Layers of Parchment, Layers of Time: Reconstructing Manuscripts 800 – 1600, Pembroke College, Cambridge, June 23, 2017
Layers of Parchment, Layers of Time: Reconstructing Manuscripts 800 – 1600, is an interdisciplinary day-long symposium that will explore various issues surrounding the complex subject of manuscript reconstruction. Our goal is to foster dialogues—between different disciplines—on how to approach dismembered manuscripts from intellectual and practical perspectives.
The symposium will features panels, that are composed thematically rather than by academic discipline, a round table discussion, a keynote, and a viewing of individual manuscript leaves from a Cambridge collection.
The symposium will take place on Friday 23 June 2017 and will be held at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge.
Dr David Rundle will give the keynote paper, titled ‘Utopia, Babel and Dystopias, past and present’.
We invite the submission of papers on the following topics (although most certainly not limited to):
- The manuscript as an object made in layers over time
- Digital reconstruction of manuscripts
- New approaches to understanding reception
- Methodologies for tracing lost/stolen fragments and leaves
- Methodologies for reconstructing manuscripts
- Economic, political, and legal consequences of reconstructing manuscripts
- Reconstructed manuscripts in their original contexts
- Modern methods of preservation for loose fragments/leaves
- The art market as a means for fragment/leaf distribution
- The role of collectors (public institutions and private individuals)
We encourage graduate students as well as established scholars to apply.
Papers will be scheduled for 20 minutes.