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France and England: Medieval Manuscripts between 700 and 1200

Paris, 21st-23rd November 2018

Auditorium Colbert (2 Rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris)


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Wednesday, 21st November

 

The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200

 

Official Opening: Partnership and Exchanges between BnF and British Library
2.00 p.m. Denis Bruckmann (Directeur des Collections, BnF)

2.10 p.m. Kristian Jensen (Head of Collections and Curation, The British Library)

 

The Collections: Medieval Manuscripts
2.20 p.m. Isabelle le Masne de Chermont (Directeur du département des Manuscrits, BnF)

2.30 p.m. Scot McKendrick (Head of Western Heritage Collections, The British Library)

 

Web Resources of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project
2.40-3.00 p.m. Hannah Gabrielle - Alison Ray (The British Library): The ‘Medieval England and France, 700-1200’ website.
3.00-3.20 p.m. Emmanuelle Bermès - Stéphane Pillorget (BnF): IIIF à la BnF: le site web France et Angleterre, manuscrits médiévaux entre 700 et 1200.

3.20-3.30 p.m. Pause

3.30-4.00 p.m. Tuija Ainonen (The British Library), Thomas Henry et Claire Séguret (BnF): Opening Medieval Manuscripts to a Larger Audience: Challenge of Social Media Culture.

 

4.00-4.30 p.m. Claudia Fabian (Executive Library Director, Head of the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich): Bibliothèques de recherche et manuscrits à l’ère du numérique : défis et partenariats internationaux.

 

 

Thursday, 22nd November

 

9.30-9.45 a.m. Charlotte Denoël and Francesco Siri (BnF, Paris): Introduction

 

Illuminated Manuscripts (Chair: Isabelle Marchesin)

 

9.45-10.15 a.m. Anne-Orange Poilpré (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): L’iconographie des Évangiles de saint Augustin et leur postérité.

10.15-10.45 a.m. Fabrizio Crivello (Università di Torino): Prolégomènes à l’étude de l’enluminure carolingienne de Sens.

10.45-11.00 a.m. Discussion

11.00-11.15 a.m. Pause

11.15-11.45 a.m. Elizabeth Morrison (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles): Founding a Visual Tradition for the Bestiary: Add. Ms. 11283.

11.45-12.15 a.m. Hanna Vorholt (University of York): Ruling and Illumination: Observations on Some Twelfth-Century Maps and Diagrams.

12.15-12.45 a.m. Kathleen Doyle (The British Library, London): Illuminating Psalters.

12.45 a.m.-1.00 p.m. Discussion


 

Writing History (Chair: Richard Gameson)

 

2.30-3.00 p.m. Benjamin Pohl (University of Bristol): Writing Universal History at Le Bec: a little-known World Chronicle in MS BnF Lat. 2342.

3.00-3.30 p.m. Stéphane Lecouteux (Ville d’Avranches / CRAHAM Caen): Les hommes et leurs livres au Moyen Âge. Échanges intellectuels dans l’espace anglo-normand (XIe-XIIe siècles).

3.30-3.45 p.m. Discussion

3.45-4.00 p.m. Pause

4.00-4.30 p.m. Laura Cleaver (Trinity College Dublin): Ralph of Diceto’s Manuscripts and the Shaping of History at the End of the Twelfth Century.

4.30-5.00 p.m. Emily Winkler (University of Oxford / University College London): Prudenter colluserat: England, France and Royal Alliances in Angevin Chronicles.

5.00-5.15 p.m. Discussion

 

 

Friday, 23rd November

 

Texts and Transmission I (Chair: Francesco Siri)

 

9.30-10.00 a.m. Laura Light (Les Enluminures, Chicago-Paris-New York): Genealogies, Chronicles, and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names: The Foigny Bible in the Broader Context of Romanesque Bibles from France and England.

10.00-10.30 a.m. Laura Albiero (BnF, Paris): Liturgical Interferences between England and France (10th-11th Centuries).

10.30-11.00 a.m. Lucile Trân-Duc (Université de Caen / CRAHAM): Echanges cultuels entre France et Angleterre (XIe-XIIe s.) : le manuscrit BnF, Latin 5362.

11.00-11.15 a.m. Discussion

11.15-11.30 a.m. Pause

11.30-12.00 a.m. Richard Gameson (Durham University): The Apostle of the English in a Manuscript from Flanders, and English and Flemish Benedictine Libraries in the Twelfth Century.

12.00-12.30 a.m. Emanuela Colombi (Università di Udine): La transmission manuscrite du 'De Trinitate' pseudo-Athanasien, et le ms. London, BL, Arundel 241.

12.30-12.45 a.m. Discussion

 

 

Texts and Transmission II (Chair: Charlotte Denoël)

 

2.30-3.00 p.m. Frédéric Duplessis (Fondation Thiers / IRHT, Paris): La diffusion en Angleterre des scholies auxerroises sur Juvénal (IXe-XIe s.).

3.00-3.30 p.m. Franck Cinato (CNRS HTL, Paris): La diffusion des signes de construction syntaxique entre la France et l’Angleterre.

3.30-3.45 p.m. Discussion

3.45-4.00 p.m. Pause

4.00-4.30 p.m. Monica H. Green (Arizona State University): Medicine in France and England in the Long Twelfth Century: Inheritors and Creators of European Medicine.

4.30-5.00 p.m. Laure Miolo (Observatoire de Paris-SYRTE UMR 8630): La Scientia stellarum entre France et Angleterre.

5.00-5.15 p.m. Discussion

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