Lowe and Beyond: New Directions in Research at the Centenary of The Beneventan Script (1914-2014) I
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Society for Beneventan Studies
Organizer Name
Andrew J. M. Irving
Organizer Affiliation
General Theological Seminary
Presider Name
Richard F. Gyug
Presider Affiliation
Fordham Univ.
Paper Title 1
Lowe and Beyond: Beneventan-Script Studies since 1914
Presenter 1 Name
Roger E. Reynolds
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Paper Title 2
Looking Beneath the Asterisk: Variability and Codicological Description of Cassinese Manuscripts
Presenter 2 Name
Andrew J. M. Irving
Paper Title 3
The Logic of Early Medieval Medicine: Texts from Montecassino (MSS 69 and 97)
Presenter 3 Name
Jeffrey Doolittle
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Fordham Univ.
Start Date
9-5-2014 1:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1275
Description
2014 marks the centenary of the publication of E. A. Lowe’s The Beneventan Script (1914). As Virginia Brown wrote in her study of Lowe's work, this seminal treatment of the distinctive script of southern Italy and the Dalmatian coast “quickly became and remains … the classic reference work for the history of Beneventan; it is still the only biography of any medieval script.” It has remained the indispensable handbook not only for palaeographers, but for religious and cultural historians, classicists, medieval Latinists, and historians of Southern Italy, medicine, theology, liturgy, monasticism, and art whose written sources were copied in this distinctive minuscule. The six papers in the two proposed sessions (I & II) not only celebrate the legacy of Lowe’s accomplishment, but point to new directions in research on Beneventan sources.
Andrew J. M. Irving
Lowe and Beyond: New Directions in Research at the Centenary of The Beneventan Script (1914-2014) I
Schneider 1275
2014 marks the centenary of the publication of E. A. Lowe’s The Beneventan Script (1914). As Virginia Brown wrote in her study of Lowe's work, this seminal treatment of the distinctive script of southern Italy and the Dalmatian coast “quickly became and remains … the classic reference work for the history of Beneventan; it is still the only biography of any medieval script.” It has remained the indispensable handbook not only for palaeographers, but for religious and cultural historians, classicists, medieval Latinists, and historians of Southern Italy, medicine, theology, liturgy, monasticism, and art whose written sources were copied in this distinctive minuscule. The six papers in the two proposed sessions (I & II) not only celebrate the legacy of Lowe’s accomplishment, but point to new directions in research on Beneventan sources.
Andrew J. M. Irving