# Houghton-Medieval Studies Lectures and Workshops in Early Book History ## expand\_more 2025-2026 (Spring): Yossi Chajes (University of Haifa), *Philosophy, Pedagogy, Prophecy, and the Enigmatic Origins of Ilanot* (lecture); *Reading the Tree: A Hands-On Workshop in Ilanot Manuscripts* (workshops). 2025-2026 (Fall): Denva Gallant (Rice University), *Considering Withdrawal in Images of the* Vitae patrum *(Lives of the Desert Fathers)* (lecture); *Books for the Soul: Personal Devotion in the Middle Ages* (workshops). 2024-2025 (Spring): William P. Stoneman (Houghton Library *emeritus*), *‘For Purposes of Investigation or Instruction’: The History of Collecting Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at Harvard* (lecture); *An Introduction to Provenance Research on Early Manuscripts and Books* (workshops). 2024-2025 (Fall): Niels Gaul (University of Edinburgh), *Codex and Character: Byzantine Authors in/and Their Books* (lecture); *Harvard's Early Greek Manuscripts in Time and Context* (workshops). 2023-2024 (Spring): Bettina Wagner (Staatsbibliothek Bamberg), *The Nuremberg Humanist Hartmann Schedel and his Books: A Doctor, Chronicler, and Collector at the Transition from Manuscript to Print* (lecture); *Incunabula from Bavaria at Harvard* (workshops). 2023-2024 (Fall): Christopher Baswell (Barnard College), *Arthurian Immobilities: Disabled Kings and Nobles in the Lancelot Prose Cycle* (lecture); *The Medieval Manuscript in Time* (workshops). 2022-2023 (Spring): Eric White (Princeton University), *Evidence for the Earliest Export of Printing from Mainz* (lecture); *Looking at Fifteenth-Century Printing Here and Now, But in Terms of There and Then* (workshops). 2022-2023 (Fall): Sonja Drimmer (University of Massachusetts Amherst), *Representative Bodies: Mass Production and the Parliamentary Manuscript in Late Medieval England* (lecture); *Technologies of Reproduction and Representation* (workshops). 2021-2022 (Spring): Anne D Hedeman (University of Kansas), *Power and Authority in Visual Paratext* (lecture); *Making the Past Present: Illustrations in Early Modern France* (workshops). 2018-2019 (Spring): Simon Rettig (National Museum of Asian Art), *Praying for the Ottoman Sultan: A New Look at Manuscripts of Selected Surahs after 1500* (lecture); *An Introduction to Codicology and the Arts of the Book of the Islamic World* (workshops). 2018-2019 (Fall): Sylvia Huot (Pembroke College, Cambridge University), *Nuanced Readings: Iconographic Shifts in Manuscripts of Christine de Pizan's* *"Epistre Othea"* (lecture); *The* Roman de la Rose*: From Medieval Manuscripts to Modern Editions* (workshops). 2017-2018 (Spring): Peter Kidd (independent researcher), *Greater than the Sum of Their Parts: Incomplete Medieval Manuscripts in Boston and Elsewhere* (lecture); *Researching the Provenance of Early Manuscripts and Books: A Practical Introduction* (workshops). 2016-2017 (Spring): Julian Weiss (King's College London), *In the Tracks of Josephus: Reading Jewish History and Belief in the Early Modern Hispanic and Lusophone Worlds, 1492-1687* (lecture); *Creating Vernacular 'Literature' in Renaissance Spain and Portugal* (workshops). 2015-2016 (Fall): William Caferro (Vanderbilt University), *The HBS Medici Collection: Florence and International Trade, 1400-1600* (lecture)*; The HBS Medici Collection: Reading Account Books as Texts and Historical Sources* (workshop); *The HBS Medici Collection: Florentine Business and Accounting Practices* (workshop)*.* Co-sponsored by the Baker Business Library and the Department of History. 2014-2015 (Spring): Monica Green (Arizona State University), *Reconstructing Medieval Medical Libraries: Between the Codex and the Computer* (lecture and workshop). Co-sponsored by the Francis Countway Medical Library. 2014-2015 (Fall): Peter Rückert (Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart), *Paper History and Watermarks Research: New Perceptions in Digital Dimensions* (lecture); *Material Aspects of Medieval German Manuscripts and Incunabula for Description and Dating* (workshop). 2013-2014 (Spring): Anthony Grafton (Princeton University), *Renaissance Humanists and the Study of Manuscripts* (lecture); *Life in the Margins: Practices of Learned Annotation in Early Modern Europe* (workshop). 2013-2014 (Fall): Cristina Dondi (Consortium of European Research Libraries), *Thinking Again about the First Printing Revolution with Both Eyes on the Books: Venetian Evidence for Prices, Trade, and Use* (lecture and workshop). 2012-2013 (Spring): Nicholas Pickwoad (University of the Arts, London), *Unfinished Business: Incomplete Bindings Made for the Booktrade from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century* (lecture and workshop). 2012-2013 (Fall): George Ferzoco and Carolyn Muessig (University of Bristol), *Medieval Sermons and Preaching in the Manuscripts of Houghton Library* (workshop). 2011-2012 (Spring): Paul Needham (Princeton University), *The Gutenberg Bible from Past to Present* (lecture); *The Many Layers of the Fifteenth-Century Printed Book* (workshop). 2011-2012 (Fall): Kenneth Pennington (Catholic University of America), *Reading the* Ius Commune*: The Secrets of Roman and Canon Law Manuscripts* (lecture and workshop). Co-sponsored by the Harvard Law Library. 2010-2011 (Spring): Roger Wieck (Pierpont Morgan Library), *The Sacred Bleeding Host of Dijon* (lecture); *The Book of Hours* (workshop). 2010-2011 (Fall): Julia Boffey (Queen Mary University of London), *Defining the Urban Reader: Books and Reading Practices in London in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries* (lecture); *Middle English Books in the Houghton Library* (workshop). 2009-2010: Brigitte Bedos-Rezak (New York University)*, Corporeal Boundaries in Medieval Texts: The Charter Evidence* (lecture); *From Archive to Collection: Medieval Charters and the Contingency of Interpretation* (workshop). 2008-2009: Richard Rouse† and Mary Rouse (UCLA), *A Princely Gift: The French Translation of Vegetius, 1284-1300* (lecture); *Florilegia and Glosses: Books for Reference Rather than Reading* (workshop). 2007-2008: Falk Eisermann (Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, Berlin Staatsbibliothek)*, Secrets of Success: Printers and their Patrons in Fifteenth-Century Leipzig* (lecture and workshop). 2006-2007: Nigel Palmer† (St. Edmund Hall, Oxford)*, Blockbooks and Their Place in the Transition from Manuscript to Print in the Fifteenth Century* (lecture and workshop). 2005-2006: Felix Heinzer (University of Freiburg), *Hildegard of Bingen and Elisabeth of Schonau: Visionary Attitude and Monastic Culture in Twelfth-Century Germany* (lecture); *Liturgical Manuscripts in Houghton Library* (workshop).