WORKSHOP: Books Across Cultures in the Late Medieval Low Countries, The John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, 5 November 2014, at 1.30. Organizer: Professor Adrian Armstrong (French, Queen Mary University of London). Free of charge.
The workshop aims to introduce students to:
* hands-on work with manuscript and early printed books (codicology, material bibliography, transcription, editing), using books from the library holdings;
* the importance of translation and rewriting in literary cultures of the late medieval Low Countries.
It accompanies the library exhibition Communities in Communication: Languages and Cultures in the Low Countries, 1450-1530. The exhibition itself forms part of an ongoing research project supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Transcultural Critical Editing: Vernacular Poetry in the Burgundian Netherlands, 1450-1530.
Please contact Professor Adrian Armstrong for further information.
Deadline to register: 30 September 2014. Places are available on a first-come-first-served basis.