Conference
Scribes and Inky Fingerprints: Collaborative and Mediated Authorship in Early Modern English Manuscripts
- Keynote speaker: Prof. Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford)
- Date
- Wednesday 7 May 2025 - Friday 9 May 2025
- Address
- Scheltema Leiden
Marktsteeg 1
2312 CS Leiden
This three-day international conference hosted at Leiden University by the ERC Consolidator-funded FEATHERS project aims to bring together researchers working on early modern scribal culture and manuscript production. With a particular focus on three distinct genres of the secular manuscript industry – literary texts, letters and legal records – the conference seeks to explore the agency and influence of scribes, scribblers, secretaries, scriveners, and other manuscript users in order to shed light on their role in the production of early modern manuscripts.
FEATHERS warmly invites proposals for 20-minute papers, to be delivered in English, on topics related to early modern English manuscript production. The project is also open to other formats such as (but not limited to) roundtable discussions, complete panel proposals, and interpretive dance extravaganzas.
Proposal deadline: 20 December 2024