Mind the Gaps: Spaces in Manuscripts and Printed Books

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

Re-minding the Gaps in Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales

Presenter 1 Name

Stephen Partridge

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of British Columbia

Paper Title 2

Further Reading: Supplementing England's Past in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Manuscripts

Presenter 2 Name

Neil Weijer

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Paper Title 3

Filling in the Blanks: Matthew Parker's Manipulations and Their Afterlives

Presenter 3 Name

Siân Echard

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of British Columbia

Paper Title 4

Empty Spaces and Filled-In Spaces: Cast-Off Copy in Early Sixteenth-Century English Printing

Presenter 4 Name

Joseph J. Gwara

Presenter 4 Affiliation

United States Naval Academy

Start Date

11-5-2017 10:00 AM

Session Location

Bernhard 210

Description

MSS and printed books often contain blanks, whether for illustrations left unfinished or for missing text or in Sammelbände, for example, to separate volumes. This session considers not only the problems posed by blanks but the many ways in which they are filled in.

Martha W. Driver