Models of Authorityhttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/2024-03-28T15:15:49+00:00Ker Demo2023-04-14T14:34:40+00:002024-03-28T15:15:49+00:00Stewart Brookeshttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/ker-demo/<p>This is a test</p>Programme for "The Book at the Bodleian"2022-03-27T20:06:50+00:002024-03-27T23:55:34+00:00Stewart Brookeshttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/the-book-at-the-bodleian/<p><img alt="Detail from Lyell MS 49" height="288" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2022/.thumbnails/lyell_49.png/lyell_49-1604x288.png" width="1604"/></p>
<p>I am delighted to share the programme for "The Book at the Bodleian: Whence? Where? Whither?".</p>
<p><span>For twenty years, </span><span>the <a href="https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/the-lyell-lectures">Lyell benefaction</a> has offered a career development fellowship that has enabled scholars to study subjects that have included the History of the Book, bibliography and palaeography. Now, these nine Lyell Fellows come together for the first time to reflect on developments in their respective fields and present their current research.</span></p>
<p><span><strong><a href="https://bookatthebod.eventbrite.co.uk">Register now</a></strong> for what promises to be a lively, engaging and thought-provoking conference! </span></p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> Monday 25th April 2022</p>
<p><strong>Venue:</strong> The Weston Lecture theatre (Oxford) and also streamed live</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Time:</strong> 11am-6pm (BST)</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>10.15am-11am: Coffee in Blackwell Hall</strong></p>
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<td><span>11am-11.15am</span></td>
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<td style="padding-left: 30px;">Richard Ovenden<br/>Welcome</td>
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<td><strong><strong>Session 1</strong></strong><strong><strong>. Chair: Nigel Wilson</strong></strong></td>
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<td><span>11.15am-11.40am</span></td>
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<td style="padding-left: 30px;">Niels Gaul<br/>"Reconstructing Transmission in the Absence of Manuscript Evidence: The Case of Classicising Learning in (Early) Ninth-century Byzantium"</td>
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<td><span>11.40am-12.05pm</span></td>
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<td style="padding-left: 30px;">Georgi Parpulov<br/>"Revolutions in the History of Greek Handwriting"</td>
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<td><span>12.05pm-12.30pm</span></td>
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<div><span>David Rundle</span></div>
"The Library of Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester: The State of Our Ignorance"</td>
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<td><span>Qs: 12.30pm-12.45pm</span></td>
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<p><strong>12.45pm-2pm: Lunch (provided for participants attending "in person")</strong></p>
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<td><strong>Session 2. Chair: Henry Woudhuysen</strong></td>
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<td><span>2pm-2.25pm</span></td>
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<td style="padding-left: 30px;">Cristina Dondi<br/>"<span>The European Printing Revolution</span>"</td>
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<td><span>2.25pm-2.50pm</span></td>
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<div><span>Irene Ceccherini</span></div>
"Italian Palaeography Through the Lenses of the Canonici Collection in the Bodleian Library"</td>
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<td><span>2.50pm-3.15pm</span></td>
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<td style="padding-left: 30px;">Barbara Bombi<br/>"<span>Papal Letters, Canonical Collections and Diplomatic</span>"</td>
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<td><span>Qs: 3.15pm-3.30pm</span></td>
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<p><strong>3.30pm-4pm: Coffee break</strong></p>
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<td><strong>Session 3<strong><strong>. Chair: Julia Smith</strong></strong></strong></td>
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<td><span>4pm-4.25pm</span></td>
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<td style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>Jason McElligott</span><br/><span>"Book Theft as a Methodology for the History of Reading"</span></td>
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<td><span>4.25pm-4.50pm</span></td>
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<div><span>Giles Bergel</span><br/><span>"Book History and the Digital Turn"</span></div>
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<td><span>4.50pm-5.15pm</span></td>
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<td style="padding-left: 30px;">Stewart J. Brookes<br/>
<div><span>"Intelligently Artificial and Palaeographically Digital"</span></div>
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<td><span>Qs: 5.15pm-5.30pm</span></td>
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<td><span>5.30pm-6pm</span></td>
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<td><span>Marc Smith and Tessa Webber: Closing remarks</span></td>
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<p><strong>6pm-7.15pm: Wine reception</strong></p>
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<p>(Image adapted from <a href="https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_7781">Lyell MS 49</a>, f. 1r, <span>late 12th cent, Austria or Germany)</span></p>Alison Phipps, "Languages and Permacultural Justice: Decoloniality and Multilingualism"2022-03-23T15:44:30+00:002024-03-27T22:47:56+00:00Stewart Brookeshttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/Westminster-Forum-2022/<p><img alt="Westminster Forum" height="277" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2022/.thumbnails/westminster_forum.jpg/westminster_forum-555x277.jpg" width="555"/></p>
<p><strong>Thursday 7th April at 5pm</strong></p>
<p>The Westminster Forum for Language and Linguistics are delighted to announce that their Annual Lecture will be given by <a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/education/staff/alisonphipps/#biography">Professor Alison Phipps</a> (University of Glasgow)<span>. Alison Phipps</span> has been spearheading debates about decolonising the study of multilingualism and her lecture "Languages and Permacultural Justice: Decoloniality and Multilingualism" will take place in Fyvie Hall at the University of Westminster (309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW). It promises to be a fascinating and thought-provoking event (see below for an abstract). The Annual Lecture will be followed by a reception. </p>
<p>Please register on <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/westminster-forum-for-language-and-linguistics-annual-lecture-2022-tickets-298010235637">Eventbrite</a></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Louise Sylvester<br/><span>[<i>s</i></span><i><span>he, her</span></i><span>]<br/></span>Professor of English Language<br/>School of Humanities<br/>Director, Westminster Forum for Language & Linguistics</p>
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<p><strong>Abstract:"Languages and Permacultural Justice: Decoloniality and Multilingualism"</strong></p>
<p>“Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.”</p>
