The Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies at King’s College London is pleased to announce a call for papers for its first post-graduate conference on Western Palaeography to c. 1100. This one-day, interdisciplinary event seeks to foster and encourage the pursuit of late antique and early medieval paleography studies amongst a younger generation of future scholars. We welcome paper abstracts from postgraduate and post-doctoral researchers in all relevant disciplines to submit papers that are related to, but not limited, any of the following topics: -Book production in the early medieval world -Development and Nuances of ‘National’ Script Systems -Analyses of scriptoria production -Intercultural manuscript networks and transmissions of texts -Political implications of script usage -Script development, reform, and change -Famous scribes and their work -Influence of early medieval scripts and book production in later centuries -The role of palaeography in modern literary teaching -Past approaches to late antique and early medieval palaeography -Digitization efforts of late antique and early medieval manuscripts We also encourage paper submissions covering a variety of geographic areas in late antique to early medieval Western Europe. Please send a 200 word abstract (in English) for a twenty-minute paper and a short biography to palaeographyconference2014@gmail by 3rd March.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:32:40 +0000
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