MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
at the THE HILL MUSEUM AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY
Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota
Beginning Sunday evening, May 31
and ending on Friday, June 5, 2009,
the Laboratory will hold its 5th annual workshop:
a practical, hands-on introduction to the study of manuscripts
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, but all are welcome. 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, 302 Nolte Center, (612) 626-0805.
$700.00 includes workshop fee, air-conditioned housing for five nights and all meals (three a day) and refreshments during breaks.
$500.00 includes workshop fee, and all meals (three a day) and breaks.
$500.00 includes workshop fee, air-conditioned housing for five nights.
$350.00 includes workshop fee only
Funds are available to defray costs for University of Minnesota graduate students officially registered for the Medieval Studies minor. Other students are encouraged to inquire about the availability of funds from their academic departments.
Phone: (612) 626–0805
Email: cmedst@umn.edu
Applications accepted until May 15.
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 supporting the study of manuscripts and also 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 Minnesota Manuscript Research Laboratory is a project developed by the Center for Medieval Studies (CMS) 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.
The Manuscript Laboratory's program design and teaching materials are largely the collaborative work of the following 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.
Theresa M. Vann (Ph.D., Fordham University) is the Joseph S. Micallef Curator of the Malta Study Center at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library at Saint John's University. She is publishing a translation of The Siege of Rhodes and has overseen the creation of HMML's on-line manuscript catalogue.
Susan J. Noakes (Ph.D., Yale University), Professor of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota, and former Director of the Center for Medieval Studies. 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)
Matthew Z. Heintzelman (Ph.D., University of Chicago; MLIS, University of Iowa) is Curator for the Austria/Germany/Switzerland Study Center and for Rare Book collections at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library at Saint John's University. He has studied late medieval Christian-Jewish discourse in German religious drama and the history of early printing. He recently completed the online cataloging of the rare printed book collections at Saint John's University.
Ruth Mazo Karras (PhD, Yale University) is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Minnesota. In the course of the research for her four books she has done archival research in Sweden, England, Germany, and France, mainly in ecclesiastical and secular court records but also in sermon literature and theological quodlibets.
Page updated October 16, 2008
For further information on MMRL contact Dr. Diane Anderson: ander002@umn.edu