<p>Much of the struggle against language death, or linguacide or language attrition is researched and studied under rubrics of counting and auditing the extent of the loss of diversity and economic benefits, or through the appeal to language rights. In this respect the considerable endeavours of scholarship, which have also been critiqued for the varieties of metaphors deployed – from kinship to ecology and beyond – remains within at best what Pureza (2005) refers to as the two ages of the common heritage of humankind.</p>
<p>In this talk I will consider the possibility of a third age which might see the intangible and tangible common cultural heritage of humankind as amenable to the framings and exemplars offered by the concept of cultural justice.</p>
<p>Resting on the normative directions offered by Article 27, and the critical engagement of indigenous and migrant-led scholarship with its relatedness to land, earth, lore and language, and the more than human world, I will offer some tentative suggestions as who we might consider safeguarding epistemic and ontological linguistic heritage for moving towards a third age of common heritage of humankind.</p>
<p>Starting from painful experiences taken from the decoloniality of those subject to linguicide and epistemicide this lecture will begin to elaborate regenerative and restorative ways of enabling both thinking about and through multilingualism to enable people to begin to exercise their Article 27 rights, in scholarship, in scientific endeavour, in the arts and in cultural life.</p>
<p>Expect poetry, proverbs, music, interruptions and some prose.</p>
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</div>'From Round Hand to l’Anglaise: 18th-c. English Handwriting and the Continent'2022-03-07T16:08:01+00:002024-03-27T17:44:03+00:00Stewart Brookeshttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/from-round-hand-to-langlaise-18th-c-english-handwriting-and-the-continent/<h2><img alt="Handwriting Image" height="456" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2022/.thumbnails/lyell_2020_marc_smith_web.jpg/lyell_2020_marc_smith_web-648x456.jpg" width="648"/></h2>
<h4>Professor Marc Smith will deliver the eagerly awaited conclusion to his acclaimed Lyell Lectures (2019-2020): 'From Round Hand to l’Anglaise: 18th-c. English Handwriting and the Continent'</h4>
<h4>NB: the lecture is both online and (in limited numbers) <a href="https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">in person</a> at the Weston Library, Oxford.</h4>
<h4>To book online, please register with <a href="https://lyell2020.eventbrite.co.uk">Eventbrite</a>.</h4>
<h4>To book in person, please go to the Bodleian's <a href="https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Events page</a> (registration coming soon).</h4>
<h4>But wait... can't wait until Marc Smith's lecture on 26th April? Then you can <a href="https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/lyell-lectures-2020">watch parts I-IV online</a>. And you might also like to register for <a href="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/bookatthebod/">"The Book at the Bodleian: Whence, Where, Whither?"</a>.</h4>The Book at the Bodleian: Whence? Where? Whither?2022-03-03T18:39:21+00:002024-03-28T04:14:05+00:00Stewart Brookeshttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/bookatthebod/<p><img alt="Detail from Lyell MS 49" height="288" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2022/.thumbnails/lyell_49.png/lyell_49-1604x288.png" width="1604"/></p>
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<p>I am delighted to announce that registration is now open for "The Book at the Bodleian: Whence? Where? Whither?". For twenty years, <span>the <a href="https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/the-lyell-lectures">Lyell benefaction</a> has offered a career development fellowship that has enabled scholars to study subjects that have included the History of the Book, bibliography and palaeography. Now, these nine Lyell Fellows (see below) come together for the first time to reflect on developments in their respective fields and present their current research. </span></p>
<p><span><strong><a href="https://bookatthebod.eventbrite.co.uk">Register now</a></strong> for what promises to be a lively, engaging and thought-provoking conference! </span></p>
<p><strong>UPDATE: <a href="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/the-book-at-the-bodleian/">the programme is now online</a></strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> Monday 25th April 2022</p>
<p><strong>Venue:</strong> The Weston Lecture theatre (Oxford) and also streamed live</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Time:</strong> 11am-6pm (BST)<img alt="Lyell Conference Image" height="1146" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2022/.thumbnails/lyell_flyer.jpg/lyell_flyer-1128x1146.jpg" width="1128"/></p>
<p> Images adapted from <a href="https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_7781">Lyell MS 49</a> (<span>late 12th cent, in Austria or Germany) and</span> <a href="https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_7812">Lyell MS 77</a>, f. 1r. (Padua, 1466)</p>An Introduction to Medieval Ink2022-02-21T18:52:50+00:002024-03-28T06:26:15+00:00Stewart Brookeshttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/an-introduction-to-medieval-ink/<div class="">If, like me, you've always wanted to know more about how medieval ink was made, then you'll already be heading to the <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-introduction-to-medieval-ink-tickets-274381200557">Eventbrite</a> to book a place on tomorrow morning's session (11am-12pm GMT) with Sara Charles. </div>
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<div class="">Iron gall ink has been used since Classical times, and due to its long-lasting durability it became the most common ink during the medieval period. This introductory talk will cover the history of iron gall ink and then discuss the natural ingredients used in the process, including the lifecycle of the gall wasp. The talk will last 25 minutes, followed by a 15 minute pre-recorded demonstration.</div>
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<div class=""> <img alt='Poster for "Making Medieval Ink"' height="1752" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2022/ink.jpg" width="1228"/></div>Programme for ‘Opening the Sacred Text: Meaning, Materiality, Historiography’2022-02-13T00:17:55+00:002024-03-28T09:27:03+00:00Stewart Brookeshttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/programme/<p><a href="https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/8c264b23-f6cc-4f18-98cf-9d75f7175b54/surfaces/0820ab5c-4a84-4bc2-b480-76c43f97bf5c/"><img alt="Kennicott Bible Banner" height="126" src="https://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/media/uploads/DigiPal/bodleian_kennicot_1-f123r.jpg" width="459"/></a></p>
<h5>We are delighted to share the programme for ‘Opening the Sacred Text: Meaning, Materiality, Historiography’.</h5>
<h5>Details below, or <a href="https://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/media/uploads/Blog/2022/programme_2b.pdf">download the PDF</a>.</h5>
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<h5>Very much looking forward to seeing you there!</h5>
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<h5>Best, Stewart and Julie</h5>
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<p>If you've not registered yet, it's not too late. Just go to <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/opening-the-sacred-text-meaning-materiality-historiography-tickets-235877404667">Eventbrite</a></p>
<p>NB: times are GMT and the conference will be held on Zoom. </p>
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<td>2.15pm: Welcome to 'Opening the Sacred Text'</td>
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<td><strong>Session 1. </strong>Chair: Andrew Dunning</td>
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<td><span>2.30pm-2.50pm</span></td>
