2013 Symposium on “Identity & Authenticity”
January 1, 2014 in Abstracts of Conference Papers, Conference Announcement, Events, Exhibition
Identity & Authenticity
Creating, Recreating, Transmitting & Preserving Identities Across Time & Place
We held a Symposium at Princeton University on 22 & 23 March 2013 with the theme of “Identity & Authenticity: Creating, Recreating, Transmitting & Preserving Identities Across Time & Place”. Here we publish the Symposium Posters, Program, and Abstracts of the Papers, with thanks to all our Sponsors, Contributors, and Participants.
Symposium
Friday & Saturday 22 & 23 March 2013
McCormick 106, Princeton University
Poster 1
Poster 2
The challenges of shaping, reshaping, maintaining, conveying, and validating identity, both personal and collective, are perennial human concerns. Our symposium explored subjects, regions, and materials from the early medieval period to the present day. Presentations considered, for example, Western European and Syriac manuscript discoveries, Byzantine liturgical textiles, medieval seal-matrices and “forgeries,” Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic magical recipes from the Cairo Genizah, the transmission of Islamic paper, the reliquary of John the Baptist owned by the Knights of Malta and the Tzars, the medieval-style Hammond Castle in Massachusetts, the challenges and opportunities of collecting medieval manuscripts nowadays, and digitization projects dedicated to manuscripts and archives for teaching and research.
Sponsors:
- James Marrow and Emily Rose
- John H. Rassweiler
- Index of Christian Art
- Barbara A. Shailor
- The Samuel H. Kress Foundation
- De Brailles Medieval Art (LLC)
- Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity, Princeton University
We also thank the Department of Art & Archaeology of Princeton University for the rooms, media services, and facilities for the event.
Speakers and Moderators:
Having a Look
Opening Remarks
James H. Marrow (Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University)
Session 1. Investigating the Archives: Detecting Spheres of Influence
Moderator: Celia Chazelle (Department of History, The College of New Jersey)
Alan M. Stahl (Firestone Library, Princeton University), “The Virgin in the Garden: The Making of a Pilgrimage Site in Medieval Venice”
Eleanor A. Congdon (Department of History, Youngstown State University), “Who was Antonio Contarini? Solving the Prosopographical Riddle of a Venetian Merchant in the Datini Archives”
Ortal-Paz Saar (School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study / Tel Aviv University), “A Genizah Magical Fragment and Its European Parallels”
[Note: Now published as “A Genizah Magical Fragment and Its European Parallels”, Journal of Jewish Studies, 65:2 (2014), 237–262, described here]
Session 2. Imaging or Imagining Identity: Recreating a Medieval Legacy
Moderator: Colum Hourihane (Index of Christian Art, Princeton University)
Karl F. Morrison (Department of History, Rutgers University), “Assimilating the Libri Carolini in the Seventeenth Century”
John H. Rassweiler (The Rassweiler Collection, Princeton), “Some Experiences with the Validation of Medieval Seal-Matrices of the Common People”
Martha E. Easton (Department of Communication and the Arts, Seton Hall University), “Authenticity, Anachronism, and the Experience of the Past at Hammond Castle”
Session 3. Shaping and Preserving Identity in the Syriac Church
Moderator: Kathleen E. McVey (Department of History, Princeton Theological Seminary)
Philip Michael Forness (Department of History, Princeton Theological Seminary), “The Identities of a Saint: An Initial Inquiry into the Manuscript Tradition of the Homilies by Jacob of Sarug”
Jack B. Tannous (Department of History, Princeton University), “Syril of Scythopolis in Syriac: Observations on a Manuscript from the Sinai New Finds”
George Kiraz (Editor in Chief, Gorgias Press / Department of Middle Eastern and South-East Asian Languages & Literature, Rutgers University), “The Syriac Orthodox Patriarchal Archive of Mardin: Digitization and Challenges”
Session 4. Creating Digitally-Enabled Manuscript Resources for Research & Teaching
Moderator: James H. Marrow (Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University)
Thomas A. Carlson (Department of History, Princeton University / Beth Marduthuo Research Library, Piscataway), “Identity and Identification in the Digital Humanities: The Challenges and Experience of Syriaca.org”
Barbara A. Shailor (Department of Classics, Yale University), “A Mellon Foundation Project at Yale University: The World of Digitally-Enabled Scholarship for Research and Teaching”
Session 5. Discovering, Recovering, and Evaluating the Source Materials
Moderator: Colum Hourihane
David W. Sorenson (Quincy, Massachusetts), “Recent Studies in Islamic Paper and What They Can Tell Us About Texts (and Images)”
Mildred Budny (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence), “A New Fragment of the Vitas Patrum from the Covers of an Early Printed Postille: An Early Case of Western Paper?”
