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SUMMARY:Medieval Documents as Artefacts\, 1100-1600
DESCRIPTION:This conference is devoted to the physical appearance of d
 ocuments in the High and Late Middle Ages. Artefacts that survive from
  medieval written culture can roughly be divided into two categories. 
 On the one hand there are manuscripts – historical\, literary and ot
 her – which are usually kept in libraries. These objects are careful
 ly catalogued\, not just for their contents but also for their materia
 l features. Moreover\, they frequently feature in studies that are exc
 lusively interested in their physical appearance\, discussing\, for ex
 ample\, the codicology or palaeography of manuscripts from the same ge
 nre (liturgical books\, Bibles)\, location (monastic house\, region\, 
 country) or scribe. On the other hand\, a wide range of documentary ma
 terial survives from the Middle Ages\, which is kept in the archives â
 €“ charters\, registers\, cartularies\, account books and rolls\, and 
 the like. Of these archival documents\, mainly charters have been trad
 itionally studied in much detail\, quite often combining the research 
 of the external features – palaeography\, writing supports\, tags an
 d seals – with the study of the internal features\, such as language
  and text structure.\n\nHitherto\, scholars studying the material form
 s of documents kept in libraries and those researching the records pre
 served in archives seem to have been living in separate worlds. This c
 onference aims to bring them together by encouraging a material-based 
 focus in the study of documentary sources. Through a broad range of pa
 pers it will be shown what kind of studies may be most fruitful\, what
  methods may be used\, and how the physical features of documentary so
 urces may impact our understanding of their production and use.\n\nKey
  lectures will be given by\:\nProf. dr. Peter Gumbert (Leiden Universi
 ty)\nProf. dr. Benoît-Michel Tock (Université de Strasbourg)\n\nThe 
 conference is organized by the working group 'Writing and Writing Prac
 tices in the Medieval Low Countries'\, The Huygens ING\, the Regional 
 Historic Center Limburg and the Universities of Ghent and Namur
LOCATION:Maastricht
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