Early Modern Studies in Scotland Seminar

The Hand in the Text: Renaissance Acts of Writing and Printerventions

A one-day symposium exploring the agency of the hand in textual transmission

Hosted by Centre for Early Modern Studies, Aberdeen

Saturday 25^th May 2013

at

Sir Duncan Rice Library

12.30-1: Tea, Coffee & Welcome
1 – 2.45: Scribes and Scripts
Sebastiaan Verweij (Oxford), In Praise of Scottish Scribes
Steve W. May (Emory/Sheffield), Matching Hands in English Renaissance Manuscripts: A Case Study
Jonathan Gibson (Open University), Varieties of Italic
2.45-3.15: Tea and Coffee
3.15 – 4.30: Re-descriptions: the hand in the printed text.
Katherine Acheson (Waterloo), Writing in Bibles: The Example of Folger 2190 (1603)
Fred Schurink (Northumbria), Re-Reading Tudor Translation from the Margin: Gabriel Harvey’s Annotations to Richard Morison’s Stratagems (1539)

For further information please contact the organiser Andrew Gordon: a.gordon@abdn.ac.uk