{"id":209,"date":"2026-04-30T16:52:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marcoinstitute\/?p=209"},"modified":"2026-04-30T16:52:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:52:03","slug":"2017-marco-manuscript-workshop-envisioning-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/2017-marco-manuscript-workshop-envisioning-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Marco Manuscript Workshop: \u201cEnvisioning Knowledge\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Twelfth Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop will take place Friday and Saturday, February 3-4, 2017, in the Great Room of the International House (1623 Melrose Ave.) at the University of Tennessee \u2013 Knoxville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>With Presentations By:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Matthew Davis<\/strong>&nbsp;(McMaster University):<br>\u201cLydgate Verses in Long Melford\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ilya Dines<\/strong>&nbsp;(Library of Congress):<br>\u201cMedieval Bestiaries of the H Family\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Laine Doggett<\/strong>&nbsp;(St. Mary\u2019s College of Maryland):<br>\u201cBeyond Intertextuality: Changing One\u2019s Story in the Prologue of&nbsp;<em>The&nbsp;Romance of the Pear<\/em>&nbsp;(MS Paris, BNF 2186)\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alistair Maeer<\/strong>&nbsp;(Texas Wesleyan University):<br>\u201cAn Empire\u2019s Worth of Curiosity: Envisioning Edward Barlow\u2019s English Maritime World, 1659-1703\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rachel McNellis<\/strong>&nbsp;(Case Western Reserve):<br>\u201cIdentity Revealed: Cosmological Truths Embedded in the&nbsp;<em>Ars Subtilior&nbsp;<\/em>Picture Pieces\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alexandra Reider<\/strong>&nbsp;(Yale University):<br>\u201cMapping Languages in the Eadwine Psalter\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Katherine Walker<\/strong>&nbsp;(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill):<br>\u201cEarly Modern English Almanacs 1500-1700\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tara Welch<\/strong>&nbsp;(University of Kansas):<br>\u201cValerius Maximus\u2019&nbsp;<em>Facta et Dicta Memorabilia<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2017 Manuscript Workshop, organized by UT professors Maura K. Lafferty (Classics) and Roy M. Liuzza (English), explores the idea of \u201cEnvisioning Knowledge.\u201d Some manuscripts contain sacred texts, brilliantly illuminated; some preserve literary treasures, adorned with elaborately decorated initials. Other manuscripts have a more practical function, from recording transactions of land or service, to collecting medical recipes or geographical lore, to marking days and years, to charting the scope of the earth or the course of the heavens. These manuscripts may have a more utilitarian appearance, but they often supplement their textual content with diagrams and illustrations, charts and maps, tables and lists. Such manuscripts preserve the beginnings of modern science, and they are important to the development of the visual display of information and the transmission of both practical and speculative knowledge. The makers of these books were inventing ways to use the visual space of the page to represent, in one way or another, some truth about the world and their understanding of it. This year\u2019s presentations will focus on these ideas, considering the challenges inherent in\u2013and innovative approaches to\u2013understanding the presentation of knowledge in medieval and early modern texts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The workshop is open at no cost to scholars and students who are interested in sharing a lively weekend of discussion and ideas about manuscript studies. Information on guest parking at UTK is can be found at:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/parking.utk.edu\/permits\/#visitors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/parking.utk.edu\/permits\/#visitors<\/a>. There is a lot of construction taking place on and around campus right now (including near-daily changes in road closures), so you may want to give yourself a little extra time to find your way around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Email&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:marco@utk.edu\">marco@utk.edu<\/a>&nbsp;for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Twelfth Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop will take place Friday and Saturday, February 3-4, 2017, in the Great Room of the International House (1623 Melrose Ave.) at the University of Tennessee \u2013 Knoxville. 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