Scott Gwara (Department of English, University of South Carolina – Columbia / King Alfred’s Notebook, LLC & De Brailes Medieval Art LLC), “Medieval Manuscripts in the Strangest Places”
Enjoying the Company
Session 6. Establishing or Re-Establishing Identities in the Byzantine World and Beyond
Moderator: Mildred Budny
Henry D. Schilb (Index of Christian Art, Princeton University), “Serbian and Christian Identity in the Embroideries of the Nun Jefimija”
Rossitza B. Schroeder (Visiting Fellow in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University / Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California), “The New Chosen People: The Old Testament in Late Byzantium”
Ida Sinkevič (Department of Art, Lafayette College), “The Afterlife of the Rhodes Hand of St. John the Baptist”
[Note: This has been published here]
Demonstration: Demonstrating Original Sources and Database Resources
Displays by:
Examining the Originals
Scott Gwara (De Brailes Medieval Art LLC)
David Sorenson (Specimens of Islamic Paper)
Eleanor Congdon (Specimens from the Datini Archive)
Thomas A. Carlson (The Syriac Reference Portal)
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The Symposium Booklet, edited by Mildred Budny and laid out in RGME Bembino, contains the
2013 Symposium Program & Abstracts of the Papers.
[The version uploaded on 29 September 2014 corrects a couple of typographical mistakes in the version circulated at the event.]
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Circulated online before the Symposium, the Program and Poster 2 are also available here on the online Calendar of the Program in Medieval Studies of Princeton University:
Medieval Studies Calendar Archive Princeton University
[Formerly here: “http://web.princeton.edu/sites/medieval/images/RGME%20Symposium%20Program.pdf”]
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Photographs by James Heidere
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2003 Colloquium on “Innovations for Editing Texts”
January 1, 2014 in Conference Announcement, Events
Since 2001, the Research Group has jointly sponsored scholarly meetings, co-organized by Mildred Budny and held at various centers. These events constitute the New Series of Seminars, Workshops, Colloquia & Symposia.
The series began with
Problems and Potential of Dating Materials from the Early Medieval Period”
an Inaugural and Celebratory Workshop
held at The College of New Jersey (November 2001)
Form and Order in the Anglo-Saxon World, 400–1100”
a Colloquium
held at the British Museum (March 2002)
Then we focused on:
from Antiquity to Enlightenment”
A Colloquium
(The Ohio State University, Columbus, 2003)
Co-organized by Mildred Budny and Frank T. Coulson
Co-sponsored by
The Colloquium (sometimes also called a Workshop) was held at the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies in October 2003.
This multidisciplinary meeting examined the merits of innovations, from the Classical period onward, for editing materials of many kinds, ranging from texts and glosses, through music, drama, and rituals, to inscriptions and illustrations. The assembled experts explored problems, methods, and potential solutions for a variety of languages and types of texts, including literary as well as “unauthored” works, commentaries, and texts with single or multiple witnesses. Among the areas of concern were the extent to which Classical techniques of editing are valid for forms of evidence from the medieval and later periods.
Speakers and Moderators
Introduction and Welcome
Session 1. Historical Texts
Moderator: Barbara A. Hanawalt (Department of History and Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
The Ohio State University)
“Making Frechulf’s Histories“
“Authorial Revisions, Fluid Texts, and Contamination:
The Cases of Eriugena and William of Conches”
” ‘Man is an Animal; Man is Not an Animal’:
How John Scottus Eriugena Edited out Art”
Session 2. Computers, Digitization, and Editing
Moderator: Robert Stevick (University of Washington, Seattle)
“Sweeping the Cutting-Room Floor:
Ordered Visualization of Editorial Scraps in the Electronic Edition”
“Will the Real Edition Please Stand Out?
