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Making the Past Present: Illustrations in Early Modern France

Thursday, March 31, 2022, 10:00am - 12:00pm
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Houghton Library-Medieval Studies Workshop in Early Book History presents a hands-on workshop by Anne D. Hedeman on "Making the Past Present: Illustrations in Early Modern France" at Houghton Library.

Anne D. Hedeman is the Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Kansas. Participants in the workshops will explore how illustrations interacted with their texts in manuscripts and early printed books in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. These new visual cycles reshape established Latin texts, French translations from Latin, and new French texts and create new horizons of expectations for their reception.

The workshop is repeated twice on Thursday, March 31st, from 10am-noon, and 2-4pm. Please register for one session only. This is the listing for the morning session. Go here to sign-up for the afternoon workshop. 

Location: Houghton Library, Hofer Classroom. Participants meet in lobby of the library. 

Persons with disabilities who would like to request accommodations or have questions about physical access may contact Houghton Library's Administrative Coordinator Le Huong Huynh by email or at 617-495-2443 in advance of the workshop.

Image: Detail of John the Evangelist writing his Gospel. Book of hours (use of Paris). France, ca. 1420-1425. MS Richardson 42, f. 12r. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

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