Networks of Books and Readers in the Medieval Mediterranean (I–II), session at the 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 11–14, 2017

Networks of Books and Readers in the Medieval Mediterranean I: Books and Networks of Books and Readers in the Medieval Mediterranean II: Readers address the study of networks of books and readers in the Medieval Mediterranean. How did texts and ideas circulate in a Mediterranean context? What types of motifs, topics, and ideas travelled? What books were translated and why? Were there Mediterranean networks of readers who circulated particular texts? These two panels, one focusing on books and the other on readers, seek papers of a comparative, interdisciplinary and/or methodologically innovative nature that focus on how members of various faith and ethnic communities circulated texts and ideas in the broader Mediterranean.

Organizer
Núria Silleras-Fernandez, University of Colorado at Boulder

Sessions sponsored by the CU Mediterranean Studies Group and the Mediterranean Seminar.