Manuscript and Print: Exploring Early Modern Trade, Networks and Culture

Conference schedule

9.30am to 11am - Panel 1: Revolutionary Values and the Practicalities of Print

• Michelle Michel – ‘Book Pirates: Villains or Victims?’
• Julia Smith – ‘The “Frankenbible” of Glasgow: Book Traders and the Creation of Composite Printed Books in the Sixteenth Century
• Charlotte White – ‘Anatomy of a Masterpiece: Morality and Metaphors of Creation in the Printing Process of Anatomical Manuscripts’

11am to 11.15 am: Break

11.15am to 12.45 pm - Panel 2: Navigating News in Turbulent Times: Manuscript, Print, and Public Perception

• Jack Crosswaite – ‘Print and Popularity: Sir Roger L’Estrange and the Paradox of the Public Sphere’
• Nicola Clarke – ‘Accuracy in Manuscript and Print News during the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis: How did both producers and consumers assess and value it?’
• Jessica Reid – ‘”We dar not tell truth as thou didst”: Thomas St Serfe’s manuscript newsletters and the problem of print news in Restoration Scotland

12.45 pm to 1.45 pm: Lunch

1.45 pm to 3.15 pm - Panel 3: Print Trade and Consumption: Exploring Networks and Market Dynamics in Early Modern England and Europe

• Ittay Mallah – ‘Market of the Mind: Book Consumption in 16^th-Century Antwerp, Seen from the Account Book’
• Joe Saunders – ‘English Print Trade Networks c.1600-50’
• Elena Gatti – ‘Pronosticationes ad annum, a crossroads between print and manuscript, popular culture, public sphere and propaganda’

3.15pm to 3.30pm: Break

3.30pm to 4.30pm - Panel 4: Literacy Reception and Manuscript Traditions in Early Modern England

• Yao Chen – ‘Death and Earthly Love: Petrarch’s Triumphus Mortis in Early Modern England’
• Rosamund Paice – ‘Trading in Reputation: Sir Thomas Fairfax’s Bequest to the Bodleian… and Family’

4.30pm to 5.30pm: Keynote Lecture

• Dr Hannah Jeans - ‘Gender, Manuscript and Print in seventeenth-century reading habits’

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