Stories about Books: Evidence and the Making of Narrative

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Early Book Society

Organizer Name

Martha W. Driver

Organizer Affiliation

Pace Univ.

Presider Name

Roberta L. Krueger

Presider Affiliation

Hamilton College

Paper Title 1

Stolen Books in the Early Middle Ages

Presenter 1 Name

Gerald Dyson

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of York

Paper Title 2

Telling Tales about the Tales: Hengwrt and Corpus 198

Presenter 2 Name

Stephen B. Partridge

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of British Columbia

Paper Title 3

Narratives of Intention: The Meanings of Sanctuarium (Milan, ca. 1477)

Presenter 3 Name

Alison Frazier

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Texas-Austin

Paper Title 4

What's a Text Like You Doing in a Place Like This? A Closer Look at Some Composite Manuscripts of the Middle English Prose Brut

Presenter 4 Name

Neil Weijer

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Start Date

15-5-2015 3:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1265

Description

Stories about Books looks at the way in which evidence about MSS and early printed books is interpreted, sometimes to different ends. Papers consider the ways in which stories are mangled, truncated, or elaborated in transmission, or the ways in which narratives are developed with either direct or tangential reference to the original source materials.

Martha W. Driver