The Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies is the longest running annual conference in North America devoted exclusively to medieval and Renaissance manuscript studies. Previously organized through the Vatican Film Library, the program each year offers a variety of sessions addressing topics such as paleography, codicology, illumination, textual transmission, library history, provenance, cataloguing, and other manuscript-related material. The conference is held under the auspices of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies as a mini-conference embedded in the Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies held in June.
The plenary speakers for the 47th Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies will be Erik Kwakkel, Professor of Book History at the iSchool, University of British Columbia, and Eric Ramirez-Weaver, Associate Professor of Art and Director of the Medieval Studies Program, University of Virginia at Charlottesville.
This year I would like to issue a Call for Papers on the themes of New Directions and State of Research, either of your own work or as an analytical summary of the work of other scholars, in fields of manuscript studies that you feel especially important. These will cover research on manuscripts produced in many different locations and comprising many different texts, focusing on elements such as paleography and codicology, reception, usage and function, patronage, illumination, or whatever niche your own interests have established. Rather than forming specific thematic sessions, I would like to celebrate your individual explorations and perspectives. Please give this CFP some thought and send me proposals and abstracts (250 words or fewer) by December 31, 2019, either to me directly (susan.lengle@slu.edu) or using the Submit a Proposal button on this page.
The plenary speakers for the 47th Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies will be Erik Kwakkel, Professor of Book History at the iSchool, University of British Columbia, and Eric Ramirez-Weaver, Associate Professor of Art and Director of the Medieval Studies Program, University of Virginia at Charlottesville.
This year I would like to issue a Call for Papers on the themes of New Directions and State of Research, either of your own work or as an analytical summary of the work of other scholars, in fields of manuscript studies that you feel especially important. These will cover research on manuscripts produced in many different locations and comprising many different texts, focusing on elements such as paleography and codicology, reception, usage and function, patronage, illumination, or whatever niche your own interests have established. Rather than forming specific thematic sessions, I would like to celebrate your individual explorations and perspectives. Please give this CFP some thought and send me proposals and abstracts (250 words or fewer) by December 31, 2019, either to me directly (susan.lengle@slu.edu) or using the Submit a Proposal button on this page.
