John Coffin Memorial Palaeography Lecture

18 February 2010, 18:00

Event Type: University Trust Fund Event

Speakers

Dr Teresa Webber (Trinity College, Cambridge), 'Reading in the Refectory: monastic practice in England from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries'.

Description

The readings delivered to monastic communities each day in the refectory, and the books used for this purpose, have received comparatively little detailed attention. This lecture will examine the surviving evidence and explain the principles underlying the selection of texts for the readings. It hopes to bring a new perspective to the history of monastic book production and the formation of book collections in England in the central middle ages.

Dr Teresa Webber, FSA, FRHistS, is a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, and University Senior Lecturer in Palaeography and Codicology in the Faculty of History. She has published "Scribes and Scholars at Salisbury Cathedral c.1075-c.1125" (1992), and co-edited "The Libraries of the Augustinian Canons", Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 6 (British Library/British Academy, 1998) and with Elizabeth Leedham-Green Vol I of the "Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland".

The lecture will be followed by a wine reception. All welcome. If you would like to attend please contact jon.millington@sas.ac.uk | tel. +44 (0)207 664 4859.

Venue : The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)

South Block of Senate House, 1st Floor
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