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Lecture | Analyzing and transmitting medieval manuscripts in the digital age - Professor Bernard Muir, FAHA

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Analyzing and transmitting medieval manuscripts in the digital age Professor Bernard Muir, FAHA In this lecture Professor Muir will demonstrate a variety of challenges encountered when working with documents surviving from the Middle Ages, and the latest developments in the digital presentation such texts with specific reference to his published facsimiles; he will also suggest ways in which our understanding of the nature and function of the book is being transformed by its presentation in digital format. Date: Wednesday 20 November 6.00pm – 7.00pm Venue: Sunderland Lecture Theatre, level 2 (ground floor), Medical Building, corner…

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Symposium | Shedding New Light on Illuminated Manuscripts: Recent Developments in Manuscript Studies by Australian Scholars

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Shedding New Light on Illuminated Manuscripts: Recent Developments in Manuscript Studies by Australian Scholars Members of the ARC Linkage Project: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Australia: researching and relating Australiaʼs manuscript holdings to new technologies and new readers are holding a one-day symposium. This symposium offers the opportunity for the wider community to hear the recent advances in Medieval and Renaissance studies made by Australian scholars. Keynote Addresses by Dr Christopher de Hamel, Corpus Christi College, University Cambridge, and Dr Martin Kauffmann, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford will present new…

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The Art of Praise: Forum and Display on the Medieval Choir Book

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The Art of Praise Forum and Display on the Medieval Choir Book The Advent Festival, in conjunction with the State Library of Victoria and The University of Melbourne, will host a forum and display on the Medieval Choir Book, convened by Margaret Manion.  Margaret Manion has published widely on medieval manuscripts and is preparing a publication on the medieval choir book, entitled The Art of Praise.  Shane Carmody, John Stinson, Elizabeth Melzer and Hugh Hudson will introduce the manuscripts, discussing their provenance, parchments, music and illuminations.  The forum will include a number of live…

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Shane Carmody ‘To be a Pilgrim’ Margaret Manion Lecture 2011

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Pilgrim meets Ararita with grasping arms, Guillaume de Deguileville, The pilgrimage of the lyfe of the manhode and The pilgrimage of the sowle, England, Lincolnshire, c. 1430, State Libfrary of Victoria, RARES folio 79r.

Margaret Manion Lecture 2011 To be a Pilgrim Shane Carmody In this lecture Shane Carmody will explore the provenance and relevance of a medieval manuscript held in the collection of the State Library of Victoria: The pilgrimage of the lyfe of the manhode and The pilgrimage of the sowle. This manuscript dates from 1430 and is an English prose translation of the famous work written by the French Cistercian Guillaume de Deguileville a century earlier. The translation had a major impact on the English imagination through the upheaval of the Reformation and later…

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Lecture - Nigel Morgan ‘Bible stories in a medieval English Psalter: educating Margaret de Lacy, Lady of Meath’

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Professor Nigel Morgan, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Bible stories in a medieval English Psalter: educating Margaret de Lacy, Lady of Meath Nigel Morgan, Honorary Professor at Corpus Christi College Cambridge, is one of the world’s leading historians of medieval art. His lecture focuses on a richly illustrated English Psalter (called today the Munich Golden Psalter) which will be published in facsimile later in 2011. Professor Morgan has written the commentary for this facsimile. He will discuss the educational impact of the Psalter’s illustrations, in the light of its probable owner, Margaret de Lacy, Lady of Meath. Date: 6.00 - 7.00pm, Thursday…

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Art History PhD Scholarship opportunity at The University of Melbourne: ‘Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Australia.’

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Expressions of Interest - PhD Scholarship in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. Deadline 22 February 2010. Expressions of Interest are called for, for a three year full-time Ph.D scholarship at The University of Melbourne in connection with an ARC Linkage Grant administered by the University of Melbourne and to be conducted in partnership with the State Library of Victoria. The grant: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Australia: researching and relating Australia’s manuscript holdings to new technologies and new readers will begin in March, 2010. It involves research on the manuscripts in…

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