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<td>• Stewart Brookes<br/> "Carpet Pages: What?"</td>
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<td><span>2.50pm-3.10pm</span></td>
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<td>• Carol Farr<br/> "Unravelling the Insular Carpet Page: Needs and Responses in Book Art"</td>
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<td><span>3.10pm-3.30pm</span></td>
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<td>• William Endres<br/> "An Insular Meditative Sequence: Sorting Out the Evolving Complexity of Interplay among Cross-Carpet and Other Decorative Pages as Preparation for Entering a Gospel"</td>
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<td><span>Qs: 3.30pm-3.50pm</span></td>
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<td><strong>Session 2.</strong> Chair: Catherine Karkov</td>
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<td><span>4.10pm-4.30pm</span></td>
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<td>• Bernard Meehan<br/> "Roman Mosaics, Early Christian Architecture and the Books of Durrow and Kells"</td>
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<td><span>4.30pm-4.50pm</span></td>
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<td>• Laura McCloskey Wolfe<br/> "Mimesis and Metamorphosis in Irish Manuscript Illumination: A Comparative Analysis of Metalwork Techniques and Textual Decoration in the Book of Durrow"</td>
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<td><span>4.50pm-5.10pm</span></td>
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<td>• Christine Bachman<br/> "Holistic Visions: Connecting Book Covers and Ornamental Pages in Early Medieval Manuscripts’l"</td>
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<td><span>Qs: 5.10pm-5.30pm</span></td>
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<td>2.15pm: Welcome to Day 2</td>
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<td><strong>Session 3.</strong> Chair: Reed O'Mara</td>
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<td><span>2.30pm-2.50pm</span></td>
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<td>• Rose Walker<br/> "Opening Iberian Sacred Books from the Tenth to the Early Thirteenth Centuries"</td>
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<td><span>2.50pm-3.10pm</span></td>
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<td>• Dalia-Ruth Halperin<br/> "Reciprocal Ties Between the Calligraphic Frames in Sefardi Bibles and the Text and Images in their Micrography Carpets: Variant Regional Emphasis"</td>
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<td><span>3.10pm-3.30pm</span></td>
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<td>• Elina Gertsman<br/> "Untethered Image"</td>
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<td><span>Qs: 3.30pm-3.50pm</span></td>
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<td><strong>Session 4. </strong>Chair: Aleksandra Buncic</td>
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<td><span>4.10pm-4.30pm</span></td>
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<td>• Eva Hoffman<br/> "The 'Carpet Page' A Space of Exchange Between Religion and Culture"</td>
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<td><span>4.30pm-4.50pm</span></td>
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<td>• Cailah Jackson<br/> "Opening the Islamic Book in Medieval Konya: Illuminated Pointed Ovals and Their Possible Sources"</td>
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<td><span>Qs: 4.50pm-5.10pm</span></td>
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<th><strong>Day 3: Wednesday 23 February 2022</strong></th>
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<td>2.15pm: Welcome to Day 3</td>
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<td><strong>Session 5. </strong>Chair: Lisa Fagin Davis</td>
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<td><span>2.30pm-2.50pm</span></td>
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<td>• Georgi Parpulov<br/> "The Frontispiece Miniatures of the Oldest Arabic Gospel Book"</td>
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<td><span>2.50pm-3.10pm</span></td>
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<td>• Anastasija Ropa<br/> "Ornamental Frontispieces in Slavic Orthodox Gospels"</td>
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<td><span>3.10pm-3.30pm</span></td>
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<td>• Jacopo Gnisci<br/> "Woven Prayers: Carpet Pages in Ethiopian Manuscripts"</td>
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<td><span>Qs: 3.30pm-3.50pm</span></td>
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<td><strong>Session 6. </strong>Chair: Susan Boynton</td>
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<td><span>4.10pm-4.30pm</span></td>
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<td>• Elvira Martín-Contreras<br/> "Decorative and Textual: Carpet Pages in the Earliest Hebrew Bible Codices"</td>
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<td><span>4.30pm-4.50pm</span></td>
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<td>• Julie Harris<br/> "The Sense of an Ending: Finispieces in the Iberian Bible Codices"</td>
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<td><span>Qs: 4.50pm-5.10pm</span></td>
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<td><span>5.10pm-5.30pm</span></td>
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<td>• Stewart J. Brookes and Julie Harris<br/> Closing remarks</td>
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<p></p>Welcome to Models of Authority 2022!2022-01-19T15:52:10+00:002024-03-28T12:00:10+00:00Stewart Brookeshttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/happy-new-year/<p>Happy New Year!</p>
<p>Things may have seemed somewhat quiet on the Models of Authority front for the last few years. But... rest assured, we've been working away behind the scenes, creating metadata, commissioning new high-resolution images of charters and adding transcriptions and translations! Our plans over the next few months are to make that material visible on the public website so that you can start using it. We're very excited about that and looking forward to letting you see what we've been up to! To whet your appetites, below is a sneak preview of a detail from <a href="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/digipal/manuscripts/484/">DCA DCD Misc Ch. 742</a>.</p>
<p>In other news, we are <strong>delighted</strong> to announce that <a href="https://lincoln.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-stewart-brookes">Stewart Brookes</a> and <a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/joannatucker/">Joanna Tucker</a> are now the Co-Directors of the Models of Authority project. We thank the<a href="https://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/about/project-team/"> team</a> for all of their hard work and fantastic scholarship over the course of the project, and are especially grateful to <a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/dauvitbroun/">Dauvit Broun</a> (former project PI) for dreaming up this project and for generously entrusting its future to us. And, of course, we very much look forward to our continued and productive collaboration with our Models of Authortiy colleagues!</p>
<p>With very best wishes for 2022, and keep safe, Stewart and Joanna</p>
