Parchment at Harvard, Past and Present: An Introductory Workshop, a hands-on examination of parchment from the Houghton Library, led by Bruce Holsinger (University of Virginia). Co-sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Committee on Medieval Studies. Space in the workshop is limited; to reserve a space, please register... Read more about Houghton Library Parchment Workshop

Bruce Holsinger (University of Virginia), Beasts, Books, Biomes: Parchment and the Meaning of Life. Co-sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Committee on Medieval Studies. Read more about Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture on the Art of the Book

Bettina Wagner (Staatsbibliothek Bamberg), Incunabula from Bavaria at Harvard. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library. Space in the workshops is limited; to register, please click here.... Read more about Houghton-Medieval Studies Workshop in Early Book History

Bettina Wagner (Staatsbibliothek Bamberg), Incunabula from Bavaria at Harvard. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library. Space in the workshops is limited; to register, please click here.... Read more about Houghton-Medieval Studies Workshop in Early Book History

Bettina Wagner (Staatsbibliothek Bamberg), The Nuremberg Humanist Hartmann Schedel and his Books: A Doctor, Chronicler, and Collector at the Transition from Manuscript to Print. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library.

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Christopher Baswell (Barnard College and Columbia University), The Medieval Manuscript in Time. Co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library. Space in this hands-on workshop is limited; please click here to register.

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Christopher Baswell (Barnard College and Columbia University), The Medieval Manuscript in Time. Co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library. Space in this hands-on workshop is limited; please click here to register.

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Christopher Baswell (Barnard College and Columbia University), Arthurian Immobilities: Disabled Kings and Nobles in the Lancelot Prose Cycle. Co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library.

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Looking at 15th-Century Printing Here and Now, but in Terms of There and Then: a hands-on workshop with Eric White, Scheide Librarian and Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at Princeton University. Participants will examine a selection of Harvard’s incunabula, with particular focus on the evidence of original ownership and use, such as inscriptions, hand-decoration, annotations, bindings, and other features, with an eye toward the histories of people who made and used them. Sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Houghton... Read more about Houghton-Medieval Studies Workshop in Early Book History

Looking at 15th-Century Printing Here and Now, but in Terms of There and Then: a hands-on workshop with Eric White, Scheide Librarian and Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at Princeton University. Participants will examine a selection of Harvard’s incunabula, with particular focus on the evidence of original ownership and use, such as inscriptions, hand-decoration, annotations, bindings, and other features, with an eye toward the histories of people who made and used them. Sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Houghton... Read more about Houghton-Medieval Studies Workshop in Early Book History

Eric White (Princeton University), Evidence for the Earliest Export of Printing from Mainz. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library. This lecture is free and open to the public; please register... Read more about Houghton-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History

Sonja Drimmer (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Technologies of Reproduction and Representation. This workshop will focus on medieval manuscripts and early print from northern Europe as technologies of reproduction and representation, considering: representations of history and the Christian religion; representative politics; and modern representations of medieval books themselves through facsimile reproduction. Sponsored... Read more about Houghton-Medieval Studies Workshop in Early Book History

Sonja Drimmer (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Technologies of Reproduction and Representation.  This workshop will focus on medieval manuscripts and early print from northern Europe as technologies of reproduction and representation, considering: representations of history and the Christian religion; representative politics; and modern representations of medieval books themselves through facsimile reproduction.... Read more about Houghton-Medieval Studies Workshop in Early Book History

Sonja Drimmer (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Representative Bodies: Mass Production and the Parliamentary Manuscript in Late Medieval England. Sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library.... Read more about Houghton-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History

Anne D. Hedeman (University of Kansas), Making the Past Present: Illustrations in Early Modern France. Participants will explore how illustrations interacted with their texts in manuscripts and early printed books in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. These new visual cycles reshape established Latin texts, French translations from Latin, and new French texts and create new horizons of expectations for their reception. Space in the workshop is... Read more about Houghton-Medieval Studies Workshop in Early Book History