Books of Knowledge and Their Reception: Circulation of Widespread Texts in Late Medieval Europe

0501668 - FLÚ 2019 RIV eng U - Conference, Workshop Arrangement
Cermanová, Pavlína - Žůrek, Václav
Books of Knowledge and Their Reception: Circulation of Widespread Texts in Late Medieval Europe.
[Prague, 18.10.2018-20.10.2018, (K-WRD 23/11)]
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) StrategieAV21/14
Program: StrategieAV
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : Manuscript culture * transmission of texts * books of knowledge * transmission of knowledge
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

The conference aimed to rethink the history of late medieval literacy. In the scope of the interest were primarily the texts which can be labelled as knowledge compendia, i. e. assembling knowledge of the world in the form of historical, philosophical, medicinal, moralising or catechetical summaries. Some of these texts were read by a large audience in different strata of medieval society and were copied, adapted and even translated into the vernacular during the entire 14th and 15th centuries. Their popularity is proved by the high number of surviving manuscripts. Since they were gradually spreading, initially to elite centres of learning, but later also to a larger scope of groups of recipients (parishes, citizens, nobility), the participants of the conference considered them to be an applicable material for the research of communities of their recipients.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0293664