Monday, September 16, 2013 Christine Desan, Harvard Law School, Eurydice Georganteli, Harvard University, Lianna Farber, University of Minnesota, Daniel Smail, Harvard University “What is Medieval Money?” Time: 5:30pm Location: Room 110, Barker Center Chairs: Sean Gilsdorf, Luis Girón Negrón, Katharine Park, Daniel Smail, Nicholas Watson Medieval Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center Friday, September 20, 2013 John Padgett, University of Chicago “Organizational Invention and Elite Transformation: The Birth of Partnership Systems in Renaissance Florence” Time: 12:00pm Location: Room 1550, William James Hall Sponsored by the History, Culture, and Society Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop. Wednesday, September 25, 2013 Gregory T. Clark, University of the South “Beyond Use: A Digital Tool for the Analysis of Late Medieval Manuscript Books of Hours” Time: 5:00 pm Location: Room 133, Barker Center Chairs: Sean Gilsdorf, Luis Girón Negrón, Katharine Park, Daniel Smail, Nicholas Watson Co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies seminar, the Committee on Medieval Studies, and the Department of the History of Art and Architecture Abstract Over the past thirty years, the study of medieval paintings on wooden panel has been revolutionized by dendrochronological analysis of the supports themselves. The highly objective results have sometimes upheld, and at other times upended, the dating of the panels on connoisseurial and other more traditional analytical grounds. While the vellum supports of most late medieval illuminated manuscripts have not yet been subjected to a like scientific analysis, those books do enjoy a context – the accompanying texts – that can be analyzed objectively. The topic of my presentation will be a previously unpublished database of textual variants first developed in the 1970s by John Plummer of Princeton University and the Morgan Library to localize and date late medieval manuscript Books of Hours. His data up to 1981 and all of my data have just been digitized for inclusion as a CD-ROM with my forthcoming book on the Master of Morgan 453 and manuscript illumination in Paris during the English occupation (1419-1435). My recordings over the past thirty years have enabled me better to resolve vexing problems of localization in print already twice; once the database is available to all, everyone will be able to plumb and benefit from the body of evidence. Thursday, September 26, 2013 Michelle Clayton, Brown University “New World Views” Time: 5:00pm Location: Room 201, Warren House Chairs: Sergio Delgado, Mary Gaylord, Doris Sommer Hispanic Cultures Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center
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