Centres of Book Production in Constantinople and in the Byzantine Provinces, lecture by Mgr. Paul Canart, Vatican Apostolic Library, American Academy in Rome, January 9, 2015, 5:00 pm

Recent scholarship on the centres of book production (or scriptoria) in the Byzantine world has achieved some remarkable results, but has thrown up even more new questions, to the point that the notion itself of scriptorium is difficult to define. This lecture will explore some of these results and questions, with particular reference to real or imagined scriptoria in Constantinople and in regional centres such as the ones in Southern Italy.