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09:40 to 10:15
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Nicolas Poussin, Les Bergers d'Arcadie (Et in Arcadia ego) (detail), second version, c. 1638, Musée du Louvre Last year's lecture focused on building mental libraries, finding lost works and editing texts. But once the texts and corpora are there, what …
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Nicolas Poussin, Les Bergers d'Arcadie (Et in Arcadia ego) (detail), second version, circa 1638, Musée du Louvre Last year's lecture focused on building mental libraries, finding lost works and editing texts. But once the texts and corpora are there, what …
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Mari's palace being excavated (1937). Aerial view of the French Air Force in the Levant. Mission archéologique de Mari n° 1683b, 1937. As part of the PCEHM program (" Power and written culture in Upper Mesopotamia in the eighteenth century BC "), funded …
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Bust of Janus , marble (Summer Garden, Saint Petersburg). Hugo Meijer is invited by Pr Jean-Jacques Hublin. Abstract What are the origins of war and peace ? Our species, Homo sapiens , presents a remarkable paradox : we are the only species capable of …
10:30 to 12:00
Kyle Harper
The origins of the Justinian plague: From Central Asia to the Mediterranean
Kyle Harper
The origins of the Justinian plague: From Central Asia to the Mediterranean
Guest lecturer
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Left: Mihirakula (r. 515-540), probable victim of the plague; right: Justinian (r. 527-565), who escaped. Kyle Harper has been invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Pr Frantz Grenet. Lecture followed by discussion with Pr Frantz …
17:00 to 18:30
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Abstract The Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Europe underwent profound changes during the late 18 th and early 19 th centuries, before the Ottoman Empire reinvented and rebuilt itself between 1840 and 1880. Contrary to earlier assumptions, this …
16:00 to 16:30
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Abstract The Andalusian family of the Banū Zuhr astounded the Mediaeval world with a lineage of physicians spanning several generations. The family library served as the foundation for erudite medical research, and the manuscript tradition of the Kitāb …
15:30 to 16:00
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Abstract An illustrated page preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has equally attracted and puzzled a number of art historical attempts at interpreting the texts and images found on them. It has been identified as the fragment of an …
14:30 to 15:00
Annabel Gallop
Qur'anic art in Southeast Asia: Localising the Sulawesi Diaspora Geometric Style
Annabel Gallop
Qur'anic art in Southeast Asia: Localising the Sulawesi Diaspora Geometric Style
Symposium
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Abstract Among several literary and scientific works of the Ottoman poet Ahmedi (d. 1413) the Iskendernāme ( Book of Alexander ) is the most celebrated one. More than one hundred manuscripts have survived, which were copied between the fifteenth and …
14:00 to 14:30
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Abstract Among several literary and scientific works of the Ottoman poet Ahmedi (d. 1413) the Iskendernāme ( Book of Alexander ) is the most celebrated one. More than one hundred manuscripts have survived, which were copied between the fifteenth and …
11:30 to 12:00
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Abstract With the launch of the Qalamos portal, the descriptions of more than 40,000 Islamic manuscripts from around 45 institutions in Germany have been made accessible. Supported by the systematic integration of accession data, manuscript annotations …
11:00 to 11:30
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Abstract The early modern period was a pivotal moment in European engagement with the diverse literary traditions of the Islamicate world, and the languages transmitting them. Scholars, collectors, and printers actively sought after manuscripts from these …
09:30 to 10:00
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Punjikent (Tajikistan), detail of a mural painting, circa 740: a Sogdian variation on the theme of Beauty and the Beast (the cursed young girl goes to draw water and encounters the aquatic demon) Pre-Islamic Central Asia produced a large number of texts …
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Jawdath Jabbour
Avicenna at Topkapı. The Avicennian collections in ʿAṭūfī's catalog (1502-1504)
Jawdath Jabbour
Avicenna at Topkapı. The Avicennian collections in ʿAṭūfī's catalog (1502-1504)
Symposium
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Abstract The inventory of books in the library of Bāyazīd II compiled by ʿAṭūfī at the request of the sultan is a major witness to Ottoman cultural history in the sixteenth century. By crossing codicological and textual perspectives, the paper will seek …
14:30 to 15:00
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Abstract Taking into consideration the trials that Mulay Zaydān’s library housed at El Escorial went through in the course of its history, we realise that it does not include all the manuscripts that belonged to the Saʿdian sultan. It should be remembered …
14:00 to 14:30
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Abstract MS Or.5, preserved at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, contains a Safavid Shāhnāme dated Shavvāl 990/ September-October 1582. Included in Angelo Michele Piemontese’s catalogue of Persian manuscripts in Italian libraries (1989), the manuscript, …
11:30 to 12:00
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Abstract This study presents the first comprehensive analysis of a significant Qurʼanic manuscript discovered in the Geniza of the Imām Riḍā shrine in Mashhad, comprising 244 fire-damaged folios. The manuscript's colophon identifies its scribe as Abū ʿAlī …
11:00 to 11:30
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Abstract The study of Medieval bookbinding in the Muslim world has come up against major methodological problems, but faces also (and perhaps because of these problems) a certain scepticism on the part of specialists in manuscript studies. The Escorial …
10:00 to 10:30
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Abstract If we consider the role of the book as a communication tool, an analysis of its different materials and forms can reveal aspects of its use and function. For example, its dimensions and form can influence its mobility, its materials can affect …
09:30 to 10:00
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1848 / Universal Democratic and Social Republic / Le Pacte. Sorrieu, Frédéric , Dessinateur-lithographe / Goldsmid, Marie-Cécile (Citoyenne), Dessinateur-lithographe. Musée Carnavalet, …
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The sex of power
Patrick Boucheron, chair History of power in Western Europe, XIIIth-XVIth century
The sex of power
Patrick Boucheron, chair History of power in Western Europe, XIIIth-XVIth century
Lecture
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Phyllis straddling Aristotle , bronze Aquamanile (late 14th-early 15th century), New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection. This year's lecture extends and clarifies the inquiry into " politiques de l'amour ", which attempts to …
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