Networks of Books and Readers in the Medieval Mediterranean I: Books

Sponsoring Organization(s)

CU Mediterranean Studies Group

Organizer Name

Núria Silleras-Fernández

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Colorado-Boulder

Presider Name

Núria Silleras-Fernández

Paper Title 1

Illuminating the Scriptorium: A Network of Books from the Monastery of Saint Michael in Medieval Egypt

Presenter 1 Name

Andrea Myers Achi

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univ.

Paper Title 2

Fantasy Kings and Favorite Sons: Arthurian Influence in the Writing of Count Pedro de Barcelós

Presenter 2 Name

Taiko M. Haessler

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Colorado-Boulder

Paper Title 3

Syriac Literary Circle at the Mongol Court (Late Thirteenth Century)

Presenter 3 Name

Anton Pritula

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Hill Museum & Manuscript Library

Start Date

12-5-2017 1:30 PM

Session Location

Bernhard 205

Description

These sessions address the study of networks of books and readers in the Medieval Mediterranean. How did texts and ideas circulate in a Mediterranean context? What types of motifs, topics, and ideas travelled? What books were translated and why? Were there Mediterranean networks of readers who circulated particular texts? These two panels, one focusing on books and the other on readers, seek papers of a comparative, interdisciplinary and/or methodologically innovative nature that focus on how members of various faith and ethnic communities circulated texts and ideas in the broader Mediterranean.

Nuria Silleras-Fernandez