Introduction in the Study of Communication, Literacy and Knowledge and their Exploitation in the Middle Ages
Course unit for Research Master Students, March-June 2018 (Credits: 5 ECTS)
The development of expertise and the exchange of information enabled medieval people to pass on their experience and influence each other’s hearts and minds. A complex social order is virtually unimaginable without the communication-linked phenomenon of ‘literacies’: the abilities to use and understand the various
Premodern Reading Cultures
Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies Seminar 2018
For PhD and ReMa students affiliated to the Netherlands Research School for Medieval Studies (1 ECTS)
Date: 26 March 2018 – 10:30 - 17:00
Location: Auditorium, Museum Catharijne Convent (Lange Nieuwstraat 38, 3512 PH Utrecht)
During this interdisciplinary seminar specialists of Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period
How to make money in the business of books
Masterclass by Prof. Andrew Pettegree (University of Saint-Andrews, Scotland)
Date: Thursday 29 March 2018, 12:00-17:00
Location: University Library Utrecht (Campus Uithof), Special Collections, Bucheliuszaal
Andrew Pettegree is Professor of Modern History University of Saint-Andrews (Scotland). One of the
leading experts on book history in the Early Modern period, the Reformation, and