CONGRESS CANCELED Archaizing Form: Rolls and Beyond
Description
It is often suggested that the manuscript roll carries connotations of tradition, antiquity, and solemnity, explaining its use in liturgical and ceremonial settings. However, the horizontal orientation of the ancient scroll is strikingly different from the vertical orientation of most medieval rolls. What, then, is the relationship between the medieval roll form and antiquity? How did medieval scribes and readers construct and respond to past book-making traditions? How did artists, illuminators and writers imagine and reimagine the roll when depicting ancient writing materials? Thinking beyond the roll, how and when did scribes disguise or emphasize later additions to earlier manuscripts?
This panel invites papers that explore and interrogate the connections between the material form of a text and the idea of antiquity, particularly in relation to rolls and other non-codex forms, such as wax-tablets or papyrus bulls. Mireille Pardon
CONGRESS CANCELED Archaizing Form: Rolls and Beyond
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It is often suggested that the manuscript roll carries connotations of tradition, antiquity, and solemnity, explaining its use in liturgical and ceremonial settings. However, the horizontal orientation of the ancient scroll is strikingly different from the vertical orientation of most medieval rolls. What, then, is the relationship between the medieval roll form and antiquity? How did medieval scribes and readers construct and respond to past book-making traditions? How did artists, illuminators and writers imagine and reimagine the roll when depicting ancient writing materials? Thinking beyond the roll, how and when did scribes disguise or emphasize later additions to earlier manuscripts?
This panel invites papers that explore and interrogate the connections between the material form of a text and the idea of antiquity, particularly in relation to rolls and other non-codex forms, such as wax-tablets or papyrus bulls. Mireille Pardon