Friday 13 September [Venue: Napier Reading Room, Martyrs Kirk, North Street]
14:00 Emily Savage: word of welcome
14:15 Rachel Hart (University of St Andrews Library, Special Collections): “The surviving evidence of medieval collecting, curating and assembling to be found in the Library of the University of St Andrews”
15:00-16:00: Handling session in Special Collections with Rachel Hart
17:15: Keynote lecture: Erik Inglis (Oberlin College) [Venue: School 3 on the Quad]:
“History in the Making: Categories, Techniques and Chronology in Church Collections, c. 800-1300”
18:30: Conference dinner [Venue TBA]
Saturday 14 Sept [Venue for all sessions: Parliament Hall, South Street]
8:30-9: Coffee
9:00-10:45 Morning session 1: Relics and reliquaries – Chair: Kate Rudy
Juliette Calvarin (Harvard University): “Afterlives of Funeral Palls in the Sacristy (St. Thomas’, Prague, c. 1410)”
Ashley West (Temple University): “Heiltumsbücher and Artistic Authority in an Early Visual Archive”
Sarina Kursteiner (Columbia University): “Notarial Acts as Sacred Matter: Bolognese Notaries and their Images in the Archive, 1290-1303”
10:45-11: Coffee and comfort break
11:00-12:45 Morning session 2: Treasuries – Chair: Emily Savage
Elizabeth Mattison (University of Toronto): “Reflecting a Golden Age: The Material Composition of History in the Treasuries of the Late Medieval Maasland”
Marta Simões & Joana Antunes (CEAACP-GEMA, University of Coimbra): “Reading the Space, Listing the Riches: The Old Cathedral of Coimbra and its Medieval Inventories”
Zachary Stewart (Texas A&M University): “The St Peter Mancroft Inventory: Register, Record, Teaching Resource”
12:45- 2:00 Lunch
14:00-15:45: Afternoon session 1: Manuscripts as Archives – Chair: Julian Luxford
Kathleen Wilson Ruffo (Royal Ontario Museum): “Curating Cultural Capital: A little-known Dutch Psalter as Diplomatic Archive”
Shannon Wearing (UCLA): “The ‘Eternal Memory of Great Things’: Illustrated Secular Cartularies of the Twelfth Century,from Bavaria to Barcelona”
Orly Amit (Tel Aviv University): “Appropriating the Archive: Promoting Legitimacy and Shaping Historical Memory through the Library of John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford”
15:45-16:00 Coffee and comfort break
16:00-17:45: Afternoon session 2: Storing the Archive – Chair: Rachel Hart
Diego Belmonte-Fernandez (Universidad de Sevilla): “Collecting, curating and remembering in the Cathedral of Seville: a portable written archive from the fifteenth century”
Rafael Ceballos-Roa & María del Carmen Rodríguez-López (Universidad de León): “The B-side of the parchment: two medieval monastic archives from the kingdom of León”
Amélie Marineau-Pelletier (University of Ottawa and École des hautes études en sciences sociales): “The Locus Credibilis and the Making of Urban Authority: Preserving the Written Word in Metz (14th-15th Centuries)”
Ending around 18:00
Medieval Art Research 