medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
RARE BOOK SCHOOL (RBS) is pleased to announce its Spring and Summer Sessions 2004, 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, 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:
52. INTRODUCTION TO ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, 5-9 JULY). 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, 26-30 JULY). 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.
81. INTRODUCTION TO CODICOLOGY (MONDAY-FRIDAY, 2-6 AUGUST). The principles, bibliography, and methodology of the analysis and description of Western medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. The course includes a survey of the development of the physical features of manuscript books and practical work by the students on particular points. This is a course for non-specialists, but applicants must have considerable background in the historical humanities; in admitting students to the class, the instructor will prefer those with at least an introductory knowledge of Latin. Instructor: Albert Derolez (see bio above).
71. THE BOOK IN THE MANUSCRIPT ERA. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, 26-30 JULY). 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.
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