Manuscript Studies Interest Group
Papers and Case Studies
The Manuscript Studies Interest Group aims to bring together faculty, graduate students, librarians/curators, fellows/visiting scholars, and...
EIHS Lecture: Memories of Iconoclasm and Violence in Indigenous Accounts of the “Conquest” of Mexico
Lisa Sousa (Occidental College)
The history of the conquest of Mexico has often been told from the perspective of Spanish conquerors, but indigenous accounts reveal a...
Winter 2024 MEMS Lecture. Since Time Immemorial: Managing Difference through Custom from Medieval Iberia to Colonial Mexico
Yanna Yannakakis, Emory Univerisity
My talk explores the relationship between custom and empire by connecting elite strategies for managing difference in medieval Iberia’s...
The Premodern Colloquium. Contingent Touch: Sensual Encounters in a Late Medieval Health Manuscript
Tina Bawden, U-M History of Art; Susanne Huber, History of Art, Bremen University
The Premodern Colloquium is a faculty and graduate-student discussion group, now in its forty-fifth year of continuous activity. We meet...
Manuscript Studies Interest Group
Collection visit
The Manuscript Studies Interest Group aims to bring together faculty, graduate students, librarians/curators, fellows/visiting scholars, and...