Reconstructing Medieval Libraries

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Early Book Society

Organizer Name

Martha W. Driver

Organizer Affiliation

Pace Univ.

Presider Name

Valerie Schutte

Presider Affiliation

Independent Scholar

Paper Title 1

Reconstructing the Personal Library of the German Franciscan Johannes Sintram, d. 1450

Presenter 1 Name

Kimberly Rivers

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Paper Title 2

"A Chest Full of Frenshe and Englisshe Bokes": A Re-examination of the Libraries of the Woodville Literary Circle

Presenter 2 Name

Dominique Hoche

Presenter 2 Affiliation

West Liberty Univ.

Paper Title 3

The Corpus Catalogorum Belgii

Presenter 3 Name

Benjamin Victor

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. de Montréal

Start Date

13-5-2016 3:30 PM

Session Location

Bernhard 213

Description

"Reconstructing Medieval Libraries" examines what a library meant to medieval readers. Papers in this session consider questions of ownership, provenance, and the ways medieval people thought about their books (or about collecting), and in some cases, trace the survival of medieval books in modern libraries. The libraries of a fifteenth-century German Franciscan, of the Woodville family, and of the dukes of Burgundy will be discussed by speakers on this panel.

Martha W. Driver