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The Lost Books of Medieval England: James Clark (University of Exeter, UK)

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Program in Medieval Studies
Location
Lucy Ellis Lounge -- 1080 Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building
Date
Mar 11, 2025   5:00 pm  
Contact
Carol Symes
E-Mail
symes@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Campus Humanities Calendar

It has been estimated that, for every manuscript now surviving from medieval England, another twenty were lost. Given what we have learned recently about medieval book production, the scale of the loss may be nearly twice that: the conventional understanding has been based on an unrepresentative minority of volumes saved by accident or an individual’s design. How might that view change if, instead, we looked to the lost?

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