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13th Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop: \u201cTransmission\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

February 2-3, 2018<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The thirteenth annual Marco Manuscript Workshop will take place Friday and Saturday, February 2-3, 2018, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The workshop is organized by Professors Maura K. Lafferty (Classics) and Roy M. Liuzza (English), and is hosted by the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s workshop explores the idea of \u201cTransmission.\u201d Few texts are preserved in their author\u2019s own hand; most surviving manuscripts are copies of copies, each hand-made, and each differing to a greater or lesser degree, by design or accident, from the copy before it. The more successful or important or popular a work, the more copies were produced, and the more difference and variation exists among the surviving copies; but even a work that survives in only one copy may represent the end of a series, potentially a long one, of moments of textual reproduction. Texts may travel in groups or be tucked into solitary margins; they may gather in closely-knit families or diverge in significant and sometimes strange ways. Whatever hidden chances may have led to their survival, every manuscript has a story to tell about its origins, its readers, and its place as a link in the chain of transmission. How do we reconstruct these stories? Do the traditional tools of textual criticism reflect the reality of textual transmissions? What can a text tell us about its own history?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As in previous years, the workshop is intended to be more like a class than a conference; participants are encouraged to share new discoveries and unfinished work, to discuss both their successes and frustrations, to offer both practical advice and theoretical insights, and to work together towards developing better professional skills for textual and codicological work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The workshop is open at no cost to anyone interested in sharing a lively weekend of discussion and ideas about manuscript studies. Please contact Roy Liuzza<\/a> or the Marco Institute<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Program<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sessions will be held in the Great Room of the UT International House<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, February 2<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Time<\/th>Event<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
8:30 am<\/strong><\/td>Registration<\/td><\/tr>
9:00<\/strong><\/td>Opening remarks & welcome by Marco Riggsby Director Jay Rubenstein<\/td><\/tr>
9:15<\/strong><\/td>Julia Marvin<\/strong> (University of Notre Dame) \u2013 \u201cWhen History Begins Twice: Apparatus and the Generation of Meaning in the Brut<\/em> Historiographic Tradition\u201d<\/td><\/tr>
10:30<\/strong><\/td>Coffee break<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
10:45<\/strong><\/td>Kathryn A. Lowe <\/strong>(University of Glasgow) \u2013 \u201cTextual Transmission and the Development of the Documentary Archive\u201d<\/td><\/tr>
12:00<\/strong><\/td>Poster presentations <\/strong>by UTK graduate students<\/td><\/tr>
12:30 pm<\/strong><\/td>Lunch \u2013 Black Cultural Center, room 102\/103\/104<\/td><\/tr>
2:00<\/strong><\/td>Leslie Lockett<\/strong> (The Ohio State University) \u2013 \u201cThe Transmission, Study, and Translation of Augustine\u2019s Soliloquia<\/em> in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries\u201d<\/td><\/tr>
3:15<\/strong><\/td>Coffee break<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
3:30<\/strong><\/td>Martin Foys<\/strong> (University of Wisconsin, Madison) \u2013 \u201cThe Translation and Transformation of Carolingian Texts in Anglo-Saxon England: CCCC 44 and Cotton Vespasian D.xv\u201d<\/td><\/tr>
6:00<\/strong><\/td>Reception (cash bar) \u2013 Copper Cellar Restaurant, 1807 Cumberland Ave. (space limited \u2013 rsvp to marco@utk.edu<\/a>)<\/td><\/tr>
7:00<\/strong><\/td>Dinner \u2013 Copper Cellar Restaurant (space limited \u2013 rsvp to marco@utk.edu<\/a>)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, February 3<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Time<\/th>Event<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
9:30 am<\/strong><\/td>Sarah Sprouse<\/strong> (Texas Tech University) \u2013 \u201cFantasies of Wales: Some Paleographic Evidence for the Mediating Role of Gerald of Wales\u201d<\/td><\/tr>
10:45<\/strong><\/td>Coffee break<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
11:00<\/strong><\/td>Andrew Dunning<\/strong> (University of Toronto) \u2013 \u201cWhen is an author a manuscript\u2019s corrector?\u201d<\/td><\/tr>
12:30 pm<\/strong><\/td>Lunch \u2013 International House Community Room<\/td><\/tr>
2:00<\/strong><\/td>Scott Bruce<\/strong> (University of Colorado, Boulder) \u2013 \u201cThe Lost Patriarchs Project: Recovering the Greek Fathers in the Medieval Latin Tradition\u201d<\/td><\/tr>
3:15<\/strong><\/td>Coffee break<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
3:30<\/strong><\/td>Patrick Naeve<\/strong> (Cornell University) \u2013 \u201cGeography and Genealogy in an Arabic Glossed Manuscript of Isidore\u2019s Etymologiae<\/em>\u201d<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>(dinner open<\/em>)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Manuscript Workshop is co-sponsored by the Marco Institute, the Department of English, and the Office of Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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