Script, Culture, and Identity in Southern Italy: (Re-)Defining the Beneventan Zone (A Roundtable)
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Society for Beneventan Studies
Organizer Name
Andrew J. M. Irving
Organizer Affiliation
Rijksuniv. Groningen
Presider Name
Andrew J. M. Irving
Paper Title 1
Discussant
Presenter 1 Name
Francis Newton
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Duke Univ.
Paper Title 2
Discussant
Presenter 2 Name
Luisa Nardini
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Texas-Austin
Paper Title 3
Discussant
Presenter 3 Name
Sarah Davis-Secord
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of New Mexico
Paper Title 4
Discussant
Presenter 4 Name
Charles Hilken
Presenter 4 Affiliation
St. Mary’s College of California
Paper Title 5
Discussant
Presenter 5 Name
Jeffrey Doolittle
Presenter 5 Affiliation
Fordham Univ.
Start Date
10-5-2019 1:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1130
Description
Participants in this interdisciplinary round table are contributors new Brill Companion to the Beneventan Zone, which is currently in preparation.
In the last century, scholarship has on the one hand broadened both E.A. Lowe’s conception of the geographical and the chronological extent of the use of the script in Southern Italy, and along the Dalmatian Coast, and on the other highlighted the use of non-Beneventan scripts within the “Zone”. What awaits integrated study is the culture and history of a region coterminous with the use of a script. What is the relationship between script use and other zones or networks of cultural production, knowledge transmission and exchange, or political and economic power? To what extent is the script a marker of identity? And how do other boundaries (of musical notation, language, artistic and manuscript traditions, religious networks, political or cultural units) coincide with or cross over the boundaries of script use?
The round table provides an opportunity for contributors and the broader scholarly community to identify and discuss these and other questions of central importance to the contemporary study of medieval Southern Italy. Andrew J M Irving
Script, Culture, and Identity in Southern Italy: (Re-)Defining the Beneventan Zone (A Roundtable)
Schneider 1130
Participants in this interdisciplinary round table are contributors new Brill Companion to the Beneventan Zone, which is currently in preparation.
In the last century, scholarship has on the one hand broadened both E.A. Lowe’s conception of the geographical and the chronological extent of the use of the script in Southern Italy, and along the Dalmatian Coast, and on the other highlighted the use of non-Beneventan scripts within the “Zone”. What awaits integrated study is the culture and history of a region coterminous with the use of a script. What is the relationship between script use and other zones or networks of cultural production, knowledge transmission and exchange, or political and economic power? To what extent is the script a marker of identity? And how do other boundaries (of musical notation, language, artistic and manuscript traditions, religious networks, political or cultural units) coincide with or cross over the boundaries of script use?
The round table provides an opportunity for contributors and the broader scholarly community to identify and discuss these and other questions of central importance to the contemporary study of medieval Southern Italy. Andrew J M Irving