<p><img alt="DCA DCS Misc Ch 742" height="971" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2021/.thumbnails/dca_dcd_misc_ch_742.jpg/dca_dcd_misc_ch_742-2053x971.jpg" width="2053"/></p>Registration opens for "Opening the Sacred Text: Meaning, Materiality, Historiography"2021-12-31T13:10:44+00:002024-03-28T02:13:20+00:00Stewart Brookeshttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/carpet-pages/<p class="Body"><a href="https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/8c264b23-f6cc-4f18-98cf-9d75f7175b54/surfaces/0820ab5c-4a84-4bc2-b480-76c43f97bf5c/"><img alt="Kennicott Bible Banner" src="https://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/media/uploads/DigiPal/bodleian_kennicot_1-f123r.jpg"/></a></p>
<h4 class="Body"><b>Dates: <span>Monday 21 February 2022 – Wednesday 23 February 2022</span></b></h4>
<p class="Body"><b>Place:</b><span> Online, via a Zoom link that we'll send by email to registered participants </span></p>
<p class="Body"><b>How to register:</b><span> Using <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/opening-the-sacred-text-meaning-materiality-historiography-tickets-235877404667">Eventbrite</a></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span><strong>Update: </strong><a href="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/programme/">The programme is now online</a></span></p>
<p class="Body">We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for "Opening the Sacred Text: Meaning, Materiality, Historiography". Bringing together scholars from around the world, we will explore the decorative frontispieces and so-called carpet pages that are a remarkable feature of manuscripts from diverse cultures, including Islam, Judaism and Christianity.</p>
<p class="Body">The conference will run over three days (Monday 21 February 2022 – Wednesday 23 February 2022), with a 2pm GMT start each day. We hope that the timing and online format will make the conference accessible to as many people as possible.</p>
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<p class="Body"><strong>Confirmed speakers include:</strong></p>
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<li class="Body">Stewart J. Brookes: "Carpet Pages: What?"</li>
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<li class="Body">Christine Bachman: "Holistic Visions: Connecting Book Covers and Ornamental Pages in Early Medieval Manuscripts"</li>
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<li class="Body">William Endres, "An Insular Meditative Sequence: Sorting Out the Evolving Complexity of Interplay among Cross-Carpet and Other Decorative Pages as Preparation for Entering a Gospel"</li>
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<li class="Body">Carol Farr, "Unravelling the Insular Carpet Page: Needs and Responses in Book Art"<span> </span></li>
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<li class="Body"><span>Elina Gertsman, "Untethered Image"</span></li>
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<li class="Body">Jacopo Gnisci, "Woven Prayers: Carpet Pages in Ethiopian Manuscripts" </li>
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<li class="Body">Dalia-Ruth Halperin, "Reciprocal Ties Between the Calligraphic Frames in Sefardi Bibles and the Text and Images in their Micrography Carpets: Variant Regional Emphasis"</li>
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<li class="Body"><span>Julie Harris, "The Sense of an Ending: Finispieces in the Iberian Bible Codices"</span></li>
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<li class="Body">Eva Hoffman, "The “Carpet Page”: A Space of Exchange Between Religion and Culture"</li>
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<li class="Body">Cailah Jackson, "Opening the Islamic Book in Medieval Konya: Illuminated Pointed Ovals and Their Possible Sources"</li>
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<li class="Body">Elvira Martín-Contreras, "Decorative and Textual: Carpet Pages in the Earliest Hebrew Bible Codices"</li>
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<li>Bernard Meehan, "Roman Mosaics, Early Christian Architecture and the Books of Durrow and Kells"</li>
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<li><span>Georgi Parpulov, "</span>‘The Frontispiece Miniatures of the Oldest Arabic Gospel Book"</li>
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<li>Anastasija Ropa, "Ornamental Frontispieces in Slavic Orthodox Gospels"</li>
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<li>Rose Walker, "Opening Iberian Sacred Books from the Tenth to the Early Thirteenth Centuries"</li>
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<li>Laura McCloskey Wolfe, "Mimesis and Metamorphosis in Irish Manuscript Illumination:<span> </span>A Comparative Analysis of Metalwork Techniques and Textual Decoration in the Book of Durrow"<span> </span> </li>
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<p class="Body">We very much hope that you can join us and look forward to seeing you there,</p>
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<p class="Body">(Images are from <a href="https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/Discover/Search/#/?p=c+0,t+,rsrs+0,rsps+10,fa+,so+ox%3Asort%5Easc,scids+,pid+8c264b23-f6cc-4f18-98cf-9d75f7175b54,vi+0820ab5c-4a84-4bc2-b480-76c43f97bf5c">Bodleian Library, Kennicott 1, f. 123r</a> and <a href="http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_nero_d_iv_f002v">British Library, Cotton Nero D.iv, f. 2v</a>) </p>Feature/Component Example2019-09-19T17:28:47+00:002024-03-24T11:31:52+00:00Stewart Brookeshttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/featurecomponent-example/<p>Clicking on the thumbnail below will action a search for "Limb: Extended and turned left"</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/digipal/search/facets/?allograph=m&page=1&img_is_public=1&locus=face&_st_allograph=o&chartype=letter&feature=final+limb+extended%2C+turned+left&view=grid&result_type=graphs&_xp_allograph=1"><img height="89" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/FOM/.thumbnails/em.jpg/em-89x89.jpg" width="89"/></a></p>Line-up for Leeds International Medieval Congress 2017...2016-12-15T18:22:00+00:002016-12-16T11:55:15+00:00Stewart Brookeshttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/leeds-imc-2017/<p>The Models of Authority team and DigiPal are delighted to announce that between us we are sponsoring five sessions at the <a href="http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125137/international_medieval_congress">International Medieval Congress</a> at Leeds next year (Monday 3rd July to Thursday 6th July 2017). Subjects covered will include diplomatic, palaeography, Scottish charters, Digital Humanities, the implications of the use of digital surrogates and IIIF. Almost a mini conference in itself! But enough preamble, listed below are the sessions and their respective papers.</p>
<p>We very much look forward to seeing you at some or (for inveterate set collectors) even all of them.</p>
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<td>Tuesday 4th July: 4.30pm-6pm</td>
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<td>• Alice Taylor (King's College London)<br/> "Institutional Interplay and Diplomatic Form in Royal and Non-Royal Acta, c. 1170-1250"</td>
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<td>• Teresa Webber (University of Cambridge)<br/> "Lay Grantors and Handwriting as an Image of Authority in Scottish Charters, c. 1200-1250"</td>
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<td>• John Reuben Davies (University of Glasgow)<br/> "Beneficiary Archives and Diplomatic Models in the Non-Royal Charters of Scotland, c. 1100-1250"</td>
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<td>Wednesday 5th July: 9am-10.30am</td>
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<td>• Joanna Tucker (University of Glasgow)<br/> "Rethinking Cartulary Manuscripts from 13th-Century Scotland"</td>
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<td>• Dauvit Broun (University of Glasgow)<br/> "Investigating Single Sheet Copies with Anachronistic Features of Handwriting and Diplomatic"</td>
