COURSES: The London Palaeography Summer School, 20-24 June 2011. Course director: Professor Michelle Brown; Academic Coordinator: Dr Marigold Norbye.
The London Palaeography Summer School is a series of intensive courses in Palaeography and Diplomatic. Courses range from a half to two days duration and are given by experts in their respective fields from a wide range of institutions. Subject areas include Latin palaeography, Medieaval music notation, pigments, German palaeography, Papal diplomatic, illuminated manuscripts and Books of Hours.
The Summer School is hosted by the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies (School of Advanced Study, Institute of English Studies, University of London) with the co-operation of the British Library, the Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society, the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House Library, the Warburg Institute, University College, King’s College London and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Most classes will take place in seminar rooms located in Senate House (Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU). One of the courses will take place in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The School of Advanced Study does not have its own halls of residence.
COURSES:
Monday 20 June
* A History of Latin scripts
Dr James Willoughby (New College, Oxford)
Full-day
* Textual Edition I: Latin
Miss Carlotta Dionisotti (KCL)
Half-day (morning). It is possible to take this as part of a full-day course on Textual edition, or as a half-day course.
* Textual Edition II: vernacular
Prof. Anthony Edwards (De Montfort University)
Half-day (afternoon). It is possible to take this as part of a full-day course on Textual Edition, or as a half-day course.
* Medieval and Tudor Sources for English Local History
Dr Nigel Ramsay (UCL)
Full day
* An Introduction to Ottoman Palaeography and Epigraphy
Dr Georgios C. Liakopoulos (University of Athens)
Full day.
Tuesday 21 June
* Reading and interpretation of vernacular documents and records, 1500-1750
Miss Elizabeth Danbury (UCL)
Half-day (morning)
* An Introduction to Greek Palaeography
Dr Charalambos Dendrinos (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Full day
* Introduction to the Practices of Describing and Cataloguing Western Medieval Manuscripts
Dr Hanna Vorholt (Warburg Institute)
Half day course (morning)
* Tools and materials of mediaeval craft manuscript makers
Ms Patricia Lovett (Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society)
Half day (afternoon)
* Liturgical and Devotional Manuscripts I
Dr Jenny Stratford (IHR) and Dr Rowan Watson (V&A)
One or two-day course. It is possible to take day one only of this course
A display of medieval writing materials, presented by Alan Cole, Chair of the Museum of Writing, will be exhibited during the lunch breaks on Tuesday 21 June and Thursday 23 June, and is open to all participants of the Summer School.
Wednesday 22 June
* English Palaeography
Dr Debby Banham (Birkbeck and Cambridge)
Full day. It is possible to take this as a half-day course on Anglo-Saxon Palaeography (morning) or Middle English Palaeography (afternoon).
* Identifying the Provenance of Medieval MSS I: An Introduction to Using Medieval and Early Modern Evidence
Mr Peter Kidd
Half day (morning). It is possible to take this as part of a full-day course on Identifying the Provenance, or as a half-day course.
* Identifying the Provenance of Medieval MSS II: An Introduction to Using Printed Catalogues
Mr Peter Kidd
Half day (afternoon). It is possible to take this as part of a full-day course on Identifying the Provenance, or as a half-day course.
* Liturgical and Devotional Manuscripts II
Dr Jenny Stratford (IHR) and Dr Rowan Watson (V&A). Day two of two-day course.
Day two is normally available only for those who have taken day one.
Thursday 23 June
* Quills and Calligraphy (a practical course)
Ms Patricia Lovett (Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society).
Full day (including practical skills)
* Introduction to Latin Palaeography
Dr Marigold Norbye (UCL)
Full day
* Reading and Writing Medieval Manuscripts: folio layouts in context
Dr Anna Somfai (Central European University)
Full day.
A display of medieval writing materials, presented by Alan Cole, Chair of the Museum of Writing, will be exhibited during the lunch breaks on Tuesday 21 June and Thursday 23 June, and is open to all participants of the Summer School.
Friday 24 June
* Entering Sacred Text: Prefatory images in Insular, Carolingian, Anglo-Saxon and Ottonian Bible manuscripts
Dr Carol Farr
Full day.
* German Palaeography
Dr Dorothea McEwan (Warburg Institute) and Dr Claudia Wedepohl (Warburg Institute)
Full day
* Intermediate Latin Palaeography
Dr Marigold Norbye (UCL)
Full day.
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