Manuscript and Printed Books Colloquium
University of Wales, Bangor
24 March 2007
9:30 Registration and coffee/tea
10:00-12:30
Prof. Julia Boffey, School of English and Drama, QMUL:
‘Scribes and dream visions: the endings of The Temple of Glass and The Kingis Quair’
Dr Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan (Honorary Research Fellow, School of Welsh, Cardiff University, formerly Head of Manuscripts and Images, National Library of Wales)
‘Reading words and reading visual images’
Dr Nia Powell, School of History and Welsh History, University of Wales, Bangor:
‘Has the digital revolution revolutionised research?’
12:30-1:15 lunch
1:15-3:00
Dr Orietta da Rold, School of English, Leicester:
'"pergamena ... expongiavit et exquadravit et lineavit seu regulavit": making books in 12th century England'
Dr Sarah Peverley, School of English, Liverpool:
‘Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't': Editing the Manuscripts of Hardyng’s Chronicle’
3:00-3:30 coffee
3:30-4:15 Roberta Magnani, PhD student, Cardiff:
‘Petrarke, Ariosto and Gaufredus Chaucer: how Thynne and Speght translated Chaucer into a classical author’
4:15-5:00 Round Table on problems and developments in manuscript studies