The SOLEMNE project has organised two sessions at this year’s IMC at Leeds, under the heading ‘States of Excerption’ (nos. 224 and 324).
In the (early) Middle Ages, learning meant collecting: the extant manuscript witnesses are filled with medieval collections made up of texts taken from (excerpts of) earlier works. These building blocks not seldom derive from texts of different genres and the resulting collection also often defies neat classification into genres. The picture becomes even more interesting when collections themselves are excerpted and their parts are used in ‘derivative’ collections.
Organised by SOLEMNE’s Gideon de Jong, and moderated by Catherine Cubitt (School of History & Art History, University of East Anglia), session 224 includes four papers addressing this theme.
- ‘Quales debeant esse pastores’: Moral Guidance for Preaching Monks
Matthieu van der Meer, Syracuse University, New York - An Early Medieval Epigraphic Sylloge as an Intentional Collection
Seán Stewart, University of Toronto - Patchworking the Truth: Some Aspects of Pseudo-Isidorius’ Textual Method of Excerpting Auctoritates
Kristina Mitalaité, Lietuvos Kultūros Tyrimų Institutas, Vilnius - ‘Hac pauperrima excerptione’, or, an Intellectual Powerhouse Disguised as a ‘Little Work’: The Case of the Collectio canonum quadripartitus
Bruno Schalekamp, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen
In session 324, three speakers explore various ways in which digital research methods help us deal with excerptions and collections on their own terms.
- Formulae of Authority
Gleb Schmitt, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen - Mapping Rhetoric: A Digital Reappraisal of Synagoga and Ecclesia in Late Antiquity
Celis Tittse, Universiteit Utrecht - Vectorising the Fathers: Using Digital Methods to Explore the Reception of Patristic Exegesis
Sven Meeder, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen
SOLEMNE’s Gideon de Jong speaks on Shifting Civic Identity in the Legal Disputes about Curial Duties in session 1123, while Jan van Doren discusses Something Fishy: Garum in Food and Medicine in the Early Middle Ages in session 514.
Following the conference, the recorded SOLEMNE sessions will be available to registered attendees for some time here and here.