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<td>• Matthew H. Hammond (University of Glasgow)<br/> "Tracing the Use of Status Titles in Scottish Charters"</td>
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<td>Thursday 6th July: 9am-10.30am</td>
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<td>• Stewart J. Brookes (King's College London)<br/> "Models of Authority: All About that Database"</td>
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<td>• Michael MacPherson (University of Iceland, Reykjavík)<br/> "Towards Digital Palaeographical Handbooks for Vernacular Scripts: Some Desiderata from the Perspective of Old Icelandic Script"</td>
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<td>• Peter A. Stokes (King's College London)<br/> "The Problem of Multigraphism: A Digital Approach to Transversal Palaeography"</td>
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<td>Thursday 6th July: 11.15am-12.45pm</td>
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<td>• Keri Thomas (Independent Scholar, Aberystwyth)<br/> "The Practical and Theoretical Consequences of the Use of Digital Surrogates"</td>
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<td>• Bill Endres (University of Oklahoma)<br/> "Color Literacy: What Every Medievalist Should Know Who Has Taken a Photo of a Manuscript with a Smartphone and Thought, It Might Be a Palimpsest"</td>
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<td>• Thomas Konidaris (Universität Hamburg)<br/> "Image Processing Methods for Determining Visual Manuscript and Character Features"</td>
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<td>Thursday 6th July: <span>2.15pm-3.45pm</span></td>
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<td>• Samuel Rubenson (Lunds Universitet)<br/> "Formative Wisdom"</td>
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<td>• Matthew L. Holford (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford)<br/> "Manuscript Cataloguing in a Digital Age"</td>
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<td>• Cai Henderson (University of Toronto)<br/> "<span>De-Localising the Archive: Uses and Applications of IIIF for Medieval Manuscript Repositories"</span></td>
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</table>Call for Papers for Leeds International Medieval Congress, 2017...2016-09-20T17:19:58+00:002016-09-22T17:26:45+00:00Stewart Brookeshttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/cfp-leeds-2017/<div><strong>Event: International Medieval Congress</strong></div>
<div><strong>Place: University of Leeds</strong><br/><strong>Date: 3rd-6th July 2017</strong><br/><strong>Needed: You ;-)</strong><br/><br/>Models of Authority and DigiPal are delighted to be organising two digital methods sessions at Leeds 2017 <br/><br/>Session 1: "Digital Methods 1: Computer-Assisted Approaches to Palaeography"<br/><br/>Session 2: "Digital Methods 2: Computer-Assisted Approaches to Manuscript Studies"<br/><br/>Interested? Then send us an abstract! It's all pretty simple really. All you need to do is read the blurbs below; decide which session suits you best; and then send an abstract of a couple of hundred words or so (we won't count them, but try not to overdo it) to <a href="mailto:stewart.brookes@kcl.ac.uk">stewart.brookes@kcl.ac.uk</a> by 28th September 2016.<br/><br/>Looking forward to reading your abstracts, <br/><br/>Stewart</div>
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<div>"Digital Methods 1: Computer-Assisted Approaches to Palaeography"</div>
<div><br/>Taking palaeography and codicology as its focus, this session will consider how computer-assisted techniques might advance our understanding of the handwriting of medieval scribes.<br/><br/>"Digital Methods 2: Computer-Assisted Approaches to Manuscript Studies"<br/><br/>The large number of initiatives to digitise medieval manuscripts mean that we now have unprecedented access to medieval texts. In many ways, this explosion of knowledge can be compared to the early years of the printing press. But how might we best utilise this growing body of material? This session will explore the potential for the computer-assisted study of medieval manuscripts; discuss the intersection of manuscript studies and Digital Humanities; and share methodologies. The topics under discussion will include the encoding and transcription of medieval texts, the practical and theoretical consequences of the use of digital surrogates and the visualisation of manuscript evidence and data.</div>Directions to K4U.12, Strand Campus, King's College London...2016-09-02T15:58:02+00:002016-09-21T16:10:31+00:00Stewart Brookeshttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/directions-to-k4u12/<p>Over the years, the DigiPal Symposium has convenved in a number of different venues, from the Council Room at our very own King's College London to the salubrious and welcoming surroundings of the University of Westminster. This time around, to celebrate our "iron" anniversary, we've gone for stylish and have managed to secure the wittily named K4U.12 on the Strand Campus.[1] While K4U.12 has a lot of obvious things going for it, a slight drawback is locating the room in the warren that is the Strand bulding. So... here is another installment in our ever-popular <a href="http://www.digipal.eu/blog/directions-to-nash-lecture-theatre-k231/">series</a> "how do I find the room?". We hope the step-by-step photoguide below will assist in your quest to... well... find the room. Are you browsing comfortably? Then we'll begin.</p>
<p>First of all, you'll need to make your way to the entrance to the Strand campus of King's College London (WC2R 2LS). See the <a href="https://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=207659612591354997435.00046f60aad34f575ff58&msa=0&dg=feature">map</a> below.</p>
<p><img height="488" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2016/.thumbnails/map-842x488.jpg/map-842x488-842x488.jpg" width="842"/></p>
<p>The next step is to navigate your way safely through the revolving doors at the front of the building:</p>
<p><img height="451" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2016/.thumbnails/directions1.jpg/directions1-800x451.jpg" width="800"/></p>
<p>Once through, you'll spy a reception/help desk to the right of you. Keep walking straight, ignoring the lifts on your right:</p>
<p><img height="451" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2016/.thumbnails/directions2.jpg/directions2-800x451.jpg" width="800"/></p>
<p>You'll pass under a reddish crossbeam and pillars and will find yourself heading down a long corridor, past a cupboard containing cleaning materials on your left (don't panic if you miss this landmark):</p>
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<p>Travel down the corridor for several minutes: </p>
<p><img height="324" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2016/.thumbnails/directions4.jpg/directions4-576x324.jpg" width="576"/></p>
<p>You'll come to an entrance on the left which gives access to some lifts. Turn left in this direction:</p>
<p><img height="324" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2016/.thumbnails/directions6.jpg/directions6-576x324.jpg" width="576"/></p>
<p>Next, call a lift, and enter (photo unavailable, leaving this as an exercise to the reader).</p>
<p>Press the button numbered 4 to instruct the transportation device to ascend to the fourth floor:</p>
<p><img height="324" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2016/.thumbnails/directions7.jpg/directions7-576x324.jpg" width="576"/></p>
<p>Exit the lift and turn right:</p>
<p><img height="324" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2016/.thumbnails/directions8.jpg/directions8-576x324.jpg" width="576"/></p>
<p>And then continue down the corridor, ignoring the staircase on your right:</p>
