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The Paleography Working Group is sponsored by the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies.

 

The Paleography working group will meet for the Spring 2010 semester in the English Department Lounge, biweekly on Thursdays from 1-2

 

See you there!

 

Past Paleography Working Group Schedules:

Paleography Working Group

Fall 2009

Wednesdays, 12:30-1:30

306 and 330 Wheeler Hall

 

Facilitated by:

Benjamin Saltzman                                    

Pamela Diaz                                                

Katherine Bollinger            

 

Tentative Schedule

 

16 September – Welcome

1.     Overview of paleographical and codicological terms

2.     Discuss plan for the semester

           

23 September – (330 Wheeler) Latin script in antiquity

                                    1. Uncial, Half-Uncial, etc.

                                   

30 September – Early Insular scripts (s. vii-xi !!)

1.     Review of Latin handwriting in Ireland

2.     Review of Anglo-Saxon minuscule

 

7 October – Visigothic (Mozarabic) script and Sinai script to Francia and Italy (s. vii-viii)

1.     Visigothic and Sinai script

2.     Minuscule in Francia and Italy

 

14 October – (330 Wheeler) Beneventan script to Caroline minuscule (s. ix)

 

21 October – Development of handwriting from s. x-xii

 

28 October – Gothic textura - Belgium and France to Germany and England (s. xi-xv)

 

4 November – (330 Wheeler) Gothic cursive and Bastarda (s. xi-xv)

 

11 November – Documentary hands – Italy, Rome, Papal documents

 

18 November – Documentary hands – France and Anglo-Norman

 

25 November – Secretary and Anglicana (s. xiv-xv)

 

2 December – (330 Wheeler) Humanist script – Italy

 

9 December – Catch up, probably with some wine

 

 






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Please register for "Philology," the 8th Annual Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium Graduate Student Conference, to be held at UC Berkeley 24-25 February 2012. Email ASSC2012@gmail.com before 16 February 2012 with your name, affiliation, and the events you plan to attend.

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We look forward to seeing you there!

 
The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium

Eighth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference

"Philology"
University of California, Berkeley
Saturday, 25 February 2012

 

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‘Talis,’ inquiens, ‘mihi uidetur, rex, uita hominum praesens in terris, ad conparationem eius, quod nobis incertum est, temporis, quale cum te residente ad caenam cum ducibus ac ministris tuis tempore brumali, accenso quidem foco in medio, et calido effecto caenaculo, furentibus autem foris per omnia turbinibus hiemalium pluuiarum uel niuium, adueniens unus passeium domum citissime peruolauerit; qui cum per unum ostium ingrediens, mox per aliud exierit. Ipso quidem tempore, quo intus est, hiemis tempestate non tangitur, sed tamen paruissimo spatio serenitatis ad momentum excurso, mox de hieme in hiemem regrediens, tuis oculis elabitur. Ita haec uita hominum ad modicum apparet; quid autem sequatur, quidue praecesserit, prorsus ignoramus. Unde si haec noua doctrina certius aliquid attulit, merito esse sequenda uidetur.’

One of King Edwin's advisers describes a sparrow flying through the hall.

Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, II.13

 

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