PALAEOGRAPHY AND POST-PALAEOGRAPHY: Manuscripts from the First to the Twenty-First Century:
Friday 3 December 2010

Organised by the Institute of English Studies and the Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections (AMARC). Hosted by the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies (Institute of English Studies), Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.

This one-day conference organized by Michelle Brown and Wim Van Mierlo at the Institute of English Studies, with support from AMARC, will look at aspects of manuscript culture before and after the advent of print.  The aim is to discuss practices, problems, theories and methods of analysis irrespective of place or period to see where methodologies overlap or complement each other.  Topics will include: medieval manuscript studies in the digital age; integrating and migrating methodologies – quantitative  and qualitative, early and modern; what is a modern manuscript?; the codicology of modern paper; handwriting in the twentieth century.

See further http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2010/AMARC/index.htm>