Lowe and Beyond: New Directions in Research at the Centenary of The Beneventan Script (1914-2014) II

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Society for Beneventan Studies

Organizer Name

Andrew J. M. Irving

Organizer Affiliation

General Theological Seminary

Presider Name

Roger E. Reynolds

Presider Affiliation

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

Paper Title 1

"Apud nos autem . . .": Local Practices in Later Liturgical Books and Lessons from the Beneventan Zone

Presenter 1 Name

Richard F. Gyug

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Fordham Univ.

Paper Title 2

Probing the Periphery: Chants in Beneventan Fragments from the Cathedral of San Pelino

Presenter 2 Name

Bibiana Gattozzi

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Princeton Univ.

Paper Title 3

Beneventan as "Textual Community": Bruno of Segni, Abbot of Montecassino: A Case Study

Presenter 3 Name

Louis I. Hamilton

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Drew Univ.

Start Date

9-5-2014 3:30 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 observed 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 indispensible 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 not only celebrate the legacy of Lowe’s accomplishment, but point to new directions in research on Beneventan sources.

Andrew J. M. Irving