Thirteenth Biennial Early Book Society (EBS) conference
St Andrews University
July 4 to July 7, 2013
The Thirteenth Biennial EBS conference, hosted by Margaret Connolly and Julian Luxford, will be held at St Andrews University from July 4 to July 7, 2013, with an optional trip to Edinburgh collections and other sites of interest in the area scheduled for July 8. Special exhibitions put on for the Early Book Society conference will feature collections at St Andrews and also at the National Library of Scotland which houses the Bohun Psalter, the Murthly Hours, the Auchinleck manuscript and one of two extant illustrated MSS of Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life. The latter exhibition will be organized by Kenneth Dunn, Curator of MSS, at the NLS.
The theme of the conference may be as narrowly or broadly interpreted as necessary; “networks” could allude to an affinity, friendships, communities, secular or religious or both, for example, while “influence” could be orthodox, heretical, royal, individual and so on. “Networks” might allude further to collectors or cataloguers of medieval MSS or of related libraries. Lectures or proposed sessions that consider the transition from script to print, bibliographic issues, or the movement between English and Scottish texts (or vice versa) and audiences are particularly encouraged, though papers on any aspect of the history of manuscripts and printed books from 1350-1550, including the copying and circulation of models and exemplars, style, illustration, and/or the influence of readers and patrons, artists, scribes, printers, are welcome.
The conference is open to all EBS members. Details of how to join can be found on the EBS website: http://www.nyu.edu/
Please indicate in your proposal whether a slide projector, OHP, or computer equipment is needed.
Please send copies of your proposal to both main organizers by the November 15 deadline. These are:
Martha Driver (marthadriver@hotmail.com)
EBS, English Department,
41 Park Row, Rm 1503,
New York, New York 10038-1598, US
or faxed to 212-346-1754 (office)
AND
Margaret Connolly (mc29@st-andrews.ac.uk)
Lauderdale, Cupar Road, Ceres,
Fife, Scotland
KY15 5LP UK.