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Marginalia in Books for 2016 M-MLA

May 10, 2016 in Conference, Conference Announcement

Border States:
Marginalia in North American Manuscripts and Printed Books

Two Panels
Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
and Organized by Justin Hastings
(Department of English, Loyola University Chicago)

at the Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association (M-MLA)
to be held on 10-13 November 2016 at St. Louis, Missouri

[Posted on 10 May 2016, with updates. A further update appears in the 2016 M-MLA Report.]

Invitation Letter, Plus Marginalia, for 24 June 1994.

Invitation Letter, Plus Marginalia, for ‘Marginalia in Manuscripts’, 24 June 1994

The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, in keeping with the M-MLA conference’s theme of “Border States,” announces the following pair of Special Session Panels examining materials in North American collections. The responses to the Call for Papers for our sponsored Special Session yielded two panels rather than one, and extend their scope both temporally and geographically.

The subjects, and their extended range, accord well with the Research Group’s long-term interest in the physical characteristics of books, their modes of production, and their processes of use across time. The subject of “Marginalia in Manuscripts” formed the focus of one of the Seminars on “The Evidence of Manuscripts” in our early years based in the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College. Our blog on “Manuscript Studies” — plus some printed books — includes reports of discoveries grounded in close analysis of their surfaces, marginalia often included. Do we practice what we preach? Well, we prefer to refrain from writing in books belonging to others, as we recommend to you, but our own pages? That might be different. Witness the Master Copy of the Invitation Letter to that Seminar (see here). Marginalia Lives On!

For the 2016 Panels, we publish the Abstracts for the Papers in stages, starting now. The publication of the Convention timetable allows us also to report the schedule for our Sessions.

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Marginalia in Manuscripts and Books in North America

March 4, 2016 in Conference, Events

Border States:
Marginalia in North American Manuscripts and Printed Books

Call for Papers

Two Panels
Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
and Organized by Justin Hastings
(Department of English, Loyola University College, Chicago)

at the Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association (M-MLA)
to be held on 10-13 November 2016 at St. Louis, Missouri

The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, in keeping with the M-MLA conference’s theme of “Border States,” proposes the following pair of panels on materials in North American collections.

I. Between Text and Page: Marginalia in Medieval Manuscripts

II. Between Manuscript Page and Printed Page — And Back Again

The panels invite all approaches, including textual, art historical, codicological, and paleographical.

Interested panelists should send brief abstracts of no more than 300 words to jhastings@luc.edu by 5 April 2016.

Justin Hastings for
The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Department of English
Loyola University Chicago
1032 W Sheridan Road
Chicago, Illinois 60626

Soon we will post the programs for these panels, as the selection progresses.

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Facing pages in an opening of a dismembered manuscript, with a marginal addition in the originally blank second column at the end of the original text. Private collection, reproducted by permission.

A manuscript fragment and its marginalia. Private collection, reproduced by permission.

Information about this marginal entry and its manuscript context appears in Written In the Stars.

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Note. We met Justin through his participation in the Research Group’s co-sponsored Session on Medieval Manuscripts in North American Collections at the 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies. The Abstract for his Paper is published here: Hastings (2013 Congress). We thank him for his continuing contributions and his organizational expertise.

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For information about the Events of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, to which these Sponsored Panels belong, please see our Events and Events Archive.

For convenience, we maintain a distinction between our Events elsewhere (in various centers in North America and beyond) and our many Congress Activities over the years at the Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, likewise with a Congress Archive, held at Western Michigan University each May in Kalamazoo.

The pair of panels intended for the 2016 M-MLA Convention represent the first time, apart from the Kalamazoo Congress, that the Research Group sponsors meetings within a conference held in North America.

We look forward to your contributions to this new stage in the history of the Research Group.

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Tags: Books in North America, Manuscripts & Early Printed Books, Marginalia, medieval manuscripts in North America, Midwest Modern Language Association
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2016 Congress Events Proposed

June 12, 2015 in Conference, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo

Events to be Sponsored and Co-Sponsored
by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
at the 2016 International Congress on Medieval Studies (12–15 May)

[Published on 10 June 2015]

For the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo next May, the Research Group hopes to sponsor and co-sponsor Sessions, as part of our continuing activities at the Congress. For example, at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, the Research Group had 2 sponsored and 3 co-sponsored Sessions, plus a Business Meeting and co-sponsored Reception.

As before, we seek to co-sponsor sessions in 2016 with the Societas Magica (since 2006) and with the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida (since 2014). During and after the 50th Congress, we collectively considered plans for sessions for next year. By the 1 June deadline, the Research Group submitted its proposal for sessions to the Congress Committee. We hope for approval for these plans.

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Tags: Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida, Medieval Studies, Societas Magica
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2015 Congress Report

May 23, 2015 in Abstracts of Conference Papers, Bembino, Business Meeting, Conference, Conference Announcement, ICMS, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Reception

Events Sponsored and Co-Sponsored
by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
at the 2015 International Congress on Medieval Studies

14–17 May

[First published with the Announcement of Programs on 6 January 2015, with updates;
revised with Schedule Assignments on 1 February, with updates;
issued with Program Updates plus Abstracts of Papers on 7 April, also with updates;
and now issued here on 23 May 2015 with the 2015 Congress Report]

Corbel Head with handlebar moustache on Le Pont Neuf, Paris. Photograph by Ilya V. Sverdlov, reproduced by permission

Photography by Ilya V. Sverdlov

For the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, the Research Group had 2 sponsored and 3 co-sponsored Sessions. They build, in part, upon our 2014 Congress in our Anniversary Year. The aims of the 2015 sessions are described in our 2015 Congress Call for Papers.