Negotiating Multiple Textual Representations in Digital Editions”
Longwood University, Farmville, Virginia)
“Options for Future Access:
Web Publishing and Digitizing Old French Texts”
Session 3. Latin Texts
Moderator: Ralph Hexter (Department of Classics, University of California at Berkeley)
” ‘Untrammeled Eclecticism’: Towards a New Text of Sedulius”
“The Catalogus translationum et commentariorum and the Editing of Medieval and Renaissance Commentaries”
“Problems and Challenges in the Editing of Medieval and Renaissance Commentaries”
Gil Renberg (Department of Greek and Latin, The Ohio State University)
“The Unique Text of the Passio S. Perpetuae in Monte Cassino 204 and the Group of Campanian Texts Descended from Late-Antique North African Exemplars”
Session 4. Commentaries, Glossaries, and Glosses
Moderator: Anna A. Grotans (Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University)
“Pieces on a Page:
Historical Models and Contemporary Methods of Arranging Commentary and Text”
“Editing Unauthored and Scribal Texts: Problems with Glossaries”
“Issues in Editing Syntactical Glosses”
“Cloning or Transplantation?
Options for Editing 12th-Century Commentaries on the Ars mediocinae (Articella)”
Session 5. English Vernacular Texts
Moderator: Christopher A. Jones (Department of English, The Ohio State University)
“Innovative Scribes and Unstable Texts: The Challenges of Editing Middle English Texts”
“Metrical Emendation in the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records”
“Drama Manuscripts as Self-Performing Artifacts”
Session 6. Music, Liturgy, and the Visual Arts
Moderator: Carol Neuman de Vegvar (Department of Fine Arts, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio)
“The Edition of the Gregorian Gradual”
“Editor or Audience? Problems with a Marian Officium“
“Medieval Scribal and Pictorial Editing in the Marvels of the East“
Mildred Budny (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, Princeton)
“The Once and Future CORPUS Project”
[Note: Thomas H. Ohlgren was unable to attend, so Mildred Budny presented their joint paper.]
Session 7. Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and Sources
Moderator: Mildred Budny
“Editing and Unediting the Exeter Book: A Textual Analysis”
“Spaced-out Beowulf and Aerated Alexander: A Needlessly Occult Aspect of Editing”
“The Author, the Text, and the Compiler: What’s an Editor to Do When New is Old?”
Concluding Remarks
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Photography by Raymond Cormier
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Laid out in Adobe Garamond™ by Leslie French, the Poster, Booking Form, and Program for the Colloquium are available here in pdf:
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CORPUS ‘Project Abstract’ (2003), Page 1
Release 1.0 (1994)
The presentation at the Colloquium reporting the CORPUS of Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art represents part of the long-term commitment by the Research Group to this collaborative reference tool which catalogues, indexes, and illustrates the surviving manuscript art of the British Isles for the period 650–1100 CE. In book form, it appeared as Insular and Anglo-Saxon Illuminated Manuscripts: An Iconographic Catalogue, C. A.D. 625 to 1100, compiled and edited by Thomas H. Ohlgren (1986), with contributions by many scholars. By the time of the Colloquium, the project — with Mildred Budny’s permission at Tom Ohlgren’s request — had by 1996 changed its name, inspired by the title of her then-still-forthcoming Illustrated Catalogue (1997). The CORPUS Project Abstract, prepared by Thomas Ohgren and Mildred Budny in late 2002, was circulated as a handout at the Colloqium, and now can be downloaded here.
Thomas Ohlgren’s ‘Iconographic Catalogue’ (1986)
Title Page (1986)
A Report of the “Contributions by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence” to the project in earlier years was presented by Mildred Budny at the 1993 Congress and published in the Old English Newsletter, Volume 23, Number 3 (1993), A-8 – A-23, now online. By the next year, the revised and expanded HyperText version (Release 1.0) of CORPUS had appeared (1994), followed by further updates behind the scenes over the succeeding years leading to the Project Abstract as presented at the Ohio State Colloquium.
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This Colloquium/Workshop expanded the subject of one of the Sessions sponsored by the Research Group at the 2003 Congress in May.
After this Colloquium, for the next few years, the Research Group concentrated on
The resumption of Symposia and similar Events began with
More of them followed in time. See the New Series.
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