<p><img height="324" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2016/.thumbnails/directions10.jpg/directions10-576x324.jpg" width="576"/></p>
<p>Ahead of you, you'll see some stairs that, in the interests of efficient navigation, it would be preferable that you did not ignore. Proceed toward these:</p>
<p><img height="324" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2016/.thumbnails/directions11.jpg/directions11-576x324.jpg" width="576"/></p>
<p>Walk up the flight of stairs, being careful not to collide with the other participants (not illiustrated) who will no doubt be as keen as you to scramble to the Symposium:</p>
<p><img height="576" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2016/.thumbnails/directions12.jpg/directions12-324x576.jpg" width="324"/></p>
<p>You are nearly there. Ahead of you, you will see a door. Open it[2], and enter:</p>
<p><img height="576" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2016/.thumbnails/directions13.jpg/directions13-324x576.jpg" width="324"/></p>
<p>You have arrived at your destination. Congratulations!</p>
<p><img height="324" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2016/.thumbnails/directions14.jpg/directions14-576x324.jpg" width="576"/></p>
<p>Very much looking forward to seeing you in K4U.12!</p>
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<p>[1] K4U presumably textspeak for "King's For You". See what they did there?</p>
<p>[2] If the door is already open, you may wish to skip this step.</p>Programme for DigiPal VI: The Palaeography Awakens...2016-09-01T00:42:44+00:002016-09-07T17:28:57+00:00Stewart Brookeshttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/programme-for-digipal-vi/<p><strong>Date:</strong> Monday 5th September 2016</p>
<p><strong>Time:</strong> 9.30am-7pm</p>
<p><strong>Venue:</strong> <a href="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/directions-to-k4u12/">Room K4U.12</a>, King's College London, Strand WC2R 2LS</p>
<p><strong>Co-sponsors:</strong> <a href="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/">Models of Authority</a> and <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/centres/clams/index.aspx">Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies</a></p>
<p>After all the frenzied speculation on <a href="https://twitter.com/shadychars/status/770628980126851072">Twitter</a>, we decided it was time to put the <a href="https://twitter.com/ETreharne/status/770626078343704576">rumours</a> to rest and reveal the final line-up and programme for DigiPal VI next week (see below). Psyched? We are! And the good news is that it's still not too late to register if you'd like to be part of the most rock'n'roll, cutting-edgy, medieval manuscript-inflected Digital Humanities Symposium taking place at King's College London next Monday. Registering is easy: just <a href="https://digipal-vi.eventbrite.com/">sign-up with Eventbrite</a>. There's no charge for registering and a free lunch is included. What more could you want? </p>
<p>Well... this year, as a special treat to celebrate our sixth anniversary, we are delighted to offer some bookish prizes, generously donated by <a href="http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/books/">Keith Houston</a>. The rules are simple: <a href="https://digipal-vi.eventbrite.com/">register for the Symposium</a>; turn up; and you're in with a chance!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/books/"><img height="341" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/News/2016/.thumbnails/thebook.jpg/thebook-523x341.jpg" width="523"/></a></p>
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<p>Very much looking forward to seeing you next week,</p>
<p>Stewart Brookes and Peter Stokes</p>
<h2>Programme</h2>
<p><strong>9.30am</strong> Registration and coffee</p>
<p><strong>9.50am</strong> Welcome</p>
<p><strong>10am </strong>Session 1. Chair: Johanna Green (University of Glasgow)</p>
<p> 1. Erik Kwakkel (Leiden University)<br/> "Reading an Invisible Manuscript: Using MA-XRF to Trace Medieval Fragments<br/> Inside Book Bindings" </p>
<p> 2. Emma Cayley (University of Exeter)<br/> "Rethinking Medieval Materiality: The Curious Case of the Hotel Carpet"</p>
<p><strong>11am</strong> Coffee</p>
<p><strong>11.30am</strong> Session 2. Chair: Louise Sylvester (University of Westminster)</p>
<p> 3. Charles Farris (University of Westminster)<br/> "The Challenge of Royal Wardrobe Accounts"</p>
<p> 4. Anna Dlabačová (Université catholique de Louvain)<br/> and Giacomo Signore (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)<br/> "Mapping Miscellanies. Possible Approaches to Miscellaneous Manuscript Analysis"</p>
<p> 5. Peter Cornwell (University of Westminster)<br/> "Rhetorics and Pragmatics of Sustainability in Research Employing Digital Methods"</p>
<p><strong>1pm</strong> Lunch (vegetarian sandwiches for all attendees)</p>
<p><strong>2pm </strong>Session 3. Chair: Lois Lane (King's College London)</p>
<p> 6. Stewart Brookes (King's College London)<br/> "Models of Authority as an Agent of Holistic Detection"</p>
<p> 7. Dauvit Broun (University of Glasgow)<br/> "Assessing the Authenticity of Melrose Abbey's Earliest Charter"</p>
<p> Tessa Webber (University of Cambridge<br/> "Dating Charters and Tracing Influence with Models of Authority"</p>
<p> John Reuben Davies (University of Glasgow)<br/> "Chasing Models Through Melrose, St Andrews and Holyrood"</p>
<p> Alice Taylor (King's College London)<br/> "Understanding Diplomatic Practice through the Models of Authority Database:<br/> the Melrose Abbey Charters as Case Study"</p>
<p> 8. Débora Marques de Matos (King's College London/Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)<br/> "SephardiPal as a Tool for Digital Connoisseurship'</p>
<p><strong>3.30pm</strong> Coffee</p>
<p><strong>4pm</strong> Session 4: Chair: Dominique Stutzmann (Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes;<br/> Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) </p>
<p> 9. Vincenzo Damiani (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)<br/> "Anagnosis – A Text-image Alignment Tool for Greek Papyri"</p>
<p> 10. Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert (British Library)<br/> "Digitisation, Engagement and Digital Scholarship: The Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project"</p>
<p> 11. Tom Haines (University College London)<br/> "My Text in Your Handwriting"</p>
<p><strong>5.30pm</strong> Comfort break</p>
<p><strong>5.45pm</strong> Session 5. Chair: Tadashi Kotake</p>
<p> 12. Alison Hudson (British Library)<br/> "Archbishop Wulfstan’s School Days"</p>
<p> 13. Peter Stokes (King's College London)<br/> "MultiPal: Towards a Digital Palaeographical Approach to Multigraphism"</p>
<p><strong>6.45pm</strong> Closing words</p>DigiPal VI: The Palaeography Awakens...2016-08-11T15:18:53+00:002016-09-01T11:09:44+00:00Stewart Brookeshttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/digipal-vi/<p><img src="http://www.digipal.eu/media/uploads/images/blog_posts/2014/.thumbnails/SymposiumIV_small.jpg/SymposiumIV_small-500x233.jpg"/></p>
<p>It's been a bit of a mixed bag of a summer. But at least there are some things on which we can rely. Like... Like? Like a referendum is only asking for trouble. Like "g" remains one of the most investigated letters in the palaeographer's alphabet. And that the people who brought you the internationally acclaimed DigPal I - Digipal V would not be able to resist the temptation to do it all again. And so, with the last in mind... the Models of Authority team are delighted to announce that the successor to DigiPal V, cunningly titled "DigiPal VI", will take place at King's College London on Monday 5th September 2016. Expect the usual mix of palaeography, mansucript studies and computer-assisted approaches to the aforementioned. </p>
