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       Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 19:45:46 +0000
       From: Lynn Ransom <medtextl@lists.illinois.edu>
       Subject: CFP Kalamazoo 2016_Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts Sponsored Session


Call for Papers
Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts Sponsored Session
at the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 12-15, 2016
We seek proposals for the following session:

Networks of Transmission: Histories and and Practices of Collecting Medieval Manuscripts and Documents

This session will focus on the mapping of those networks of sale and purchase through which medieval manuscripts have been pursued and on the collectors and collecting that have catalyzed this transmission across the centuries. This session – like The Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts itself – is rooted in the belief that studying manuscripts’ provenance can have dynamic and profound effects not only on our understanding of these medieval materials as objects to be bought and sold but also on their texts through mapping their circulation and reception. We particularly welcome proposals that explore diverse topics from the role of digital technologies such as the SDBM in conducting provenance research, the relationship between institutional and private ownership of manuscripts, specific case studies of collecting practices, the transatlantic travels of medieval materials, collectors’ roles in the dispersal of libraries and the fragmentation of manuscripts, collectors and manuscript preservation, and how a manuscript’s provenance history can effect its value and collectability on the rare books market, to how collectors and the act of collecting can shape and influence interpretations of manuscript evidence.

Please send proposals with a one-page abstract and Participant Information Form (www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.wmich.edu_medieval_congress_submissions_index.html&d=AwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=G-cyi7bRaOTXOMfKqgcegFx7wctr8yukqRekp_Okui0&m=Q_Gs7AwWymrLu73GRnk2Babfz93qk0sHK2a0J4uOWGc&s=v5ej1QXnko3u8_EQkED0MJzw0Z3I-TXFytTXCz9RRv8&e=>) to Lynn Ransom (lransom@upenn.edu ) by September 1, 2015.



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