{"id":206,"date":"2026-04-30T16:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marcoinstitute\/?p=206"},"modified":"2026-04-30T16:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:50:20","slug":"2014-marco-manuscript-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/2014-marco-manuscript-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Marco Manuscript Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

9th Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop
\u201cTextual Communities<\/em>\u201d
January 31-February 1, 2014<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Ninth Marco Manuscript Workshop will be held Friday and Saturday, January 31 \u2013 February 1, 2014, at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville; the workshop is organized by Professor Roy M. Liuzza (English).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The theme of the 2014 workshop is \u201cTextual Communities.\u201d In his 1983 book The Implications of Literacy<\/em>, Brian Stock argued that \u201cwhat was essential to a textual community was not a written version of a text, although that was sometimes present, but an individual, who having mastered it, then utilized it for reforming a group\u2019s thought and action\u200e.\u201d This year\u2019s workshop takes Stock\u2019s influential arguments back to the material evidence: can our knowledge of textual communities help us understand manuscript evidence? What physical signs reveal the presence or activity of communities of readers and interpreters? What traces do these communities leave in the textual and codicological record? How can we read manuscript evidence \u2014 glosses, alterations, translations, compilations, commentaries, libraries, and so on \u2014 for signs of the living communities who made, read, and used these books?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following scholars will present their work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n