Episcopal Things and Ecclesiastical Spaces I: Clerics and Codices: Bishops, Secular Clergy, and Their Books

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages

Organizer Name

Evan A. Gatti

Organizer Affiliation

Elon Univ.

Presider Name

Jennifer M. Feltman

Presider Affiliation

Univ. of Alabama

Paper Title 1

Demand and Supply: Books for Priests in Late Anglo-Saxon England

Presenter 1 Name

Gerald Dyson

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Kentucky Christian Univ.

Paper Title 2

"Tu scribe non subtilia set utilia": Richard fitz Nigel’s Unskilled Pen, the Subtle Arts of John of Salisbury, and the Invention of an Administrative Genre

Presenter 2 Name

Danielle F. Bradley

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Independent Scholar

Paper Title 3

The Cathedral Chapter's Manuscript and Its Marginalia: The Statutes of Saint David's in Wales (Harley 6280)

Presenter 3 Name

William H. Campbell

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Pittsburgh-Greensburg

Start Date

10-5-2019 10:00 AM

Session Location

Bernhard 211

Description

From the labor of book making to the use of books by bishops, priests, and deacons at the altar, to the addenda included in their margins, this session will explore the ways that books both articulate and delimit the work of bishops and the secular clergy. Papers will focus on the varieties of work manifest in ecclesiastical books as well as the networks this work reveals. One of few of the papers to be presented in this session was included in the 2018 Brevia panel, which revealed a significant focus on the types of books used to record and define a bishop’s work. Evan A. Gatti