Manuscripts and Facsimiles: fidelity or betrayal?
1st, 2nd and 3rd March 2002
Call for Papers
The Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies Programme of the University of Edinburgh in collaboration with Edinburgh University Library will be holding a colloquium on the topic of the history of manuscript reproduction and its impact on reading, scholarship and research. The focus of the colloquium will be the ways in which manuscript material has been reproduced, manually, mechanically and digitally, from the Middle Ages to the present. The three modes of reproduction will provide three thematic sections for the conference. Topics to be addressed will be the concept of the facsimile, copying (both text and illustration), pattern books, print and engraving, photographic reproduction and facsimile, digitisation. The notions of fake and forgery will also be covered.
The colloquium will take place in the Edinburgh University Library Main Building (George Square) and in other venues close by.
The registration fee will be approximately £50 (£30 for postgraduate students). Accommodation will be in hotels in Edinburgh. A full programme including costs of meals etc. will be circulated later in the summer.
Papers will be 30 minutes long within sessions of 45 minutes.
Proposals for papers including a brief synopsis of 400 words maximum should be sent to :
Mr Philip E Bennett,
School of European Languages and Cultures,
The University of Edinburgh,
60 George Square,
Edinburgh EH8 9JU,
Scotland, UK.
phone: +44 (0)131 650 8413/8420
fax: +44 (0)131 651 1482
e-mail:philip.bennett@ed.ac.uk
Offers of papers will be scrutinised by the committee (Mr Philip Bennett, Dr Fran Colman, Mr Richard Ovenden, Mr John Higgitt). It is intended that the colloquium should generate a refereed publication.