THE USES OF SCRIPT AND PRINT
1300-1700
An interdisciplinary conference
at the University of Exeter
5-7 April 2000
'The Uses of Script and Print 1300-1700' is designed to build on
the burgeoning interest in the connections between culture and
communication in medieval and early modern Europe. It aims to focus
research on a particular of cluster of themes: the role which literacy and
orality, manuscript and print played in the construction and dissemination
of religious cultures and the manner in which different media could be both
instruments of authority and control and also mechanisms for protest and
dissent. It aims to bring together experienced and younger researchers and
to transcend the biases and constraints imposed by conventional
periodisation and confessional historiography. One of its objectives is to
question and unsettle received wisdom about the intimate alliance between
the Protestant Reformation and print. It will seek to examine and to
challenge the linked assumption that Roman Catholicism both before and
after the Lutheran schism was inherently hostile to technological
innovation in the sphere of communication and deeply reluctant to embrace
new forms of media: here the initiatives and activities of monks, friars
and nuns deserve special attention. The colloquium is also intended to
highlight, on the one hand, how the forces of authority exploited the
hegemonic potential of written and printed texts, the purposes served by
encasing ideas in Latin and vernacular languages, and problems associated
with patrolling and facilitating access to knowledge. On the other, it aims
to draw attention to the ways in which persecuted minorities and other
dissident groups harnessed print to teach, attack, inform and persuade and
utilised oral and scribal modes as supple and flexible devices for
circulating unorthodox ideas. Some contributors will extend these themes to
the socially subordinate and politically inarticulate and others will
investigate the extent to which transformations in communication were
gendered. Accordingly, the conference has six overarching themes:
I Monastic Communities and Textual Communities
II Print and Persecution
III Oral and Scribal Culture and Unorthodox Ideas
IV Gender and the Written Word
V Languages of Communication: Latin and Vernacular
VI Authority, Textuality, and Access to Knowledge
PROGRAMME
The Uses of Script and Print 1300-1700
An interdisciplinary conference
at the University of Exeter
5-7 April 2000
Wednesday 5 April 2000
2.15-3.45 (plenary session)
Felicity Riddy, Publication before Print: The Case of Julian of Norwich
James Clark, The Benedictines and Printing in Early Tudor England
3.45-4.15 Tea
4.15-5.45 (parallel sessions)
Session A
Ian Green, Print, Protestantism and Profit in Early Modern England
Arnold Hunt, Protestantism and Oral Culture in Early Modern England
Session B
Andrew Butcher, The Uses of Latin and English in a Small Late Medieval
Town, c.1300- 1550
Nicholas Orme, Elementary Education in England, 1380-1550
6.45-8.00 Dinner
8.15-9.30 (plenary session)
Emma Dillon, Seeing and Hearing: The Political Motets of the Roman de Fauvel
Chris Marsh, 'If thou read these ballads (and not sing them), the poor
ballads are undone'
Thursday 6 April 2000
9.00-10.15 (parallel sessions)
Session A
Alex Walsham, Post-Reformation English Catholicism and the Culture of Print
Alison Shell, The Catholic Oral Challenge
Session B
Julia Crick, Sir Edward Coke, Authority and Scribal Text
Chantal Stebbings and Anthony Musson, Law and Text
10.15-10.30 Coffee
10.30-12.30 (plenary session)
Tom Betteridge, 'As a Shadow to a Body': Persecution, Texts and Order 1520-1540
Andrew Pettegree, Clandestine and Disguised Printing in the Protestant Book
Anne Dillon, Elizabethan Catholic Martyrs and the Media
1.00-2.00 Buffet Lunch (Cathedral Chapter House)
2.15-3.30 Tours of Exeter Cathedral and the Cathedral Library
4.00-4.30 Tea (Main Campus)
4.30-6.00 (parallel sessions)
Session A
Malcolm Gaskill, Witches and the Written Word: Popular Magic and Literate
Communication
Bob Kiehl, Popular Pamphlets and Witch-hunting in Early Modern Catholic Germany
Session B
Dirk Breiding, Mutual Reinforcements: The Might of Word and Weapon in
Medieval England
Kate Currey, The 'Reading' of Funeral Texts in Ducal Lorraine (1608-1611)
7.15 Conference Dinner
Friday 7 April 2000
9.00-11.00 (parallel sessions)
Session A
David Turner, Language, Sex and Morality in Later Seventeenth-Century
English Print Culture
Adam Fox, 'Old Wives' Tales': Women and Oral Tradition in Early Modern England
Mary Morrissey, Authority, Publicity and Narrative Conventions in Early
Modern Women's Spiritual Life-Writing
Session B
Scott Mandlebrote, The Bible from Ancient Manuscript to Contemporary Print
in Seventeenth Century England
Robert Wilkinson, Printing the Manuscript: Scribal Involvement in the
Editio Princeps of the Syriac New Testament (1555)
11.00-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.45 (plenary session)
Ann Hughes, Thomas Edwards' Gangraena (1646): Print, Persecution and Polemic
Kate Peters, Texts and Authority in the Quaker Movement: The Case of James
Nayler (1656)
12.45-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.00 Round Table Discussion
BOOKING FORM
The Uses of Script and Print 1300-1700
University of Exeter, 5-7 April 2000
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The conference fee of £30.00 includes tea and coffee on all three days.
Residential
Accommodation has been arranged in a newly refurbished hall of residence of
the university.
Salaried
Full board (incl. standard bed and breakfast accommodation
on 5 and 6 April, lunch on 6 and 7 April, dinner on 5 and 6
April, and conference fee)
£145.00
Full board (incl. en suite bed and breakfast accommodation
on 5 and 6 April, lunch on 6 and 7 April, dinner on 5 and 6
April, and conference fee)
£160.00
Students and Retired
Full board (incl. standard bed and breakfast accommodation
on 5 and 6 April, lunch on 6 and 7 April, dinner on 5 and 6
April, and conference fee)
£130.00
Full board (incl. en suite bed and breakfast accommodation
on 5 and 6 April, lunch on 6 and 7 April, dinner on 5 and 6
April, and conference fee)
£145.00
Non Residential (The conference fee of £30.00 includes tea and coffee on
all three days.)
Salaried
Attendance only (=conference fee) £30.00
Attendance, lunches and dinners (incl. lunch on 6 and 7
April, dinner on 5 and 6 April, conference fee)
£73.00
Attendance and lunches (incl. lunch on 6 and 7 April,
conference fee)
£45.00
Non-Residential (cont'd)
Students and Retired
Attendance only (=conference fee) £15.00
Attendance, lunches and dinners (incl. lunch on 6 and 7
April, dinner on 5 and 6 April, conference fee)
£58.00
Attendance and lunches (incl. lunch on 6 and 7 April,
conference fee)
£30.00
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Booking forms must be received no later than 1 March 2000. Further details,
together with a map, will be sent on receipt of the completed booking form.
Late bookings will be accepted (provided accommodation is still available)
but will incur a penalty of £20.00. Booking forms and cheques should be
sent to the conference organisers:
Dr Julia Crick and Dr Alex Walsham
Department of History
University of Exeter, Amory Building
Rennes Drive, Exeter, Devon EX4 4RJ
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