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Collectors and Collecting:
This lecture series will examine how people of the Middle Ages and Renaissance organized, thought about, and invested meaning in the collections of objects with which they surrounded themselves, and how scholars are interpreting those collections today. Our ten speakers will discuss books, manuscripts, letters, objets d'art, and a host of other items that people have collected through the ages.
Each lecture will begin at 1:30 pm on Friday in Main Library room 122 (except where noted). |
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Conversation with the speaker for both Faculty and Graduate Students will be held immediately afterward in the same room. Refreshments will be provided.
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 October 3, 2003:
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Jeanette Beer (Purdue University)
"Richard de Fournival: Book Collector and Eroticizer of the Bestiary"
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October 17, 2003:
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Richard Emmerson (Medieval Academy of America)
"Collecting the Future: The Last Things in Medieval Illustrated Manuscript Collections"
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November 7, 2003:
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Traianos Gagos (University of Michigan)
"Collecting Documents in the Byzantine Near East"
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Wednesday, December 3, 2003: |
Pamela H. Smith (Pomona College)
"Collecting Nature: Knowledge and Naturalism in the Early Modern Kunsthammer"
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January 16, 2004:
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Sharon Farmer (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"Low Country Ascetics and Oriental Luxury: Jacques de Vitry and the Treasures of Oignies"
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February 27, 2004:
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Jan Ziolkowski (Harvard University)
"Sadly Never After: The Non-Fairy Tale Ending of Uncollected Medieval Folktales"
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March 5, 2004:
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Gabor Klaniczay (Central European University)
"Collecting Proofs on and Objects Related to the Supernatural in Medieval Europe"
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April 16, 2004:
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Brad Sabin Hill (Yivo Institute for Jewish Research)
"The Art of the Hebrew Book"
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April 30, 2004:
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Kathy Eden (Columbia University)
"Renaissance Letter Collections and the Rhetoric of Intimacy"
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May 21, 2004:
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Marjorie Swann (University of Kansas)
"Izaak Walton and the Culture of Collecting"
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For further information please contact the Center by phone, (614) 292-7495, or e-mail, cmrs@osu.edu.
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