<p>The Symposium will run from 9.30am-7pm, with refreshments and lunch included. If you'd like to attend, then please <a href="https://digipal-vi.eventbrite.com">register via Eventbrite</a>. There's no charge for registration, but please do register so that we know how many we need to cater for.</p>
<p>Further details will be <a href="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/programme-for-digipal-vi/">posted here</a> soon, but in the meanwhile, please see the list of confirmed speakers below. </p>
<p>Looking forward to seeing you in September,</p>
<p>Stewart Brookes and Peter Stokes</p>
<h2>Confirmed speakers include:</h2>
<p><span>Dauvit Broun</span></p>
<p><span></span>Emma Cayley</p>
<p><span>Peter Cornwell</span></p>
<p><span></span>Vincenzo Damiani</p>
<p>John Reuben Davies</p>
<p>Anna Dlabačová</p>
<p>Charles Farris</p>
<p>Tom Haines</p>
<p>Alison Hudson</p>
<p>Débora Marques de Matos</p>
<p>Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert</p>
<p>Erik Kwakkel</p>
<p>Giacomo Signore</p>
<p>Peter Stokes</p>
<p>Alice Taylor</p>
<p>and </p>
<p>Tessa Webber</p>Models of Authority at Leeds IMC 20162016-07-04T10:53:31+00:002016-07-04T11:52:05+00:00Stewart Brookeshttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/models-of-authority-at-leeds-imc-2016/<p>The Models of Authority project is delighted to be sponsoring <a href="https://imc.leeds.ac.uk/dbsql02/AQueryServlet?*id=8&*formId=1&*context=IMC&conference=2016&sponsor_UTF8=Arts%2B%2526%2BHumanities%2BResearch%2BCouncil%2BProject%2B%2527Models%2Bof%2BAuthority%253A%2BScottish%2BCharters%2B%2526%2Bthe%2BEmergence%2Bof%2BGovernment%252C%2B1100-1250%2527&*servletURI=https://imc.leeds.ac.uk/dbsql02/AQueryServlet">three sessions</a> at the Leeds International Medieval Congress this year, plus there's a paper by Joanna Tucker, the project PhD student (though this involves a dastardly session clash).</p>
<p>And if that's not excitement enough, anyone who attends one of our sessions is in with a very good chance of nabbing one of our highly-collectible, second edition bookmarks (as illustrated below in an early draft-form because my mobile phone has given up the ghost and so I can't snap the final version. Grrr.. technology!).</p>
<p><img height="199" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/News/2016/.thumbnails/bookish.png/bookish-780x199.png" width="780"/></p>
<p><span>Your first chance to get a bookmark is:</span></p>
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<td>Session 432: Monday 4 July 2016: 7pm-8pm</td>
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<td>With Renaud Alexandre (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris), Ainoa Castro Correa (King's College London), and David F. Johnson (Florida State University). The moderator (c'est moi!), may throw in his two penn'orth also.</td>
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<td>Abstract: The large number of initiatives to digitise medieval manuscripts mean that we now have unprecedented access to medieval texts. In many ways, this explosion of knowledge can be compared to the early years of the printing press. But how might we best utilise this growing body of material? This round table will explore the potential for the computer-assisted study of medieval manuscripts, discuss the practical and theoretical consequences of the use of digital surrogates, and present new methodologies for the visualisation of manuscript evidence and data.</td>
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<p><span> Next up is: </span></p>
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<td>Tuesday 5 July 2016: 09.00am-10.30am</td>
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<td>Stewart J. Brookes (King's College London): "Models of Authority: Charting New Territory for Medieval Scottish Charters"</td>
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<td>Lisa Fagin Davis (Medieval Academy of America): "DigiPal and the Austrian Romanesque: A Case Study in Aspirational Paleography"</td>
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<td>Ainoa Castro Correa (King'’s College London) : "VisigothicPal: la escritura visigótica al descubierto"</td>
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<td>Abstract: The growing field of Digital Palaeography uses a variety of computer-assisted technologies to address scholarly research questions. In this session, databases created (or aspirationally created) using the DigiPal framework will be used to investigate three different corpora: medieval Scottish charters, twelfth-century Upper Austrian monastic writing, and Visigothic script from the medieval Iberian Peninsula. Presenting desiderata for their respective fields, the papers explore the potential offered by Digital Palaeography, and DigiPal in particular, to interrogate medieval script in ways which would not be feasible using traditional palaeographic methods.</td>
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<p><span>Your third and final chance for a bookmark (or to collect an enviable set of three) is:</span></p>
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<td>Tuesday 5 July 2016: 11.15am-12.45pm</td>
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<td>Peter A. Stokes (King's College London): "What is Digital Palaeography, Really?"</td>
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<td>Dominique Stutzmann (Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique): "Paris Space between Words (13th-15th Centuries): Computer Vision and Medieval Linguistic Consciousness"</td>
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<td>Bill Endres (University of Oklahoma): "Transformed Materiality: Advanced Imaging Techniques and the Study of Medieval Manuscripts"</td>
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<td>Abstract: This session will explore the potential for the computer-assisted study of medieval manuscripts; discuss the intersection of manuscript studies and Digital Humanities; demonstrate the potential offered by advanced imaging techniques; and share methodologies and conceptual frameworks.</td>
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<p>And finally, or rather alternatively unless you are an inveterate session-hopper:</p>
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<td>Tuesday 5 July 2016: 11.15am-12.45pm</td>
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<td>Joanna Tucker (University of Glasgow): "Investigating Complex Cartularies: The Earliest Examples From Scotland:</td>
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</table>Manuscripts from Wales, AD 800-12502016-05-21T11:02:53+00:002016-05-24T11:38:11+00:00Stewart Brookeshttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/manuscripts-from-wales-ad-800-1250/<h2 class="sys_events-record-title"><span>Location: </span><span><a href="http://www.digipal.eu/blog/directions-to-nash-lecture-theatre-k231/">Council Room (K2.29)</a>, King's Building, Strand Campus</span></h2>
<h2 class="sys_events-record-title"><span></span><span>When: Tuesday </span><span>24th May 2016 (2pm-6pm)</span></h2>
<dl class="sys_record-details-control sys_events-details"><dt class="sys_events-registrationurl"><a href="https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FF-00004-00042/14"><img height="480" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/News/2016/.thumbnails/cul_juvencas_6r.jpg/cul_juvencas_6r-1111x480.jpg" width="1111"/></a></dt><dt class="sys_events-registrationurl"></dt><dt class="sys_events-registrationurl"></dt><dt class="sys_events-registrationurl"></dt><dt class="sys_events-registrationurl"></dt><dt class="sys_events-registrationurl">Register here: <a href="http://welshmanuscripts.eventbrite.co.uk/">http://welshmanuscripts.eventbrite.co.uk</a></dt><dt class="sys_events-registrationurl"></dt><dt class="sys_events-registrationurl"></dt><dt class="sys_events-registrationurl"></dt><dt class="sys_events-registrationurl"></dt><dt class="sys_events-registrationurl"></dt></dl>
