The importance of being a host: new medieval fragments from the libraries of Exeter Cathedral and the University of Salamanca
- Event type
- Seminar
- Series
- Medieval Manuscripts Seminar
- Address
- Hybrid via Zoom and in Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies, Senate House Library, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
- Speakers
- Francisco Álvarez López (University of Salamanca)
- Event dates
- Contact
- IESEvents@sas.ac.uk Email only
This seminar is hybrid, held in-person and online via Zoom.
Abstract:
We often consider fragments of medieval manuscript books as the last remaining portions of long-lost codicological units. And yet the very existence of those fragments depends not just on choices made by early modern bookbinders, but on the politics of institutions that subsequently hosted them in their adopted book bindings. Starting with an exploration of two little-known fragment collections from an English medieval cathedral library and a Spanish university library dating back to 1218, this talk will explore the ways in which the two corpora (and their typologies) were shaped by dynamics inherent to the different institutions that ended up hosting them.
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