LECTIO, KU Leuven Institute for the Study of the Transmission of Texts, Ideas and Images in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, is organizing a Summer School on 4-5 September 2023, in the Abbey of Kortenberg, close to Leuven. This year’s focus is on Multilingualism in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period.
The main ambition is to examine to which extent the practices of, and reflection on, multilingualism can be retraced in manuscripts, printed matter, and visual sources, and how this should be taken into account when analyzing the premodern history of knowledge. This Summer School will also introduce us to approaches of media history and book archaeology which help uncover the ‘multilingual past’ of intellectual history, and examine the complex interplay between orality, text, and the material world in relation to linguistic diversity.
Neo-Latin early career researchers (PhD and postdoc) are also welcome to join this summer school.
Please find the invitation and the preliminary program here: https://ianls.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/LECTIO_Summer-School_2023_callprogram_DEF.pdf.
Deadline for registration is 30 June 2023.