American Academy in Rome
Tuesday, 7 January 2020, 6:00pm

David T. Gura will give the opening lecture for the University of Notre Dame Winter School in Latin Paleography and Codicology, which will be held at the Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway campus from 7–17 January 2020. In collaboration with the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV), the course introduces participants to various aspects of Latin Paleography and Western Codicology, offering a balance of theoretical and practical applications. Gura's lecture will address the medieval reception of Ovid's Metamorphoses and its manuscript context.

David T. Gura is curator of Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts in the Hesburgh Library at the University of Notre Dame and associate professor of paleography in Notre Dame's Medieval Institute.

The lecture will be held in English. You can watch it livestreamed at https://livestream.com/aarome.

Please note: valid photo ID is required for entry into the American Academy in Rome. Backpacks and luggage with dimensions larger than cm 40 x 35 x 15 (inches 16 x 14 x 6) are not permitted on the property. There are no locker facilities available.

Medieval Metamorphoses: A Workshop on Ovid and Medieval Commentary Culture.

20-22 March 2019 at the Svenska Institutet I Rom:

Program:

Wednesday 20 March

14:00: Opening remarks

Session 1: 14:00-16:00

 Frank T. Coulson, “Cataloguing the Manuscripts of Latin Commentaries on theMetamorphoses: Problems and Pespectives”

 Robin Böckerman, “The Metamorphoses and the Twelfth Century”

 David T. Gura, “The Auctor iste Commentator and Ovid's Metamorphoses”

BREAK

Session 2: 16:30-18:30

 Marek Thue Kretschmer, “Explanations of the Theban Narrative in the Ovide moralisé and the Ovidius moralizatus”

 Pablo Piqueras Yagüe, “The Order of the Fables in the Ovidius moralizatus”

 Irene Salvo Garcia, “Commentary Tradition and Cultural Heritage: the Classical Past in Vernacular Languages”

RECEPTION

Thursday 21 March

Session 3: 10:00-12:00

 Margareta Fredborg, “Ovidian Quotations in Twelfth-Century Horatian Commentaries”

Lisa Ciccone, “Reading the auctores to Become a Poet: the Role of Fourteenth-Century Commentaries on Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Horace’s Ars poetica”

 William Little, “What Commentaries on the Epistula Sapphus Tell Us About Humanist Attitudes Toward Ovid and Sappho

LUNCH

Session 4: 14:00-16:00

 Eric Cullhed, “Beauty in Homeric Exegesis”

 Pádraic Moran, “Glossing Ovid in Ninth-Century Irish and Welsh Manuscripts”

 Marjorie Curry Woods, “Owning Earlier Literatures”

BREAK
16:30-18:00: Panel discussion 1: Research update

DINNER

Friday 22 March

10:00-11:00: Text seminar 1: “Quidam philosophi fuerunt: Ovid and Philosophical Explanations in the Commentaries”

11:00-12:00: Panel discussion 2: Editorial challenges: a micro workshop LUNCH

13:00-14:00: Text seminar 2: Marjorie Curry Woods, “Evidence of performance in the Medieval Classroom: A Discussion of ‘Boys Performing Girls (and Men)’”

14:00-15:00: Panel discussion 3: Strategies for the future 15:00 Concluding remarks

Participants:

Robin Wahlsten Böckerman, Stockholm University/University of Southern Denmark
Lisa Ciccone, University of Zurich
Frank T. Coulson, The Ohio State Unversity
Eric Cullhed, Uppsala University
Margareta Fredborg, Copenhagen
Irene Salvo Garcia, University of Southern Denmark
David T. Gura, University of Notre Dame
Marek Thue Kretschmer, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
William Little, The Ohio State University
Pádraic Moran, National University of Ireland, Galway
Marjorie Curry Woods, The University of Texas at Austin
Pablo Piqueras Yagüe, Universidad de Murcia

Organiser: Robin Wahlsten Böckerman, Stockholm University/University of Southern Denmark For more information contact the organiser at rwb [at] su [dot] se.

Sessions 1-4 are open to the public. If you are interested in attending, please notify the organiser": rwb [at] su [dot] se.