<p>The manuscript evidence from pre-Edwardian Wales, though ravaged by the effects of Norman and Edwardian conquests of the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, demonstrates that Wales in the central Middle Ages enjoyed complex cultural traditions. The only part of Britain where the tradition of Latin writing can be demonstrated to have survived into the sub-Roman period, Wales was also a point of contact with Ireland and the European continent, a nexus of influences and languages, and a source of texts and scribal expertise exploited in Anglo-Saxon England.</p>
<p>This workshop brings together palaeographers, historians and literary scholars who work on the material remnants of early Latin and vernacular culture in Wales to discuss the problems and opportunities which this material presents.</p>
<p>Speakers will include:</p>
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<li>Julia Crick (King's College London): Welcome and Opening Remarks. </li>
<li>Colleen Curran (King's College London): "The Curious Case of the Caroline in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 153"</li>
<li>Ben Guy (Cambridge): "Institutional Continuity and the Survival of Manuscripts from Early Medieval Wales" </li>
<li>David Dumville (Aberdeen): "Brittonic scripts in the earlier Middle Ages: questions not asked, asked, and inadequately answered"</li>
<li>Helen McKee (RHUL): "The Corpus Martianus Capella"</li>
<li>Paul Russell (Cambridge): "Copying and Modernising the Book of Llandaff"</li>
<li>Myriah Williams (Cambridge): "Abbreviations in the Black Books"</li>
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<p>See here for the <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/centres/clams/Documents/Programme---Manuscript-Symposium.pdf">full programme</a>.</p>
<p>Organised by Julia Crick and Paul Russell.</p>
<p>(Image is a detail from the <a href="https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FF-00004-00042/14">Cambridge Juvencus</a> [CUL, MS Ff.4.42], f. 6r)</p>
<dl class="sys_record-details-control sys_events-details"><dt class="sys_events-registrationurl"></dt></dl>"Codices, Choices, Cameras, and Cataloguing: Digitising Manuscripts", Thursday 11th February 20162016-02-09T01:52:03+00:002016-02-10T01:59:00+00:00Stewart Brookeshttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/codices/<p class="p1"><b>Date: </b><span>Thursday 11th February, 6pm</span></p>
<p class="p3"><b>Sponsor:</b> London Graduate Paleography Group</p>
<p class="p3"><b>Venue:</b> Room S8.08, <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/directions/strand.aspx">Strand Campus</a>, WC2R 2LS[1]</p>
<p class="p3">"Codices, Choices, Cameras, and Cataloguing: Digitising Manuscripts"</p>
<p class="p3">Dr Alison Hudson (Project Curator, <a href="http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2015/11/anglo-saxon-digitisation-project-now-underway.html">Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts</a>, British Library)</p>
<p class="p4"><img height="318" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/News/2016/.thumbnails/sheep.jpg/sheep-500x318.jpg" width="500"/></p>
<p class="p3">(Tollemache Orosius, <a href="http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_47967_f062v">Add MS 47967, f. 62v</a>)</p>
<p class="p3">For details of future papers, visit the <a href="http://londonpaleographygroup.weebly.com/graduate-seminar-series.html">London Graduate Paleography Group</a> website</p>
<p class="p3">[1] To find S8.08, walk past the main reception desk and take the lift up to the seventh floor and then use the stairs to get to the eighth floor.</p>"The Scribes of Exon Domesday Book": Monday 25th January 20162016-01-21T10:41:05+00:002016-02-10T01:53:09+00:00Stewart Brookeshttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/scribes-of-exon/<p><img height="435" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/News/2016/.thumbnails/exon1.jpg/exon1-753x435.jpg" width="753"/></p>
<p><b>Date: Monday 25th January, 5.30pm</b></p>
<p><strong>Sponsor:</strong> London Graduate Paleography Group</p>
<p><strong>Venue:</strong> <a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/download/KBGroundforweb.pdf">Small Committee Room (K0.31)</a>, Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS</p>
<p>"The Scribes of Exon Domesday Book", Dr Fran José Álvarez López (Research Associate on the "<a href="http://www.exondomesday.ac.uk">Conqueror's Commissioner’s Project</a>" based at King's)</p>
<p>For details of future papers, visit the <a href="http://londonpaleographygroup.weebly.com/graduate-seminar-series.html">London Graduate Paleography Group</a> website</p>The Models of Authority team wish you a very HNY!2015-12-31T16:06:38+00:002020-08-20T01:50:35+00:00Stewart Brookeshttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/hny/<p><a href="http://localhost:8080/digipal/page/87/?graph=495&dlg=0"><img alt="h (handwritten in a manuscript)" height="375" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2015/HNY/.thumbnails/hny1.jpg/hny1-279x375.jpg" width="279"/></a><a href="http://localhost:8080/digipal/page/91/?graph=1035&dlg=0"><img alt="a (handwritten in a manuscript)" height="375" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2015/HNY/.thumbnails/hny2a.jpg/hny2a-106x375.jpg" width="106"/></a><a href="http://localhost:8080/digipal/page/79/?graph=763&dlg=0"><img alt="pp (handwritten in a manuscript)" height="375" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2015/HNY/.thumbnails/hny3.jpg/hny3-131x375.jpg" width="131"/></a><a href="http://localhost:8080/digipal/page/86/?graph=1462&dlg=0"><img alt="y (handwritten in a manuscript)" height="375" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2015/HNY/.thumbnails/hny4.jpg/hny4-151x375.jpg" width="151"/></a></p>
<p><a href="http://localhost:8080/digipal/page/105/?graph=686&dlg=0"><img alt="N (handwritten in a manuscript)" height="255" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2015/HNY/.thumbnails/hny5a3.jpg/hny5a3-188x255.jpg" width="188"/></a><a href="http://localhost:8080/digipal/page/79/?graph=906&dlg=0"><img alt="e (handwritten in a manuscript)" height="254" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2015/HNY/.thumbnails/hny6a.jpg/hny6a-113x254.jpg" width="113"/></a><a href="http://localhost:8080/digipal/page/77/?graph=1221&dlg=0"><img alt="w (handwritten in a manuscript)" height="254" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2015/HNY/.thumbnails/hny7a.jpg/hny7a-167x254.jpg" width="167"/></a></p>
<p><a href="http://localhost:8080/digipal/page/98/?graph=375&dlg=0"><img alt="Y (handwritten in a manuscript)" height="298" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2015/HNY/.thumbnails/hny8.jpg/hny8-227x298.jpg" width="227"/></a><a href="http://localhost:8080/digipal/page/79/?graph=759&dlg=0"><img alt="ea (handwritten in a manuscript)" height="298" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2015/HNY/.thumbnails/hny9.jpg/hny9-173x298.jpg" width="173"/></a><a href="http://localhost:8080/digipal/page/99/?graph=1188&dlg=0"><img alt="r (handwritten in a manuscript)" height="298" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2015/HNY/.thumbnails/hny10.jpg/hny10-109x298.jpg" width="109"/></a></p>
<p>2015 was a good year for us, including being able to share our research with the <a href="http://localhost:8080/blog/introduction/">launch of our website</a>, and our popular <a href="http://localhost:8080/blog/category/feature-of-the-month/">Feature of the Month</a> series. But... the excitement doesn't end there. We have a lot planned for 2016, including hundreds of images from a series of repositories and more monthly features. In the meanwhile, you can enjoy our material from the fabulous National Library of Scotland: clicking on any of the graphs above will take you to the NLS charter, showing the graph in context.</p>
<p>Have fun!!</p>