Programme

Plenary

William Johnson (Duke), Books and the Idea of Publication in Classical Antiquity

Writing about Writing

• Aara Suksi (Western Ontario), Prometheus, Pandora and Io
• A. Conti (Bergen), Hunc librum scribi feci ego: Colophons and Book Prices
• Erika Sigurdson (Leeds), Writing about Writing in Fourteenth-Century Iceland

Coffee and cake

Books in the Twelfth Century

• Nadia Togni (Geneva), Circulation and Use of the Book at the Time of the Ecclesiastical Reform in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
• Irene O'Daly (Leiden), The Use of Rhetorical Manuals in the Long Twelfth Century
• George Younge (Cambridge), The Place of Old English in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance: London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian C.xiv and the Development of the Late Old English Anthology

Lunch

• Central and Peripheral Writing Practices
• Rolf Bremmer (Leiden), Isolation or Network: Arengas and Colophon Verse in Frisian Manuscripts around 1300
• Kristel Zilmer (Bergen), Runic Graffiti and Inscriptional Practices in Medieval Scandinavia
• Erik Kwakkel (Leiden), Writing in the Gothic Age with a Caroline Training: The Case of Orderic Vitalis

16.30-18.00

Writing Early England

• Claudia Di Sciacca (Udine), (Re-)Writing the Vitas Patrum in Late Anglo-Saxon England: Ælfric and Two Visions of Departing Souls
• Rebecca Stephenson (Louisiana at Monroe), Writing Poetry in the Stars: The Divine Inspiration of Poetry and Computus in Bede and Byrhtferth of Ramsey
• Philip A. Shaw (Leicester), The Migration of the Wealhhafoc: A European Bird in English Glossarial Tradition

Plenary

Kathryn Lowe (Glasgow), Fit for Repurpose: Ælfric, the Canon and the Continuum

Plenary

Marilena Maniaci (Cassino), Medieval Book Design: Layout Canons and Recipes

Reading and Writing Practices in Eastern Europe

• Mihael Mitrea (CEU-Budapest), 'Thoughts Carried by the Speaking Paper': Letters Connecting Readers and Philobibloi in Early Palaiologan Byzantium
• Foteini Spingou (Oxford), Looking for the Ancestors: Copying Komnenian Court Poetry at the Time of the Early Palaiologan Renaissance
• Svetlana Tsonkova (CEU-Budapest), Medieval Bulgarian требници: Cultural Centers, Written Traditions and Quotidian Practices in Interaction

Coffee and cake

New Analyses of Medieval Writing

• Estelle Stubbs (Sheffield), Scribal Identities
• Jacob Thaisen (Stavanger), Are Letter Shapes Universal, Regional, Local or Idiosyncratic?
• Orietta Da Rold (Leicester), Digital Humanities and Manuscripts Online: Written Culture 1000 to 1500

Lunch

Speech, Image, Identity: Writing and its Relations

• Gemma Wheeler (Sheffield), A Norman by Any Other Name: Rewriting Ethnic Tensions in Geffrei Gaimar's Estoire des Engleis
• F. Conti (CEU-Budapest), The Preacher's Writings: Reportationes, Manuscripts and Audience in Early Fifteenth-Century Observant Franciscan Texts
• Anna Siebach Larsen (Notre Dame), Visions of the Word in British Library MS Additional 37049

Plenary

David Wallace (Pennsylvania), Conceptualizing Medieval European Literary History