Wilhelm Levison Network
The 2009-10 events of the Levison exchange build on a session held in the John Rylands Library in April 2008, when colleagues and post-graduates from the partner institutions were invited to examine and discuss a group of early medieval manuscripts held in the collections. The depth and richness of the discussions during this hands-on session gave rise to the idea of staging a more sustained master-class/workshop. During 2009-10, further hands-on sessions with selected codices and papyri from the collections will be interspersed with papers of two types: a) on individual manuscripts (in many cases from the Rylands collections) and/or b) on key issues related to the book as a material object and carrier of cultural traditions, a question central to Levison's own work. In the April 2008 session, we found that the opportunity to explore fundamental questions with the manuscripts in light of contributions from different scholarly traditions was equally inspiring for students and for more experienced scholars, and we hope to develop further an approach in which discussion of technical issues and conceptual approaches can complement each other.
Events for 2009-10:
Colloquium 17-19 December 2009
Christianity and the Book from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
A research colloquium to be held December 17-19, 2009; John Rylands Library, Deansgate
Public Lecture 17 December 2009
A public lecture by Conrad Leyser of the University of Oxford
(Old Reading Room, Rylands Library, Deansgate, 6-7 p.m., Thursday 17 December)
- Public Lecture and Master Class, 26-27 March 2010
A public lecture by Kim Haynes-Eitzen of Cornell University