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Texts and Networks: infrastructures, identities, itineraries

Culture and languages

The fourth annual conference of the research program ’Modes of Modification. Variance and change in medieval manuscript culture’. All interested are welcome! (See registration information below)

Conference
Date
21 Aug 2023 - 22 Aug 2023
Location
Room C350, Humanisten, Renströmsgatan 6

Good to know
Register for the conference by sending an email to anna.blennow@sprak.gu.se
Organizer
Faculty of Humanities, Department of Languages and Literatures

Programme

Monday 21 August

09.00–09.15 Welcome and introduction

09.15–10.00
David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania
Networks and Itineraries, Transnationalism and Inter-nationality

10.00–10.45
Karl G. Johansson, University of Oslo
Compilations and Libraries and the Changes of Habits in Manuscript Culture. Texts and networks in time and space

10.45–11.00 Coffee break

11.00–11.45
Margriet Hoogvliet, University of Groningen
Questioning Transmission and Change: Shared Books and Shared Reading Practices between Clergy and Laity, Latin and Middle French in the Fifteenth Century

12.00–13.00 Lunch break

13.00–13.45
Wojtek Jezierski, University of Gothenburg
Comparative Perspective on Politico-Cultural Complexity, Elite Networks, and Textual Production in Poland and Norway, 1000–1300 CE: One Example, Several Reflections, Limitless Frustrations

13.45–14.30
Elise Kleivane, University of Oslo
Seal legends and communication networks in medieval Norway

14.30–14.45 Coffee break

14.45–15.30
Massimiliano Bampi, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Intertextual dynamics in late medieval Nordic multi-text manuscripts

15.30–16.15
Olov Lund, Stockholm university
15th Century Sweden: A Network Society?

Tuesday 22 August

09.00–09.45
Wolfgang Undorf, National Library of Sweden
Not a game of thrones – individuals and transnational connections as driving forces in Early Modern Scandinavian book history

09.45–10.30
Espen Karlsen, National Library of Norway
The provenance of medieval book fragments in light of early modern administration (1500–1725)

10.30–10.45 Coffee break

10.45–11.30
Synnøve Midtbø Myking, National Library of Denmark
Rome and the Danish Cistercians: Liber Polypticus in a 12th-century manuscript from Esrum

11.30–12.15
Anna Blennow, University of Gothenburg
Networks of Texts and Topographies in Medieval Rome