Writing England:

Books 1000-1400

University of Leicester, 28-30 April 2010

[MS 11A, courtesy of University of Leicester Library]

The production and use of books in Medieval England reveal much about the complex matrix of competing and collaborating religious and intellectual movements, linguistic encounters, and literary and cultural developments. After the success of the Writing England Conference in 2007, we have expanded the temporal remit of the conference to exchange ideas about manuscript studies, material culture, multilingualism in texts and books, book history, readers, audience and scribes at the heart of the medieval period. Drawing upon different approaches and perspectives, this conference aims to investigate the writers, compilers, manufacture and reception of books in England between c. 1000 and 1400. ‘Writing England’ will open up the debate for an interdisciplinary study of book cultures in the Middle Ages, and allow for cross-fertilization of ideas and research interests across the period.

Confirmed speakers: Elaine Treharne (Florida State University), Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (University of York) and Tony Edwards (De Montfort University, Leicester).

CALL FOR PAPERS

We welcome paper proposals from scholars working on writers, book production and use of, and responses to texts in Latin, Insular French and English from the eleventh to the fourteenth-century. Please send a title and abstract (maximum 150 words) for a 20-minute paper, by 30 October 2009, with your contact details, to Dr Orietta Da Rold, School of English, The University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH. E.: odr1@leicester.ac.uk; T.: 0116 252 2778. 

For any further enquiries, please contact Dr Orietta Da Rold (odr1@leicester.ac.uk) or Dr Takako Kato (tk97@leicester.ac.uk)

 

                                                                                    

English Association SIG: The History of Books and Texts