Texts and Contexts: Commentaries in Context
Texts and Contexts is an annual seminar sponsored by the Center and held at the Ohio State University devoted to Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, incunables and early printed texts in Latin and the vernacular languages. The seminar also hosts the Virginia Brown Memorial Lecture, established in memory of the late Virginia Brown, who taught palaeography at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies for over 40 years. This year's seminar focuses on Medieval and Renaissance exegetical traditions and the contexts in which they flourished.
October 11, 2024 - Student-Alumni Council Room, Ohio Union, 1739 N. High Street
Seminar organized by William Little (The Ohio State University)
9:30 am – 10:00 am: Coffee, bagels, pastries, etc.
10:00 am – 10:05 am: Opening remarks by Frank Coulson and William Little (Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, The Ohio State University)
10:05 am – 11:30 am: SESSION I
Moderator: Michael Meckler (Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, The Ohio State University)
Greti Dinkova-Bruun (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto): Peter Riga's Aurora and its Readers
Pablo Piqueras Yagüe (Universidad de Murcia-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): Searching for a Medieval Hispanic Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses
Lisa Ciccone (University of Zurich): Glosses as a Research Tool: the Thesaurus Glossarum et Commentariorum
11:30 am – 12:00 pm: Break
12:00 pm – 1:15 pm: SESSION II
Moderator: Harald Anderson (George Washington University School of Business)
David T. Gura (University of Notre Dame): Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae and Boccaccian Topography in 14th-Century Italy
Robert W. Ulery, Jr. (Emeritus, Wake Forest University) and Patricia J. Osmond (Iowa State University): Sallust in Late Medieval and Early Humanist France
Part I. Introducing and Annotating the Text (Robert W. Ulery, Jr.)
Part II. Translating Text into Image (Patricia J. Osmond)
1:15 pm – 2:30 pm: Lunch
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm: SESSION III
Moderator: Anna A. Grotans (The Ohio State University)
William Little (The Ohio State University): Wrangling in the Muses' Birdcage: Commenting on Juvenal in Rome ca. 1470-1475
Julia Haig Gaisser (Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, Bryn Mawr College): Filippo Beroaldo and Pierio Valeriano: Two Commentators and Their Audiences
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm: Break
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm: Virginia Brown Memorial Lecture
Introduction: Frank T. Coulson (Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies)
Fabio Stok (University of Rome Tor Vergata): Commenting Virgil in the Fifteenth Century
With reception to follow.