Ilse A B De Vos
Byzantinist, textual scholar but mainly manuscript lover.
Address: Ghent University
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Department of Linguistics / Department of Literary Studies
Blandijnberg 2
9000 Gent
Belgium
Address: Ghent University
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Department of Linguistics / Department of Literary Studies
Blandijnberg 2
9000 Gent
Belgium
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We are thrilled to announce our upcoming DBBE conference ‘Growing Corpora. Byzantine Book Epigrams and Online Text Collections’, which will take place on 24-25 June 2020 in Ghent!
A new version of our database was launched last June. Exactly one year later, we are organising a two-day conference. Together with anyone interested, we want to celebrate and reflect on what we have achieved so far and look ahead at what is - hopefully! - yet to come.
In our demo sessions you can present your project and discuss your experiences in growing your online corpus (10-15 minutes). In our thematic sessions you can present your research on Byzantine book epigrams (20 minutes).
📄Abstracts should be sent to dbbe@ugent.be by November 15, 2019.
🌐 For any further information, please visit the conference website (https://www.dbbe2020.ugent.be).
(1) Honorary section for Prof. Francis J. Thomson on the occasion of his 80th birthday, containing his academic bibliography and his "Checklist of Slavonic translations".
(2) Proceedings of the ATTEMT Workshop held at King’s College London, 19-20 December 2013 (org. Ilse De Vos, Olga Grinchenko & Lara Sels)
(3) Proceedings of the ATTEST Workshop held at the University of Regensburg, 11-12 December 2015 (org. Jürgen Fuchsbauer, Lara Sels & Vittorio Tomelleri)
Byzantine manuscripts of all periods and kinds regularly contained colophons, scribal prayers, dedicatory pieces, and other “paratexts” in verse. These small (or sometimes long) poems give us a unique insight into the interests, ideologies and emotions of scribe, patron, and/or reader. They are testimonies to a long and often eventful history of reading and interpretation in Byzantine culture, and at the same time, they are fascinating (but sometimes overlooked) works of poetic art.
The DBBE has greatly improved access to this corpus. Nevertheless, book epigrams continue to elicit many questions, from palaeography to art history, from metrics to the history of text transmission. In this series of lectures, we invite scholars to share their perspectives on this multifaceted genre.
In Spring 2021, we will kick off Speaking From the Margins with a series of six online lectures. The lectures will take place at 4pm (Central European Time) and will be accessible to everyone via Zoom. For more information please contact dbbe@ugent.be or visit https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/pages/outreach#lectures.