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

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

Reading Petrarch's Triumphs across the Medieval Mediterranean

Presenter 1 Name

Leonardo Francalanci

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Notre Dame

Paper Title 2

Corbaccio's Ambiguity and Parody in Bernat Metge's Lo somni

Presenter 2 Name

Pau Cañigueral Batllosera

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst

Paper Title 3

Reading, Copying, and Translating the Hebrew Sefer Josippon in Renaissance Italy

Presenter 3 Name

Nadia Zeldes

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev

Start Date

12-5-2017 3:30 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