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Texts and Contexts Conference

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October 20 - October 21, 2017
12:00AM - 12:00AM
Barbie Tootle Room, The Ohio Union, 1739 N. High Street

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Add to Calendar 2017-10-20 00:00:00 2017-10-21 00:00:00 Texts and Contexts Conference Texts and Contexts is an annual conference held on the campus of the Ohio State University devoted to Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, incunables and early printed texts in Latin and the vernacular languages. The conference solicits papers particularly in the general discipline of manuscript studies, including palaeography, codicology, reception and text history. In addition to the general papers (of roughly 20 minutes), the conference also hosts the Virginia Brown Memorial Lecture, established in memory of the late Virginia Brown, who taught paleography at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies for some 40 years.  We also welcome proposals for sessions of two to three papers which might treat a more focused topic. Please send abstracts to epig@osu.edu.  Deadline for abstracts: August 1, 2017.Virgina Brown Memorial Lecture 2017: James Hankins, Harvard UniversityGo here for more information. Barbie Tootle Room, The Ohio Union, 1739 N. High Street Department of Classics classics@osu.edu America/New_York public

Texts and Contexts is an annual conference held on the campus of the Ohio State University devoted to Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, incunables and early printed texts in Latin and the vernacular languages. The conference solicits papers particularly in the general discipline of manuscript studies, including palaeography, codicology, reception and text history. In addition to the general papers (of roughly 20 minutes), the conference also hosts the Virginia Brown Memorial Lecture, established in memory of the late Virginia Brown, who taught paleography at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies for some 40 years.  We also welcome proposals for sessions of two to three papers which might treat a more focused topic. Please send abstracts to epig@osu.edu.  Deadline for abstracts: August 1, 2017.

Virgina Brown Memorial Lecture 2017: James Hankins, Harvard University

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