Thursday, 21 June 2012 - Saturday, 23 June 2012.
The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH.
The conference will bring a new and multi-disciplinary focus to the late
medieval miscellany, a little-investigated and poorly understood type
of manuscript. Typically such manuscripts present a range of contents
in prose and verse (literary, historical, devotional, medical, and
practical texts) in the various languages of later medieval Britain
(Middle English, Anglo-Norman, Middle Welsh, Middle Scots). The
discussion will address four main inter-related concerns: how to achieve
a definition for the miscellany which distinguishes it from other
mixed-content manuscripts (anthologies, collections, composite volumes);
how make manuscript miscellanies and their textual contents accessible
to modern readers, including scholars, students, archivists, and general
readers; how to develop a coherent scholarly methodology for dealing
with volumes whose contents are intrinsically multidisciplinary and
interdisciplinary; how to understand and represent the complex
relationships between manuscript miscellanies.
Source: APILIST
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