Scribal culture in Italy, 1450-1650

在过去的一代人中，一场革命改变了我们对近代早期文化传播的理解。它始于对印刷书籍历史的新方法的发展，但现在已经超越了印刷，展示了手稿的持续重要性，一直持续到所谓的古登堡时代。意大利的研究在这项研究中发挥了主导作用。然而，尽管我们对经文文化的个别方面进行了精细的研究，但并没有感觉到所有这些都是一个更大的现象的一部分。相比之下，我们的项目有三个相互关联的目标。1)了解和分析专业和业余抄写活动--不同社会阶层手写文本的制作、分发、接收和使用--这是一种可称为抄写文化的现象的一部分，并阐明其与印刷和口头文化的关系。2)通过培养对文本文化的物质本质的反思，重建写作和阅读手稿的体验感。3)寻求诗歌、论文和通讯等不同文献制作之间的联系和连续性。该项目汇集了来自不同学科(包括文学史、文化史和目录学)的国际学者以及图书馆员、古代学家和策展人。该项目包括六个讲习班，涵盖范围广泛的领域：1)手稿的材料生产及其国内或公共环境；2)诗歌、戏剧和音乐；3)科学、医学和哲学；4)手稿的社会影响和传播；5)手稿与印刷品的关系；6)手稿的在线编目。所有工作坊面向对文艺复兴文化有广泛兴趣的学者、图书馆馆长、馆长和研究生。我们还打算展示手稿或手工艺品的实际例子。为此，每个讲习班都包括学者和图书管理员/馆长，并在馆藏或图书馆举办。这些研讨会将通过一个网站进行协调、宣传和全面介绍。计划在《意大利研究》杂志上根据选定的论文发表文章。该项目将作为一个更大项目的跳板，其目标包括：组织一次国际会议；根据会议论文出版一份或多份论文；开发研究意大利语手稿的在线资源；大英图书馆政治手稿的编目。为了帮助我们为这些目标进行规划，我们在讲习班上纳入了两个研究中心的演讲，这两个研究中心目前都是由AHRC资助的，用于研究英语手稿：生活与信件编辑中心(玛丽王后，伦敦大学)和手稿：中世纪和早期现代手稿在线研究中心(剑桥大学)。我们包括《基本法》目录的范围确定项目；结果将在研讨会6上介绍。研讨会将在四个城市的六个中心举行。研讨会1：物质文化与手稿的制作维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆，伦敦研讨会2：诗歌、戏剧和音乐研讨会3：科学、医学和哲学惠康图书馆，伦敦研讨会4：手稿研究中心，Bodleian图书馆，牛津研讨会5：手稿和印刷品约翰·里兰兹大学图书馆，曼彻斯特研讨会6：编目政治和其他手稿，伦敦。

Over the last generation, a revolution has changed our understanding of the transmission of culture in the early modern period. It began with the development of new approaches to the history of the printed book, but has now moved beyond the press to show the continued importance of manuscripts well into the so-called 'Age of Gutenberg'. Italian studies have played a leading part in this research.Yet, while we have fine studies of individual aspects of scribal culture, there is no sense that all were part of a larger phenomenon. By contrast, our project has three interconnecting aims. 1) To understand and analyse professional and amateur scribal activities - the production, distribution, reception and uses of handwritten texts at different social levels - as part of a phenomenon that can be termed scribal culture, and to shed light on its relationship to print and oral culture. 2) To recreate a sense of the experiences of writing and reading manuscripts, by fostering reflection on the material nature of textual culture. 3) To seek the contacts and continuities between the production of such different documents as poetry, treatises and newsletters.This project brings together international scholars from different disciplines (including literary history, cultural history and bibliography) together with librarians, palaeographers and curators. Another objective is to stimulate dialogue and collaboration between British and Italian scholarship.The project consists of six workshops covering a wide range of fields: 1) the material production of manuscripts and its domestic or public settings; 2) poetry, theatre and music; 3) science, medicine and philosophy; 4) the social impact and diffusion of manuscripts; 5) the relationship between manuscript and print; 6) the online cataloguing of manuscripts. All workshops are intended for academics, librarians, curators and postgraduates with interests in Renaissance culture in a broad sense.We also intend to display practical examples of manuscripts or artefacts. For this reason, each workshop includes academics and librarians/curators and is staged in a collection or library. The workshops will be co-ordinated, advertised and fully described through a website. It is planned to publish articles based on selected papers in the journal Italian Studies.The project will act as the springboard for a larger project whose aims include: the organization of an international conference; one or more publications of essays based on conference papers; the development of an online resource for the study of Italian manuscripts; the cataloguing of political manuscripts in the British Library. To help us to plan for these objectives, we have included in the workshops presentations from two research centres, both currently funded by the AHRC for the study of English manuscripts: the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (Queen Mary, University of London), and Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online (University of Cambridge). We include a scoping project for the BL catalogue; results are to be presented at workshop 6.The workshops will be held in six centres in four cities. They will be hosted by museums and libraries so that they are partly focused around the exploration of material evidence relating to the production or circulation of manuscripts, ranging from authorial to secretarially reproduced documents and to instruments for writing.Workshop 1: Material culture and the production of manuscriptsVictoria & Albert Museum, LondonWorkshop 2: Poetry, theatre and musicWren Library, Trinity College, CambridgeWorkshop 3: Science, medicine and philosophyWellcome Library, LondonWorkshop 4: The impact and diffusion of manuscriptsCentre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Library, OxfordWorkshop 5: Manuscript and printJohn Rylands University Library, Manchester Workshop 6: Cataloguing political and other manuscripts British Library, London.