 2010). He was a co-founder and Director from 2004-2010 of the Jadavpur School of Cultural Texts and Records.

Seminars in the History of Material Texts, Easter term 2012

Seminar Series;

Thursdays at 5:30pm, room SR-24, Faculty of English, 9 West Road

Thursday 17 May

Juliet Fleming (NYU) will discuss pre-circulated sections from her book-in-progress: Counterproductions: Bibliography After Derrida

For copies, please email Jason Scott-Warren (jes1003@cam.ac.uk)

Thursday 31 May

Daniel Wakelin (St Hilda’s, Oxford)

‘Some Scribes Thinking’

For more information, contact Sarah Cain (stc22@cam.ac.uk)

Seminars in the History of Material Texts, Lent Term 2012

Seminar Series;

9 February New Directions in Early Modern Book History

Dunstan Roberts (Trinity Hall, Cambridge): ‘Ordinary and Exceptional Evidence in the Study of Readers’ Annotations’

Edward Wilson-Lee (Sidney Sussex, Cambridge): ‘How Galileo read his Petrarch’

8 March     Mark Purcell (National Trust) will talk about National Trust Libraries.

Seminars take place at 5:30pm on Thursdays, English Faculty, 9 West Road, room SR-24 (on the second floor). All welcome.

Seminars in the History of Material Texts, Michaelmas Term 2011

Seminar Series;

Seminars take place on Thursdays within term at 5:30 in S-R24 in the Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge.

For more information, contact Sarah Cain, Corpus Christi College (stc22@cam.ac.uk), Jason Scott-Warren, Faculty of English (jes1003@cam.ac.uk), or Andrew Zurcher, Queens’ College (aez20@cam.ac.uk)

13 October, John Rink (Faculty of Music), ‘The Virtual Chopin’

10 November, Linda Bree (Cambridge University Press), ‘Scholarly Publishing and Technological Change’

Seminars in the History of Material Texts, Easter 2011

Seminar Series;

Seminars take place on Thursdays within term at 5:30 in S-R24 in the Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge.

For more information, contact Daniel Wakelin, Faculty of English (dlw22@cam.ac.uk) or Sarah Cain, Corpus Christi College (stc22@cam.ac.uk).

5 May Professor James Raven (University of Essex): The Sites of Printing and Bookselling in London in the Eighteenth Century

19 May Reading group on recent work on paratexts and the history of the book. Texts for discussion (below) are online via the Faculty Library’s CamTools site: please email Sarah Cain (stc22@cam.ac.uk) for further details or hard copy.
– William Sherman, ‘On the Threshold: Architecture, Paratext, and Early Print Culture’, in Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, ed. Baron/Lindquist/Shevlin (Amherst, 2007), 67-81; and
– Franco Moretti, ‘Style, Inc. Reflections on Seven Thousand Titles (British Novels, 1740-1850)’, and Katie Trumpener, ‘Critical Response I: Paratext and Genre System: A Response to Franco Moretti’, Critical Inquiry, 36 (2009), 134-74.

CMT/CoDE seminar

Events, Seminar Series;

The Cultures of the Digital Economy Institute (Anglia Ruskin University) and the Centre for Material Texts (University of Cambridge) present:

THE BOOK PUBLISHING HISTORIES SEMINAR SERIES

Seminar 1: Renaissance Texts and Publishing

Monday 23rd May 2011 5-6.45pm, Morison Room, Cambridge University Library

Professor Jane Taylor (Durham University) on matters of taste in sixteenth-century publishing

and

Professor Eugene Giddens (Anglia Ruskin University) on preparing digital editions of early modern literature

For more information please contact Dr Leah Tether: leah.tether@anglia.ac.uk