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Colloque – The Medieval Book Through the Lens of the Librarian 7th European Congress of Medieval Studies 06-09 September 2023 University of Basel Switzerland Programme   The 7th European Congress of Medieval Studies of the Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales (FIDEM) will be organized by the Department of Arts, Media, and Philosophy of the University of Basel, Switzerland. Subject : A book is first of all a book, with a physical appearance, a title, and a content. The content is perhaps the part that most of all determines the book’s impact. But also the title and the physical appearance have their share, and perhaps also other aspects, such as the reputation of the author, the period in which the book was written, and the reception it received. The impact of these latter aspects is more difficult to trace, but they may produce a recognized quality, an aura that materializes itself when books come together in a physical or imaginary room, when they have to co...

International Workshop Gargnano sul Garda (University of Milan),  10-12 October 2022 This workshop continues the project inaugurated in 2017 in Lisbon, aiming at fostering and promoting the exchange of ideas on how to edit late Antique and early Medieval texts (mostly Latin texts, but without excluding possible extensions to the Greek field). Young scholars in particular will be encouraged to present case-studies and share the editorial problems and methodological challenges that they had to face in order to fulfil their research or critical editions, in dialogue with more experienced scholars. As in the previous workshop, the centre of interest will be troublesome issues, such as, for example: - ‘open’ or ‘fluid’ texts - Latin texts translated from another language, like Greek, or bilingual texts - texts with variants by the author or in multiple recensions - texts with linguistic instability - texts transmitted by a huge number of manuscripts - collections of extracts - texts wit...

Coloquio Internacional El comercio de librería en América Latina: inicios, expansiones, conexiones (siglos XVIII-XX) Instituto Caro y Cuervo, Bogotá, Colombia 21-23 de abril 2021 Convocatoria Dentro de la reciente historiografía dedicada al libro y la cultura impresa en América Latina, los libreros y las librerías aparecen como protagonistas de segundo orden. Si bien su importancia como intermediarios de la cultura y lugares del saber no es negada en ningún caso, el estudio sistemático de sus experiencias, características y orientaciones ha ocupado un lugar menor dentro de la investigación especializada, un hecho que ha derivado en su poco relevamiento dentro de aquellas pesquisas que atienden, de forma más general, la vida política y sociocultural de las ciudades latinoamericanas. Excusada en muchos casos por la ausencia de fuentes de primera mano, la desatención dada a las librerías no sólo limita nuestra comprensión del lugar del libro y la lectura en la vida cotidiana, sino que ...