38th International Congress on Medieval Studies

8‒11 May 2003

[First published on our first website on *19 April 2006, with updates on this second website]

At the 2003 Congress, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence sponsored one Session.  As customary, some Trustees and Associates of the Research Group participated in the Congress in diverse ways.

Bodleian Library, Tanner MS 10, folio 38 recto, detail. Photo: © Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

This is the first year that the Research Group resumed the tradition of sponsoring Sessions at the Congress since 1993, although with an appearance for Receptions at the 1997 Congress to celebrate the co-publication of the Illustrated Catalogue of Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

The activities during the intervening years occupied our energies in establishing the new base and a focus for activities in the United States.  Some more Publications and Events included.  But now we could return, stronger than ever.

As a bonus, during the interim, our logo had embarked upon a redesign, by request.  The process is described in the feature ‘About Our Logo’ in our illustrated Bulletin ShelfLife, Number 1 (Winter 2006), page 37. The new design — which does not replace the former monochrome version, but rather stands alongside it — introduces color into the logo, according to carefully selected choices.

Session sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence

“The Imperfect Art:  Editing Medieval Texts”

Organizer:  R. M. Liuzza (Tulane University)

Presider:  Robert D. Stevick (University of Washington ‒ Seattle)

Presenters:

• Mildred Budny (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence), “Introduction”

• Sharon M. Rowley (University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras), “The Heights of Imperfection:  Editing the Old English Bede”
  

  A Witness to the ‘Old English Bede’. Tanner MS 10, folios 78v-79r. Photo: © Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

• Michael Calabrese (California State University ‒ Los Angeles), “Uncertainty and Ambiguity in the Editing of MS HM (San Marino, Huntingdon Library), MS 128 of Piers Plowman“

• Barbara Bordalejo (De Montfort University), “The New Semantics and the Editing of Medieval Texts”

Respondent:  Frank T. Coulson (Ohio State University)

Notes

The Abstract of Sharon Rowley’s paper was published in the Old English Newsletter, 36:3 (Spring 2003), A-25–26, now online.

Bodleian Library, Tanner MS 10, folio 68 recto. Photo: © Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

The subject of this Session received further exploration, also with some participants from this Session, in our Colloquium on  “Innovations for Editing Texts” (October 2003).  Its poster, too (seen here), includes the colorized version of the logo of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence.

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The full 2003 Congress program is archived as 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies.

The full set of the Research Group Activities at the Congress is listed in our Congress Activities.

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