medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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RARE BOOK SCHOOL (RBS) is pleased to announce its Spring and Summer
Sessiona 2003, a collection of five-day, non-credit courses on topics
concerning rare books, manuscripts, the history of books and printing, and
special collections to be held at the University of Virginia.
FOR AN APPLICATION FORM and electronic copies of the complete brochure and
the RBS Expanded Course Descriptions (ECDs), providing additional details
about the courses offered and other information about RBS, visit our Web
site at:
http://www.rarebookschool.org
Subscribers to the list may find the following Rare Book School courses to
be of particular interest:
61. THE BOOK IN THE MANUSCRIPT ERA. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, 28 JULY - 1 AUGUST). An
introduction to the MS book in the West from late antiquity to the
beginning of the c16. Topics include: the coming of the codex form, and its
materials and construction; the monastic book; national scripts (Insular,
Visigothic, Beneventan, &c.) and Carolingian developments; changes in
handwriting and decorative styles; the Bible trade; the rise of the
universities, the trade in non-religious books and the pecia system; the
growth of literacy and the production of vernacular manuscripts; book
illumination and new fashions in deluxe MSS; the Renaissance revival of the
classical tradition; the transition from manuscript to printed book;
manuscript books as cultural artifacts. Instructor: Barbara A. Shailor.
BARBARA A. SHAILOR is director of the Beinecke Rare Book and MSS Library at
Yale University. She is the author of the three-volume Catalogue of
Medieval and Renaissance MSS in the Beinecke Rare Book & MS Library, Yale
University (1984-1993) and of the frequently reprinted The Medieval Book:
Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and MS Library (1988).
She has published extensively in the area of Visigothic paleography and
monastic book production in medieval Spain.
62. INTRODUCTION TO ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, 28 JULY - 1
AUGUST). This course is aimed at those who, whether by professional or
personal interests, seek basic information on what can be a difficult
field. Because of their light-sensitive nature, medieval and Renaissance
illuminated manuscripts are almost never on permanent display anywhere;
furthermore, their consultation in reading rooms is usually restricted to
the learned few. The course will discuss chronological, geographical, and
stylistic developments of illumination. The mysteries of nomenclature (all
those oddly named Masters of…) will be unveiled, and connoisseurship will
be discussed. Many lessons will examine medieval concepts deemed essential
by the instructor to an understanding of liturgical manuscripts: dogma,
liturgical practice, the liturgical year, church service books, calendars,
rubrics, and text/picture relationships. Instructor: Roger S. Wieck.
ROGER S. WIECK is Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the
Pierpont Morgan Library; he has also held curatorial positions at the
Walters Art Museum and the Houghton Library at Harvard. He is the author of
The Hours of Henry VIII: A Renaissance Masterpiece by Jean Poyet (2000),
Painted Prayers: The Book of Hours in Medieval and Renaissance Art (1997),
Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life (1988), and
many other books and articles on medieval manuscripts.
72. INTRODUCTION TO LATIN PALEOGRAPHY, 1100-1500. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, AUGUST
4-8). An introduction to this neglected field, including reading,
transcribing (and expanding abbreviations), identification, classification,
dating and localization of the principal kinds of Gothic and humanistic
book script. Examples of Latin texts (and, exceptionally, French and
English ones) will be studied from photocopies, slides, and manuscript
fragments. The course is designed for all those who have to deal with late
medieval MSS. Applicants should have a good basic knowledge of Latin and at
least some previous formal exposure to paleography. Instructor: Albert Derolez.
ALBERT DEROLEZ is Emeritus Professor at the Free Universities of Brussels;
he was formerly Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at the Library of the
State University of Ghent. He is the author of Codicologie des manuscrits
en écriture humanistique sur parchemin (1984) and other books, and he is
President of the Comité International de Paléographie Latine. He holds the
Kenneth and Shirley Rendell Chair in Manuscript Studies at Rare Book School.
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