As before, we co-sponsored sessions with the Societas Magica (since 2006) and with the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida (since 2014). Like last year, we sponsored a celebratory Reception — now with both the Societas Magica and the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University.

For the first time, our Business Meeting was open to all and listed in the Congress Schedule, which presents the Program as a whole (see below).

Here we announce the events as accomplished, with their Posters. We also post the Abstracts of Papers. A new Feature of our website this year are the
Indexed lists of the Authors of Abstracts for our Congress Sessions
searchable
By Author and
By Year.

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Tags: ancient and biblical models for medieval kings, Carolingian Studies, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida, Dream Books, Dream Interpretation Manuals, Early Medieval Art, Germanic folk prayers, Index of Christian Art at Princeton University, Lydgate, Manuscript Photography, Medieval astrological songs, medieval charms, medieval counterfeiting, Medieval Dream Interpretation, medieval forgery, Medieval Kingship, medieval princes in Central Europe, merovingian chronicles, Power of Words, pre-photographic reproduction, Reginald Scot, Saint Erkenwald, Saints Edmund and Fremund, Semi-Official Counterfeiting, Societas Magica, Solomonic Magic, Somniale Danielis, Songs of the Zodiac
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2014 Colloquium on “When the Dust Has Settled” Accomplished

November 17, 2014 in Abstracts of Conference Papers, Anniversary, Bembino, Book & Exhibition Reviews, Conference, Events, Exhibition

We report successful completion of the Colloquium on Friday, 14 November 2014 at Princeton University.

[This post updates both the Announcement for this event (published as Colloquium Announced), and its Colloquium Program.]

Document of Berengarius, detail, unfolded, with concluding date and gathered dust in the fold. Photography © Mildred Budny

“A Settling of Dust”

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Marginalia in Books for 2016 M-MLA

Border States:
Marginalia in North American Manuscripts and Printed Books

Two Panels
Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
and Organized by Justin Hastings
(Department of English, Loyola University Chicago)

at the Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association (M-MLA)
to be held on 10-13 November 2016 at St. Louis, Missouri

Marginalia in Manuscripts and Books in North America

Border States:
Marginalia in North American Manuscripts and Printed Books

Call for Papers

Two Panels
Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
and Organized by Justin Hastings
(Department of English, Loyola University College, Chicago)

at the Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association (M-MLA)
to be held on 10-13 November 2016 at St. Louis, Missouri

I. Between Text and Page: Marginalia in Medieval Manuscripts

II. Between Manuscript Page and Printed Page — And Back Again

2016 Congress Events Proposed

Events to be Sponsored and Co-Sponsored
by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
at the 2016 International Congress on Medieval Studies (12–15 May)

2015 Congress Report

Events Sponsored and Co-Sponsored
by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
at the 2015 International Congress on Medieval Studies

14–17 May

2014 Colloquium on “When the Dust Has Settled” Accomplished

When the Dust Has Settled

(or, When Good Scholars Go Back . . . )

A Colloquium
co-sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
and the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University

Sponsors

Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
John H. Rassweiler
Celia Chazelle

The Aim
“Settled Dust Could Give Clarity of Vision”

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Marginalia in Books for 2016 M-MLA

Border States: Marginalia in North American Manuscripts and Printed Books

Two Panels Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence and Organized by Justin Hastings (Department of English, Loyola University Chicago)

at the Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association (M-MLA) to be held on 10-13 November 2016 at St. Louis, Missouri

Marginalia in Manuscripts and Books in North America

Border States: Marginalia in North American Manuscripts and Printed Books

Call for Papers

Two Panels Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence and Organized by Justin Hastings (Department of English, Loyola University College, Chicago)

at the Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association (M-MLA) to be held on 10-13 November 2016 at St. Louis, Missouri

I. Between Text and Page: Marginalia in Medieval Manuscripts

II. Between Manuscript Page and Printed Page — And Back Again

2016 Congress Events Proposed

Events to be Sponsored and Co-Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence at the 2016 International Congress on Medieval Studies (12–15 May)

2015 Congress Report

Events Sponsored and Co-Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence at the 2015 International Congress on Medieval Studies

14–17 May

2014 Colloquium on “When the Dust Has Settled” Accomplished

When the Dust Has Settled

(or, When Good Scholars Go Back . . . )

A Colloquium co-sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence and the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University

Sponsors

Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University John H. Rassweiler Celia Chazelle

The Aim “Settled Dust Could Give Clarity of Vision”

Border States:
Marginalia in North American Manuscripts and Printed Books

Two Panels
Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
and Organized by Justin Hastings
(Department of English, Loyola University Chicago)

at the Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association (M-MLA)
to be held on 10-13 November 2016 at St. Louis, Missouri

Border States:
Marginalia in North American Manuscripts and Printed Books

Two Panels
Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
and Organized by Justin Hastings
(Department of English, Loyola University College, Chicago)

at the Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association (M-MLA)
to be held on 10-13 November 2016 at St. Louis, Missouri

Events to be Sponsored and Co-Sponsored
by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
at the 2016 International Congress on Medieval Studies (12–15 May)

Events Sponsored and Co-Sponsored
by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
at the 2015 International Congress on Medieval Studies

A Colloquium
co-sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
and the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University

Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
John H. Rassweiler
Celia Chazelle

The Aim
“Settled Dust Could Give Clarity of Vision”