Turning Page(s): New Horizons in Book and Library History

This workshop is part of the project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska Curie grant agreement No. 101062473 “FILOL – Finding the Lost Library”.

Programme

09:00

Opening Remarks

Anne Mette Hansen (University of Copenhagen)

09:10

Keynote: Edoardo Barbieri (Università Cattolica di Milano)

Event and communication in the early printing press era: an example from Tuscany

Morning Session 1 – Materiality

09:40

Zanna Van Loon (Museum Plantin-Moretus Antwerp)

Bound to bind: insights into Christophe Plantin’s collaboration with Antwerp bookbinders

 

Ray Schrire (University of Tel Aviv)

Marginalia studies and cognitive history

 

René Hernandez (University of Copenhagen)

Reimagining medieval manuscript miscellanies: challenges and perspectives of the phenomenological approach

11:00

Break

 

Morning Session 2 – New Projects

11:30

Fiammetta Sabba (Università di Bologna)

Italian libraries as centers of scholarly and social mediation in the 18th century through the eyes of foreigners

 

Maria Vittoria Comacchi (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia / Indiana University Bloomington)

Arabic manuscripts and Latin annotations: the materiality of knowledge transfer in early modern Europe

 

Matilde Malaspina (University of Copenhagen)

From BOB to COLIBRI: why do we keep turning the pages of Hernando Colón’s books?

13:00

Lunch break

 

Afternoon Session 1 – Book Collecting and Libraries

14:15

Anders Toftgård (Royal Danish Library)

Reading book auction catalogues over the shoulders of predecessors. An edition of Christian Bruun’s unpublished ‘History of private libraries in Denmark and Norway in the 17th and 18th centuries’

 

Natale Vacalebre (University of Copenhagen)

The smallest treasure: early modern popular books and the rare book market

 

Stefano Cassini (Università Cattolica di Milano)

Aldus Manutius and the making of the Wittenberg University Library

15:30

 Break

Afternoon Session 2 – Women in Book History

15:45

Marina Garone & Elizabeth Treviño (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico - UNAM)

Women and Book studies: new horizons for bibliographical research

 

Federica Coluzzi (University of Warwick)

From dark stacks to bright screens: the digital Renaissance of 19th century –Italian women's Books

16:45

Closing Remarks

 

Registration

The conference is in person and online. Attendance is free.

For registration and info please email Natale Vacalebre.