Extraprofessional Manuscripts: Image and Text in Hybrid Contexts

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Elizabeth Schirmer, Margaret Goehring

Organizer Affiliation

New Mexico State Univ., New Mexico State Univ.

Presider Name

Martha Rust

Presider Affiliation

New York Univ.

Paper Title 1

Visual Voices: The Interplay between Text and Image in MS Tanner 17

Presenter 1 Name

Leanne MacDonald

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Notre Dame

Paper Title 2

Signs of the City in the “Veil Rentier”: Vernacular Culture in a Thirteenth-Century Illuminated Rent-Book

Presenter 2 Name

Margaret Goehring

Paper Title 3

Key Objects and Reformist Sign Theory: Reading the Margins of MS Bodley 978

Presenter 3 Name

Elizabeth Schirmer

Paper Title 4

Virtual Tourism in BL Royal 18.D.ii

Presenter 4 Name

Heather Blatt

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Florida International Univ.

Start Date

10-5-2014 10:00 AM

Session Location

Schneider 1160

Description

Addresses the intersection of professional and non-professional scribal and/or artistic traditions in individual medieval manuscripts ("extraprofessional" or "hybrid" MSS), with special attention to text-image relations.

Elizabeth Schirmer, Margaret Goehring