INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY
College of Liberal Arts
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
The workshop will be hosted by
THE HILL MUSEUM AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY
Saint John's University
Collegeville, MN
The Minnesota Manuscript Research Laboratory is a project developed by the Center for Medieval Studies (CMS) of the Institute for Advanced Study in the College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, in collaboration with the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library at Saint John's University, Collegeville.
The Laboratory's purpose is to make available to interested and qualified graduate and undergraduate students and others who are interested an orientation to the study of medieval manuscripts and their contents.
This one-week workshop will in no sense substitute for a university course in palaeography or codicology. Instead, it will orient students to these disciplines, assist them in evaluating the quality of scholarly arguments pertaining to manuscripts presented in books and journals, and help them decide if they wish to pursue further study of textual disciplines.
Priority will be given to University of Minnesota students. While it has been designed as a non-credit educational opportunity, so that no tuition is charged by the University, students who wish to earn University credit may make arrangements through enrollment in the regular academic year, in consultation with the Director of the Center for Medieval Studies, 136 Nolte Center, (612) 625-3034.
Cost of room for five nights, full board, and educational activities is $500 for full-time University of Minnesota students (graduate or undergraduate), registered for Spring semester, 2006.
Cost for other individuals: $500, plus a $25 fee.
Funds are available to defray fees for University of Minnesota graduate students officially registered for the Medieval Studies minor. Graduate students not registered for the Medieval Studies minor are encouraged to inquire about the availability of funds from their academic departments to allow them to participate.
Phone: (612) 626–0805
Email: cmedst@umn.edu
Applications accepted until all places are filled or until May 19.
The workshop sessions will be held at the Hill Museum and Monastic Library, at Saint John's University and Saint John's Abbey, which are world-renowned for their extensive collection of microfilm and digital images of medieval manuscripts. Their ever-expanding collection contains images of over 90,000 medieval manuscripts. Students will also have access to the Alcuin Library at Saint John's, which contains not only a collection of rare printed books, but also extensive materials on the history of religion, including many books and journals difficult to find elsewhere in the state.
Students will be housed in a dormitory on the Saint John's campus and take meals in the campus refectory. They will also be welcome to attend, as observers or participants, monastic prayer services , which continue a liturgical tradition established early in the Middle Ages. These services are held in Saint John's Abbey Church , designed by the noted architect Marcel Breuer (1902-1981). In the evening, they may enjoy the beautiful grounds, where hiking , swimming and canoeing are available.
The Manuscript Laboratory's program design and teaching materials are largely the collaborative work of the following three Minnesota scholars:
Diane Warne Anderson (Ph.D., Duke University) has taught palaeography and Latin for the University of Minnesota Department of Classics and Near Eastern Studies and for CMS. She has also taught Latin and Greek at Saint John's University and St. Olaf College. She has been employed as a cataloguer of medieval manuscripts at HMML and has published scholarly contributions to manuscript studies.
Susan J. Noakes (Ph.D., Yale University) is Director of the Center for Medieval Studies and Professor of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota. Among her many publications on medieval literature are several which treat centrally the history of manuscripts, early printed books, and reading practices in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance, including Timely Reading: Between Exegesis and Interpretation (Cornell U. Press, 1988)
Theresa M. Vann (Ph.D., Fordham University) is the Joseph S. Micallef Curator of the Malta Study Center at the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library and Adjunct Associate Professor of History at Saint John's University. She has edited several scholarly books, is publishing a translation of The Siege of Rhodes, and has overseen the creation of HMML's on-line manuscript catalogue.
Page updated May 11, 2006
For further information on MMRL contact Dr. Diane Anderson: ander002@umn.edu